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the sinfulness of their actions. Nevertheless, the sin of abortion is so serious that the impediment to freedom would have to be quite severe in proportion to the gravity of the sin. As Christ’s representative on earth, the Catholic Church has the responsibility of conveying truthfully the gravity and seriousness of the direct killing of an innocent and defenseless human being by abortion. It is for this reason the Church considers it the preeminent moral issue confronting the world today. 8 Post Abortion Syndrome Abortion victimizes women too. As we have seen with other effects of the Sexual Revolution, those who abortion supposedly liberated — women — are actually terribly hurt by it. Some of the earliest American champions of women’s rights realized the true beneficiaries of abortion (known then as child-murder) were men, not women. Susan B. Anthony wrote of abortion in 1869: “No matter what the motive: love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.” [Emphasis added] Abortion is the murder of an innocent human being, just like the first murder of Abel by his brother Cain. Cain and Abel by Nicolas Beatrizet (1544). © Sophia Institute for Teachers Unit 5, Chapter 13: Abortion 291
There is a proven negative impact on the mental health of a large number of women who have had abortions. Woman in Bed by József Rippl-Rónai (1891). As Anthony suspected, many women who have had abortions suffer from depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges after doing so. Pro-abortion advocates argue that there is not sufficient evidence to prove that abortion causes an increase in mental health problems compared with women in the general population and those who brought their pregnancies to term. A large 2011 statistical study of 750,000 women, however, found the following 9 : ■ Abortion produces an 81% higher risk of mental health problems in women. ■ There is a 4.1 times greater likelihood of suicides in women who have an abortion compared with those who did not. ■ There is a 2.5 times greater likelihood of suicidal behaviors in women having abortions than those who did not. ■ There is a 2.1 times greater likelihood of alcohol abuse in women having an abortion than those who did not. ■ There is a 1.4 times greater likelihood in the occurrence of depression in women having an abortion than those who did not. ■ There is a 1.3 times greater likelihood in the occurrence of anxiety in women having an abortion than those who did not. 292 Apologetics II: Challenges of the Modern World © Magis Center
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