Well, what about Post-Abortion Syndrome?
It has been proven that eleventy billion percent of women who have abortions are depressed and shit afterwards!” I’m going to go ahead and respond to this in stages. First of all, it has been nowhere near proven—and in fact, very nearly disproven—that Post-Abortion Syndrome exists. People get depressed for lots of reasons, including lots of pregnant women who don’t get abortions and get depressed after having the baby, which would seem to indicate that there is chemical shit going on in pregnancy that’s likely to make you depressed either way. Secondly, since there is high correlation between abortion and unplanned pregnancy, and also high correlation between unplanned pregnancy and depression (because people with bipolar disorder or clinical depression tend to engage in risky behavior more often than the general population), it is very likely depression that’s indirectly leading to abortion, rather than the other way around. So that’s two post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies on your pa
