Below is a petition to U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Dan Lipinski (IL-. 03),  Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-life Caucus, asking for congressional hearings on the issue of abortion and mental health.

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Dear Honorable Chris Smith and Honorable Dan Lipiniski,

Twenty-two years ago, Surgeon General Koop recommended a national longitudinal study of abortion’s effects on women’s psychological and physical health.  That study was never done.

In early September of this year, the British Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, published a review of the literature including a meta-analysis of 22 studies including nearly 900,000 women.   It revealed that women who had abortions 81 percent more likely to experience mental health problems compared to all other control groups, and 55 percent more likely to have problems compared to women who delivered an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.

Another recent literature review, by the American Psychiatric Association identified at least 15 risk factors which identify which women are more susceptibility to more mental health problems after an abortion.   These include feeling pressured to abort, a history of already having had one or more abortions, ambivalence about the abortion decision, having a pregnancy that is wanted or meaningful, prior mental health problems and more.

But Planned Parenthood and other groups receiving federal funds oppose screening abortion patients for these known risk factors. Moreover, they continue to tell both patients and the public that abortion poses no mental health risks for women.

http://afterabortion.org/sign-this-petition-for-congressional-hearings-on-abortion-and-mental-health/