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A New Zealand study that tracked young women from birth to 25 years of age found that young women who had abortions were significantly more likely to experience subsequent depression, suicidal behavior and substance abuse, even after the researchers controlled for previous mental health problems.

"Taken all together, these studies show that the mental health effects of abortion don't stop with women," Reardon said. "They will impact their families, too."

In other words, a woman's "choice" to commit infanticide has negative consequences for everyone around her.

1 posted on 03/13/2007 4:00:41 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 03/13/2007 4:01:26 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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3 posted on 03/13/2007 4:01:58 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Subconsciously or consciously they take out their wrath on kids because of their own self hatred.


4 posted on 03/13/2007 4:03:20 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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Isn't abortion the ultimate in "child abuse"? I mean, can it get any worse than killing the child. What the article should have said is that child abuse doesn't stop after abortion but I guess that would be too politically incorrect.
5 posted on 03/13/2007 4:06:15 PM PDT by Shannon
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So, if a woman willing submits to having a doctor kill her unborn child by ripping it limb from limb or somne equally violent form of death, that same woman is more apt to abuse children she later actually delivers?

...well, duh!

Lots of rocket science involved in the deductive reasoning to figure that out. [/sacasm]

6 posted on 03/13/2007 4:06:54 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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So, if a woman willing submits to having a doctor kill her unborn child by ripping it limb from limb or somne equally violent form of death, that same woman is more apt to abuse children she later actually delivers?

...well, duh!

Lots of rocket science involved in the deductive reasoning to figure that out. [/sarcasm]

7 posted on 03/13/2007 4:07:03 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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ABORTION IS THE PINNACLE OF CHILD ABUSE.

Having done that, every other form of abuse seems minor.


8 posted on 03/13/2007 4:07:55 PM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( ISLAMA DELENDA EST!)
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This study is mind boggling. This is further proof that the psychological effects of abortion have not been examined thoroughly enough. This should be required reading for prospective mothers who think they may want to choose to abort.


10 posted on 03/13/2007 4:19:13 PM PDT by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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Once a person crosses that line in the sand and lives with it, everything on the other side of the line they cross is now their new norm. It is done.

It has to be hard to turn back and hard to forget. No wonder that it impacts their life, even if they have done their best to forget and are repulsed by their decision.


11 posted on 03/13/2007 4:27:27 PM PDT by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
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This is a totally invalid use of the cause and effect argument..

The argument should read that victims of child abuse or spousal abuse, alcoholism, etc, are far more likely to get an abortion..
Just as they are more likely to commit abusive acts themselves..

Their entire experience has already been one of cheapening the value of life.
The very act of conception was probably an abusive and repugnant incident and, by extension, so too would the birth be unwanted and resented..
Why stop at abortion ?

The researchers obviously failed to control for personal bias..

12 posted on 03/13/2007 4:41:49 PM PDT by Drammach ("If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." -- Benjamin Franklin)
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Priscilla Coleman, a professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State University and lead author of the study, suggested that the link between abortion and child abuse may be influenced by a number of key factors, including unresolved grief, having felt pressured into an unwanted abortion, and disruption in maternal bonding with subsequently born children. How about "certifying a license to murder children goes in line with a certifying to abuse them" wicked rationalizing clinic mengele cursed generation
14 posted on 03/13/2007 4:53:19 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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Priscilla Coleman, a professor of human development and family studies at Bowling Green State University and lead author of the study, suggested that the link between abortion and child abuse may be influenced by a number of key factors, including unresolved grief, having felt pressured into an unwanted abortion, and disruption in maternal bonding with subsequently born children.

How about "certifying a license to murder children goes in line with a certifying to abuse them"

wicked rationalizing clinic mengele cursed generation

15 posted on 03/13/2007 4:54:58 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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Abortion is the ultimate child abuse. But it's no surprise that someone who would kill one of her own offspring, wouldn't think twice about abusing the rest.


17 posted on 03/13/2007 5:07:49 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Gosh, I'm just so surprised. < /s> After all, when the feminazis were campaigning for abortion rights, their mantra was "every child a wanted child." That is, if we let women kill the kids they didn't want, they'd be sure to treat the surviving children well and the incidence of child abuse and neglect would be lowered. Somehow it didn't quite work out that way, did it?


18 posted on 03/13/2007 5:45:36 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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the first step to have either the abortion or to abuse a child is to have the mindset that children are inconvenient burdens that do nothing but mess up the lives of women and "hold them back"

Unfortunately this is a mindset that is shared by millions of Americans whether they have abortions or not - abuse kids or not.

When children are valued again - when their true worthiness is restored to the pedestal where it belongs...that will help.

Until then we're going to keep reading painfully obvious articles like this one.


20 posted on 03/13/2007 6:30:11 PM PDT by Scotswife
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but according to NARAL wasn't legal abortion supposed to be a remedy for child and spousal abuse? That was their biggest selling point in and around 1970 wasn't it? I guess 45 million just isn't enough , maybe 55 million will be the magic number when we start to see their predicted results... /s


21 posted on 03/13/2007 7:23:33 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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There was a study that tracked women a year after childbirth and abortions. It was done by STAKES, and it found that women were four times more likely to die in the following year if they had an abortion as opposed to giving birth. Here's part of the study and a link to the rest.

New Studies Unmask High Maternal Death Rates From Abortion

David C. Reardon, Ph.D.

"Abortion advocates, relying on inaccurate maternal death data in the United States, routinely claim that a woman's risk of dying from childbirth is six, ten, or even twelve times higher than the risk of death from abortion.

In contrast, abortion critics have long contended that the statistics relied upon for maternal mortality calculations have been distorted and that the broader claim that "abortion is many times safer than childbirth" completely ignores high rates of other physical and psychological complications associated with abortion. Now a recent, unimpeachable study of pregnancy-associated deaths in Finland has shown that the risk of dying within a year after an abortion is several times higher than the risk of dying after miscarriage or childbirth.(1)

This well-designed record-based study is from STAKES, the statistical analysis unit of Finland's National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health. In an effort to evaluate the accuracy of maternal death reports, STAKES researchers pulled the death certificate records for all the women of reproductive age (15-49) who died between 1987 and 1994--a total of 9,192 women. They then culled through the national health care data base to identify any pregnancy-related events for each of these women in the 12 months prior to their deaths. "

full article: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/SFL/fourtimes.htm


22 posted on 03/14/2007 1:04:58 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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This is shocking! Simply beyond comprehension! A woman that mercilessly, dismembers and sucks her unborn baby into a sink is more likely to abuse children she "choses" to have?

Wow. That's such a real stretch!

23 posted on 03/14/2007 3:40:53 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Avg price, REGULAR gas, $3.09/gallon in San Diego.)
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"A history of abortion is associated with more frequent acts of physical aggression toward subsequent children, according to a new study published in the Internet Journal of Pediatrics and Neonatology."

But don't mind us, we're just ignorant rednecks that are opposed to science, unlike liberals (You don't think this story will appear on DU, do you? Didn't think so.)


24 posted on 03/14/2007 5:09:23 AM PDT by NavySon (Liberals: oxymorons personified.)
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DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH!
Abortion IS child abuse.
The leftist feminazis will try to suppress this!


33 posted on 03/14/2007 8:49:44 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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