"considering the aftermath" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It implies that someone is reflecting on or contemplating the consequences of an event or situation. For example: "I am considering the aftermath of my decision to end the relationship before I decide if I made the right choice."
Consider the aftermath of a recent settlement in a lawsuit against Amtrak.
To illustrate how robotic mapping works — and doesn't work — Leonard considers the aftermath of a hypothetical accident.
They added, though, that the United States Supreme Court should use the Montana case to consider the aftermath of Citizens United.
Over somber, unhurried, minor-key vamps, most of the rappers consider the aftermath of success in a man's world: pressure, egomania, shattered friendships, constant challenges.
She also more briefly considers the aftermath of that tragedy; Byron's death in Greece in 1824; the later lives of the remaining figures; and, finally, the struggle over the legacies of Shelley and Byron waged by Hunt and other memoirists.
"People Without History," written by Mr. Maxwell and directed by Brian Mendes, considers the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, in which the forces of the Lancastrian king, Henry, defeated a rebel army.
He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate.
In "Apple of My Eye," a minor-key new wave song recalling the Cure, he considers the aftermath of youthful excess: They wildin' try to find theyself And by the time they do they barely have nobody left... over Feelin' empty and alone, cuz the youth is gone The thrill has been killed so let the truth be told.
