It is...in the long term.
Do you mean the psychological impact? While I'm sure there are cases such as what the links in EmperorPalpatine's show, I would like to offer a counter from the origination those websites are citing to give a less bias review than that of a pro-life website which would likely be cherry picking for results.
"The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver that pregnancy. The evidence regarding the relative mental health risks associated with multiple abortions is more equivocal. Positive associations observed between multiple abortions and poorer mental health may be linked to co-occurring risks that predispose a woman to both multiple unwanted pregnancies and mental health problems.
The few published studies that examined womenâs responses following an induced abortion due to fetal abnormality suggest that terminating a wanted pregnancy late in pregnancy due to fetal abnormality appears to be associated with negative psychological reactions equivalent to those experienced by women who miscarry a wanted pregnancy or who experience
a stillbirth or death of a newborn, but less than those who deliver a child with life-threatening abnormalities.
The differing patterns of psychological experiences observed among women who terminate an unplanned pregnancy versus those who terminate a planned and wanted pregnancy highlight the importance of taking pregnancy intendedness and wantedness into account when seeking to understand psychological reactions to abortion.
None of the literature reviewed adequately addressed the prevalence of mental health problems among women in the United States who have had an abortion. In general, however, the prevalence of mental health problems observed among women in the United States who had a single, legal, first-trimester abortion for nontherapeutic reasons was consistent with normative rates of comparable mental health problems in the general population of women in the United States.
Nonetheless, it is clear that some women do experience sadness, grief, and feelings of loss following termination of a pregnancy, and some experience clinically significant disorders, including depression and anxiety. However, the TFMHA reviewed no evidence sufficient to support the claim that an observed association between abortion history and mental health was caused by the abortion per se, as opposed to other factors."
http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/abortion/If you mean the impact from late term abortions, these are not very common and are often done due to a risk factors to the mother or the developing child becomes no longer viable. Either case one would have to forfeit the claim to being for life as we are then speaking of situation where a life will be lost regardless of outcome and to allow the pregnancy to continue could result in the loss of both mother and child.
Speaking of which even with things going well there is a certain risk factor to the mother's life to carry to term. I have to wonder just how pro-life it is to ask that of someone?
Anyways, I think it's pretty clear that with pro-life I meant that, protecting the defenseless "sentient, sapient individual", also known as a human being.
Which doesn't exist yet, it's a life that has the potential to become that. The abortion is done
BEFORE it becomes a sentient, sapient individual.
