Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counseled on the possible risk to their mental health. This overturns the consensus that has stood for decades that the risk to mental health of continuing with an unwanted pregnancy outweighs the risks of living with the possible regrets of having an abortion. Read the rest of the story here, here, and here.
Editor: The Royal College would be on a par with the American College of Ob/Gyns, which will be weighing in on whether ethics requires a doctor to perform or refer for an abortion.
Comment: Does this seem odd to anyone else? Society expects a woman who aborts to have the abortion procedure done and then to walk away from it as if nothing life-changing had occured, even though her child's life has just been ended. Yet, if a woman were to have given birth to the child and the child died after birth, society would be concerned about her "mental health", and if she did not grieve for that baby, she would be considered cold-hearted and uncaring.
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