Interesting. An extract:
“A 2022 study by Support After Abortion found that more than one-third of men whose partners ended a pregnancy said they wanted the child. In some cases, they were never told until after the abortion had taken place. Others found out only by accident, too late to try and intervene by offering support and promise of care.
These men didn’t walk away from fatherhood; it was shredded from them by a culture and legal system that offered them no place. Their pain often goes unacknowledged, not because it isn’t real, but because it is inconvenient to a narrative that leaves them out.
The emotional toll can be severe. Studies show that 40 percent of men whose partners have abortions experience chronic PTSD even fifteen years later. Eighty-eight percent report grief. Eighty-two percent struggle with guilt. More than 70 percent suffer from anxiety and anger.”
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Interestingly, the study (PDF here) shows roughly equally poor effects on men’s health regardless of whether they were previously anti-life or pro-life.
There have been quite a few small studies around the world on the effect on men. One has to be careful taking statistics from small samples but that is all we have to go by, since governments and global organisations rarely make studies about effects upon men. The fact that most published studies report similar findings suggesting that
abortion is not a benign experience for many men and may pose risks to their mental health.
In Sweden there was – Kero & Lalos (2000), an interview study, of 20 men. They found a range of effects from ambivalence, through suppressed grief, to sexual dysfunction. A later 2004 study is here.
A study in Iran of 125 couples who underwent abortion (yes, it is there too, following the Western takeover) found
A web-based study of 135 men who experienced a partner’s abortion found that 48% opposed the abortion, and 69% reported moderate to very high stress afterward
A 2018 summary of several reports on psychosocial research concentrating on the USA consistently shows that men can experience grief, guilt, anger, anxiety, depression, and even PTSD following a partner’s abortion. (At times even feminists have admitted to that latter, but only in the context of it creating domestic violence, thus blaming the aborted father for his feelings.) The negative feelings are often suppressed or internalized, leading to chronic emotional strain among men.
Even for women, despite the yelling of the very biased APA and WHO, it is clear that while some can abort even happily, most suffer for some time, and some women suffer a lot over a long period of time. For the men ripped of agency in the life of their child, one can really only expect it to be worse.
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