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Women Who Have Abortions Experience Post-Traumatic Stress
LifeNews.com ^ | February 13, 2008 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 02/13/2008 10:26:43 PM PST by SErtelt

by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 13, 2008

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new study published in the journal BMC Psychiatry finds that women who have abortions typically experience high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder. The findings mirror other research reports showing women are more likely to suffer mental health issues following abortions compared with keeping the baby.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; postabortivewomen; prolife; women
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1 posted on 02/13/2008 10:27:00 PM PST by SErtelt
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To: SErtelt

Not only that, but their kids are dead.

adn even if they’re not, they will be if Barack the Baby Killer has his way.


2 posted on 02/13/2008 10:30:14 PM PST by TBP
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To: SErtelt

Abortion offices never warn the women of this before hand, however, even though the after effects have been known for many years. It’s either political correctness or the fact that Planned Parenthood gets a significant part of its revenues form abortions.


3 posted on 02/13/2008 10:33:21 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SErtelt

And those women that have gone through this and are reading it right now let me tell you something. God forgave you the moment you asked. He Loves you still and has forgiven you fully. The enemy is the one that is taunting you with the feelings of shame. Reject those and fall fully in the mercy of your Fathers Grace. If you are still having trouble being released from that Freep mail me.

Walkingfeather.


4 posted on 02/13/2008 10:39:22 PM PST by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: SErtelt

No sh**, and that pain of scar will stay with them till they (and the man die)


5 posted on 02/13/2008 10:41:04 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: TBP
Pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of America to a mindset of life!

6 posted on 02/13/2008 10:49:51 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: TBP

Vote pro-life. McCain isn’t the best, but he’s a lot better than anyone else in the national election.


7 posted on 02/13/2008 10:50:32 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: SErtelt

Well, Duh!
Kill your baby and you are bound to have stress.
How the hell can they do it???


8 posted on 02/13/2008 10:54:26 PM PST by Bobalu (I guess I done see'd that varmint for the last time....)
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To: SErtelt

That’s not a disorder, it’s a guilty conscience.


9 posted on 02/13/2008 11:10:51 PM PST by donna (Hillary prediction: She will get prostate problems and withdraw her candidacy.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Abortion offices never warn the women of this before hand

Just like they never teach children the health hazards of homosexual relationships as they cram the sexual diversity message down their throats..

10 posted on 02/13/2008 11:16:20 PM PST by Wil H
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To: SErtelt; Coleus; Salvation
Postnatal depression in Southern Brazil: prevalence and its demographic and socioeconomic determinants

Comparison of pain, cortisol levels, and psychological distress in women undergoing surgical termination of pregnancy under local anaesthesia versus intravenous sedation.

BMC Psychiatry is an open access journal...

SErtelt, if it wasn't one of the first two links, could you link the original article?

11 posted on 02/13/2008 11:39:16 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: SErtelt
People have no idea how badly either and this is based on just one abortion. You can only imagine the devastation when one has more than one and 'wakes up' to this.

It is akin to realizing one has killed as many people as they have aborted and did it for no damn reason, but complete and utter selfishness. It is a living hell literally. What woman kills her own child much less several of them? There are more women then reported too that years later try to have children and can not. Can one imagine all that they have in replacement for this hoped for child is the memories of their own earlier children that they choose to kill.

This is where God comes in and in my opinion is the only true healing from abortion, but one must ask for forgiveness. God is great and forgiving even of murders if they repent and ask forgiveness.

So much work to do here. So very much work. As long as Roe v. Wade exists murder is legal in the US and the men and women who kill do suffer--especially the women as they age. Of course no liberal will a test to this. Glad this study was done.

People have no idea of the hidden agony and suffering that is going on with several generations of women.

12 posted on 02/13/2008 11:46:01 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Wil H

I think you see a theme. Choice and consequence, and which is more important? So many things the liberals believe in have clearly negative consequences, but refuse to even consider because “choice” is all-important.


13 posted on 02/13/2008 11:48:29 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SErtelt

Pretty sad.

I think that a lot of young women who find themselves in dire straights are led down this path by evil people. I don’t condone their decision, but I do pity their “choice”.

It’s too bad more young women don’t choose the option of carrying their children to term and making them available to loving families who would adopt them and love them as their own.

I think many of the people who counsel for abortion are basically wicked. Likewise, I think the mushmouths who state that it is a “personal decision” and that they have no say in the matter are pretty lame, too.

In addition to being spiritually evil, killing one’s own children is a perversion of natural law. It’s against our basic instinct as animals. They’re are bound to be negative effects from such horrendous decisions.


14 posted on 02/14/2008 12:14:07 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio,")
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To: SErtelt

Wow!

Check out this testimony under O’Reilly:

www.myspace.com/silentnomoreawareness

Takes your breath away!


15 posted on 02/14/2008 12:36:19 AM PST by incredulous joe ("Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio,")
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To: Walkingfeather

Thank you so much for sharing this, it is the truth.


16 posted on 02/14/2008 3:12:36 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: SErtelt

I quite agree with the posts about guilt and morality, but social studies like this can be easily flawed. It is likely that the two groups in question, women who have abortions .vs. women who give birth, are different in many other ways. It is quite possible that many types of problems are more common in those who choose to have abortions.


17 posted on 02/14/2008 3:56:27 AM PST by conejo99
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God is great and forgiving even of murders if they repent and ask forgiveness.

You are quite right. But I've heard women talk about their 'mistake' and asking God for forgiveness.

I don't think repenting of a 'mistake' results in God forgiving the murder of their offspring.

These women must repent of the murder of their child in order to be forgiven by God for the murder of their child.

18 posted on 02/14/2008 4:50:39 AM PST by Lester Moore (The headwaters of the islamic river of death and hate originate in Saudi Arabia)
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To: SErtelt

It goes above and beyond all of the pros and cons of abortion. It goes to one’s very soul. Just because a women has been given the right to have an abortion by their government, doesn’t absolve the their actions spiritually.

What is interesting, is that it doesn’t seem to matter whether you were an enlightened feminist, an atheist or a practicing Christian. The guilt and remorse seems to grow over time.

If the pro-baby killers really were concerned about the women, they would make it their first priority to give them all of the options and all of the information.

Many childless couples would love to have a chance to adopt a baby. This article acts like there are only two options.

It should be the woman’s right to choose. They could choose not to engage in sexual behavior that leads to pregnancy. If they have children they could choose to have their tubes tied. They could choose to use more than one method of birth control to ensure that they won’t get pregnant. They could choose to give the baby up for adoption, they could choose to keep the baby.

No one has the right to give a women the choice to have their baby murdered.

Less than one percent of the abortions each year are done to save the mother’s life or because the women was raped or the baby was terribly handicapped.

The rest of the abortions are for the convience of the women. A result of bad choices. No baby should be killed because their mother made bad choices.


19 posted on 02/14/2008 5:37:20 AM PST by ODDITHER
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Children need to be indocrinated with the fact that abortion is the killing of an innocent life. It’s not just a ‘choice.’

At that moment, it might seem like an easy way out for a young woman, but living with it might not be so easy.


20 posted on 02/14/2008 5:38:29 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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