Risk factors
See Risk_Factors_Identified_by_Pro-Choice_Sources
Four Types of Women
According to Philip Ney, from a clinical perspective there are four groups of women having abortion:
- Tough and committed. Those who insist that abortion is a woman’s right.
- Vulnerable. Those who are basically unstable who are pushed into a definable mental illness by the trauma of abortion.
- Sensitive. Those who are reasonably mentally healthy but because of their sensitivities, they are deeply hurt by having an abortion and develop psychiatric symptoms which a researcher defines as an illness.
- Resilient. Those who choose abortion as the least worst alternative and don’t appear to be affected for years until poor health or stressful circumstance undermine their ego defenses.