"Silent No More" Leaders Praise House of Representatives for Urging More Study of Abortion’s Affect on Mental Health 

Staten Island, NY – Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation’s largest network of women and men testifying to the harm they've endured from abortion, today praised a House legislative amendment urging federal agencies to study the psychological consequences of abortion.  The measure that was amended, HR 20, originally included only a request to study postpartum depression.

"To study only the psychological problems that may occur after childbirth betrays blindness to the devastating emotional impact abortion can have on women," said Janet Morana, co-founder of the SNMAC. "Post-abortion disorders are at least as serious as postpartum depression and can last much longer."

"To emphasize the problems of giving birth and remain silent about the problems associated with abortion is to give the false impression that there are only harmful psychological consequences if you give birth," added Georgette Forney, also a co-founder of SNMAC.  "While the amendment doesn't guarantee that the government will study post-abortion disorders, it at least reminds researchers that women are suffering serious problems associated with abortion that need attention."