I have had surgery once in my life - and it was just a minor dental procedure - but before we went into the surgery, my dentist told me every possible side effect of the surgery. By the time the dentist finished talking, I was pretty sure I was going to die in surgery, yet when a woman goes into an abortion, what do they tell her? "It won’t hurt," "You will be fine" and so on. This leads us to ask the question: Is abortion really that safe or are women not getting the whole truth?

The answer is the latter. In reality, there are plenty of things we are not told about abortion. Below are just a few:

1. When a woman has an abortion, she is 3.5 times more likely to die within a year than a woman who carries to full-term (learn more here).

2. A meta-analysis done by Dr. Yubei Huang et. Al. shows that after an abortion, a woman’s chance of getting breast cancer is raised by 44% and she is 2.3 times more likely to get cervical cancer, compared to women with no history of abortion (learn more here and here).

3. Women who have an abortion are 30% more likely to be infertile in the future and are more likely to miscarry (learn more here).

4. Women who have an abortion are six times more likely to commit suicide than women who carry to full-term and three times more likely to commit suicide than the general populace (learn more here and here).

5. Teen girls who have an abortion are ten times more likely to commit suicide than teens who don’t have an abortion and a teen can have an abortion without ever telling her parents (learn more here and here and here).

6. About 45% of women who have an abortion experience suicidal feelings soon after (learn more here).

7. 40% of women in a UK survey said that they wanted to keep their child, but external pressure influenced their decision (learn more here).

8. 2 out of every 3 women who have a late abortion [after 12 weeks] suffer from PTSD, which is what many soldiers are diagnosed with after active service (learn more here).

9. The British Journal of Psychiatry found that risk of mental trauma increased 81% after abortion (learn more here and here).

10. A woman who has an abortion is 110% more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs (learn more here).

But why don't the clinics that provide abortions, such as Planned Parenthood, tell us these facts? If abortion is just a medical procedure and clinics like Planned Parenthood are simply providing medical services to these women, then why are women not fully informed? Because Planned Parenthood isn't a friend who is there to lend a hand when women are in need; it is a business that makes a profit off of women who are in a bad situation. In 2009 planned parenthood made $1,100,800,000 from abortion. Even though the money Planned Parenthood made off of abortions was only 15% of their yearly revenue it was still 2.3 time the amount of money Donald Trump made last year. So, why doesn't this company tell women the whole truth? Because it would be bad for business and, in reality, that's exactly what Planned Parenthood is.

(yearly pay of planned parenthood officials)