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The opposing argument states that women do not have negative psychological effects after an abortion unless the woman or adolescent was forced into and felt that it wasn't her own decision. The opposing side also believes that negative effects occur when a wanted pregnancy is terminated due to it being dangerous towards the mother or because of the fetus being diagnosed with a genetic defect (Fa ndes and Barzelatto,38). Many women do in fact obtain negative effects when this occurs, but it is irrational to say that this is the only way an abortion can reflect on a woman's future. .
In "Abortion and Common Sense" the authors state, "One of the most common misconceptions about abortion is that every woman will undergo shock-waves of remorse, feel guilty and ashamed at what she has done, and forever regret her decision" (Dixon-Mueller and Dagg, 110). Mueller and Dagg even go as far as claiming that it is a misconception to the society. They claim that it is completely false to say that a woman will have any kind of repercussions from simply going through with an abortion. While their claims are substantial and have good reasoning and logic to it I don't think that the evidence fully supports the whole of women that get abortions. Rather than making it public many women keep the aftershock feelings of their abortions to themselves or try to push it away and pretend like it never happened in order to keep it in the past and keep from thinking about it more than they care to. Many women seem fine externally, but are actually battling themselves on the inside and therefore do not go and so to say "brag" about their personal experiences with abortion, for many different reasons. Due to that I believe that these claims cannot take women as a whole into account.
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There are three different categories of abortion: spontaneous, elective, or therapeutic (Canário, Figueiredo, Ricou, 262).
