Emotional Aspects of a Pregnant Teens Abortion

Preg­nant teens abor­tion are vul­ner­a­ble to injury result­ing in death because of their like­li­hood not to inform their par­ents of any phys­i­cal com­pli­ca­tions that may arise.Apart from sui­ci­dal ten­den­cies preg­nant teens that undergo abor­tions undergo seri­ous men­tal dis­or­ders and are more likely than oth­ers in their age group to become insane and be admit­ted to asylums.

After the first trimester or 12 weeks of preg­nancy partial-birth abortive symp­toms may develop that would threaten the health and even the health of the young mother. Among the late show­ing up med­ical con­di­tions are heart fail­ure, severe dia­betes that often can­not be con­trolled, renal prob­lem, high blood pres­sure (hyper­ten­sion) that can­not be checked in preg­nant teens abor­tion and acute depression.

Unwanted or ‘com­pul­sory preg­nancy’ oth­er­wise known as ‘forced moth­er­hood’ may result in the child remain­ing emo­tion­ally dam­aged, be a low achiever, develop juve­nile delin­quency, become crim­i­nals as adults, get addicted to alco­hol and drugs and ulti­mately rely more on wel­fare between the ages of 16 to 21 than their other nor­mal peers. These chil­dren have very poor rela­tion­ships with their par­ents and are vul­ner­a­ble to parental neglect and abuse.

The teenage mother going through alter­na­tives to preg­nant teens devel­ops feel­ings of com­pul­sive grief and regret. Most reli­gions frown upon abor­tion as a sort of mur­der and this leads to abid­ing sense of sin that mod­ern plat­i­tudes can­not eas­ily cure.

Those preg­nant teens that have repeat­edly under­gone abor­tions develop a sort of reli­gious per­se­cu­tion pho­bia about the pun­ish­ment and jus­tice of God. Those who abort in early life have less chances of con­cep­tion later on. This may force them to go through the rest of their lives as this being a kind of punishment.

Teens, des­per­ate to cover their tracks from their moth­ers, may resort to snap judg­ments and hastily decide to abort. Later they are per­se­cuted by feel­ings of regret as basi­cally they wanted to keep the child; they suf­fer from greater post-abortion stress the blame is then passed on to wrong abor­tion counseling.

Teenage par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics have shown that teens who have under­gone abor­tion repeat­edly feel let down by those ped­dling the idea of abor­tion. They turn inwards with a per­se­cu­tion guilt com­plex that might hound them through the rest of their lives.

There are many who are against the con­cept of parental con­sents. Invari­ably they skirt the reli­gious issue that arises out of a feel­ing of being devastated.

Con­sid­er­ing the dam­age done to the teen who has endured preg­nant teen abor­tion the best advice is to get the par­ents involved. In many states if she fails to do so, she should turn to the judge. The lat­ter can then decide if she is mature enough to take the deci­sion. If not the judge takes it for her. In any case there are many social and legal hur­dles for which the pres­ence of the par­ents of the minor is essential.

Before the teenager is allowed to make a hasty deci­sion the cou­ple, together with their par­ents should know all the facts –  the pros and cons of abor­tion, before mak­ing up one’s mind.

The teenager who is faced with a sud­den preg­nancy should know there are three options – going ahead with par­ent­ing, resort­ing to let­ting the child be adopted and lastly endur­ing Preg­nant teens abor­tion.  It is best to remem­ber that the sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure can­not slice away the deep emo­tions rooted in the mind.