the author reckons that women who procure an abortion also find themselves caught up in the controversial debate on the legality
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advancements in handling emergencies such as rape make emergency contraception a solution to avoid a pregnancy in the initial stages. It therefore beats logic for procuring an abortion in the late stages of a pregnancy on the account of such an emergency. Emotional distress occasioned by procurement of an abortion is perhaps the most disturbing psychological impact that the procedure can cause on a woman. Despite the academic research on the contrary opinion to the effect that post abortion trauma does not exist
it actually does in several ways than thought (Stotland
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which might offer some relieve on the same. Depending on the arguments on either side of the debate
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