Posted on 12/06/2008 9:53:56 AM PST by wagglebee
Contacts: Janet Morana, 917-297-0946; Georgette Forney, 412-398-7885; both with Silent No More Awareness Campaign
STATEN ISLAND, Ny., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, today criticized a report by Johns Hopkins University researchers that claims there is no link between abortion and mental health issues. The report said efforts to show that psychological distress is higher among post-abortive women "appear to be politically motivated."
"The Johns Hopkins University report's allegation that studies proving the reality of post-abortion depression are politically motivated has to be the new definition of chutzpah," said Janet Morana, co-founder of the SNMAC. "The Johns Hopkins study was led by a man, Dr. Robert Blum, who once chaired the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood's research arm, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, and who has been used as an expert witness by the Center for Reproductive Rights. I wouldn't exactly call this a report done by a disinterested, objective observer."
"Three recent studies, from America, Australia, and New Zealand, documenting abortion's increased risk of subsequent mental and emotional disorders were conveniently ignored by the Johns Hopkins study," added Georgette Forney, another SNMAC co-founder. "As I and thousands of Silent No More women can testify, the ones playing politics with women's lives are those who ignore the clear evidence of abortion's impact on women in order to advance their own pro-abortion agenda."
Since the launching of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 2,739 women and men have shared their testimonies publicly at over 325 gatherings in 44 states and seven countries where more than 41,000 spectators have heard the truth about abortion's negative aftereffects. More than 6,100 people are registered to be Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope with the pain are two of the Campaign's goals.
The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is a joint project of Anglicans for Life and Priests for Life. For more information, please visit our website:
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It seems counterintuitive to me that you could kill your offspring and NOT have phycological problems.
True. In my office practice I have had for twenty years a steady flow of women seeking healing and recovery from the emotional trauma of abortion. To deny this reality, which the abortionists well know, is unethical and frankly evil.
Abortionists themselves often display the effects of their bloody trade as they have a high incidence of alcoholism and depression themselves, just as did their soulmates the Nazi doctors who ran the extermination camps.
They don’t care about women’s health. They care about their despicable, racist agenda.
I guess I started thinking as long ago as the 1970s there is something twisted about these people. NO ONE can say partial birth abortion is anything other than premeditated murder.
Two of my wife's three pregnancies were rough at best. For one she spent every weekend of her last 2.5 months lying in a hospital bed. Even when she was home she was bedridden most of those last months. She would have happily died in those days rather than surrender to an abortion.
All three of our kids are sources of immeasurable pride. From rough pregnancies on, when life is supplying me with groin kicks, I wonder which one or two would have been the best to abort to make life easier. Depression? If I ever MADE a choice like that, I'd be a candidate for suicide.
Women aren't the only ones who have had mental health issues due to abortion.... Testimony by guys for life.
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