Posted on 11/16/2004 11:10:02 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Women who undergo abortions suffer serious psychological problems more frequently than was previously thought, according to a new study.
Published yesterday in the Medical Science Monitor, the study surveyed 331 Russian women and 217 American women who had undergone one or more induced abortions, but who hadn't experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth. Among the study's major findings were:
"This is the first published study to compare reactions to abortion among women in two different countries," said Dr. Vincent Rue, lead author of the study and co-director of the Institute for Pregnancy Loss. "It is also the first to provide a detailed breakdown of traumatic symptoms which the subjects themselves attribute to their abortions. These results will help mental health workers to be better prepared to recognize and treat the psychological complications of abortion."
David C. Reardon, director of the Elliot Institute, was one of four authors of the study. The Elliot Institute has previously conducted numerous studies on the effects of abortion on women.
Increasing concerns over the psychological damage to women who have undergone an abortion prompted Rep. Joe Pitts, R.-Pa., to introduce the "Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act," H. R. 4543, in June. The stated purpose of the proposed law is "to provide for research on, and services for individuals with, post-abortion depression and psychosis." In pursuit of this goal, the bill proposes a congressional appropriation of "$300,000 for each of the fiscal years 2005 through 2009."
If you kill your own child I would hope that you'd have a few emotional problems.
The "blob of tissue" counseling is not adequate. They should start with "you have A BABY growing inside you (not a blob of tissue). In 7 months(or whatever time is left) YOUR BABY will be born. Then YOUR BABY will grow into a child, then a teen, then an adult.
If you choose to abort YOUR BABY, you are taking his/her life. You will be haunted by it for the rest of your life.
Then they should be counseled about adoption or other options that don't take the life of the child.
This is the only way a woman can make a fully informed decision about abortion.
At least most of these women have the conscience to suffer for their sins, and probably don't have the problem of being as self-righteous as you sound to me.
It will be blamed on society
Oh please forgive me for judging those who kill their own children. It's just that the unborn cannot speak for themselves. So if speaking up for them is being self-righteous then I plead guilty.
Any woman who would willingly kill the child that she had a hand in creating can't be in the best mental, emotional, or spiritual health to begin with.
They aren't and abortion exploits that.
I agree. And that's not because I wish the problems upon them, either. It just means they get it, that a death has occurred. One should feel grief at the loss of one's child.
In our pro-abortion, it's your body society, this should come as a wake up to many. Women are told it's not a baby, it's not a human, it's just cells, you have rights. Most accept this at face value, even with nagging questions, because 'it's easier'. So why the grief? I've heard it argued that women feel grief because of the protesters or because of their upbringing, yet in the last 30 yrs these 'stigmas' have vanished or lessened, so what could be causing their grief? Obvious to many of us, their grief occurs because it is a child. And the same million (billion?) dollar abortion industry that relieved them of their child, a child often sold like cars for parts, denies them their grief and abandons them in their need, because that might force them to change their policies or outlooks and, bottom line, that would adversely affect their bottom line.
As a important side note, for women who have psychological problems apres abortion, the Roman Catholic Church has a non-sectarian program, Project Rachel, that offers counseling to anyone who needs it. It can be reached by calling any US Catholic diocese for a local group's info.
Life ping.
Defending the unborn is so politically (gag) incorrect, except that PC is never, ever allowed on FR, at any time.
BTW, one of the ways you can tell a liberal is the MO by which they (1) plead "victimization," (2) take no responsibility for their actions, (3) blame others for their plight, and, (4) expect taxpayers to pick up the bill to extricate them from their troubles.
Ping!
Hmmmm...they have now classified a guilty conscience as a psychological problem...
I am 100% Pro-Life and would love to see Roe v. Wade overturned. I am sick when I see people defending it as a woman's right to choose, but the article was not about that. It was about the effects on women who have already done it. You don't know the whole story about each of the women that suffers today for past sins, so I thank God he hasn't appointed you judge and jury.
Post Traumatic Murder Disorder.
Listen "graceofgod" I did not condemn anyone. While I may not know the whole story of each woman who suffers for having killed her child I do know the whole story of the children who they killed. Their story was short and not so sweet. Perhaps you could share with us under what circumstances we should be understanding of those who kill their children?
The point which I intended to make was to emphasize that what these women did actually was commit murder as opposed to the PC sanitized version of having "terminated an unwanted pregnancy". Perhaps if the these women had they been honest with themselves about what they were doing to begin with they would not have gone through with the procedure.
Maybe what we need to do is legally execute all the so-called doctors doing the actual abortions. They are the one's who rationalize what they do day in and day out, guilty of countless murders, for the sake of money. There is nothing worse.
I'm sure we are on the same side. I just think if the act has been committed in the past, and the woman is suffering, maybe she is close to coming over to our side, and I, for one, would welcome her. I think you would, too.
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