Posted on 09/01/2011 4:08:38 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, UK, September 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that women who underwent an abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of mental health problems. The study also found that almost 10% of all women’s mental health problems are directly linked to abortion.
Conducted by Priscilla K. Coleman, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, the study was based on an analysis of 22 separate studies and 36 measures of effect, that involved a total of 877,181 participants of whom 163,831 had experienced an abortion. The study took into account pre-existing mental health problems prior to the abortion.
“In order to avoid any allegations of bias,” Dr. Coleman explained, “very stringent inclusion criteria were employed. This means every strong study was included and weaker studies were excluded.
“Specifically, among the rules for inclusion were sample size of 100 or more participants, use of a comparison group, and employment of controls for variables that may confound the effects such as demographics, exposure to violence, prior history of mental health problems, etc.”
This makes Dr. Coleman’s study the most comprehensive of its kind to date.
“Given the methodological limitations of recently published qualitative reviews of abortion and mental health, a quantitative synthesis was deemed necessary to represent more accurately the published literature and to provide clarity to clinicians” Dr. Coleman stated in the report.
She said her research was focused on offering “the largest quantitative estimate of mental health risks associated with abortion available in the world literature.” This, she said, would give health care practitioners “an accurate synopsis of the best available evidence in order to provide women with valid information in order to make informed health care decisions.”
The research revealed that abortion was associated with a 34% increased risk for anxiety disorders; 37% greater risk of depression; 110% greater risk of alcohol abuse and 220% greater risk of marijuana use/abuse.
Abortion was also linked with a 155% greater risk of attempting to commit suicide.
“The strongest subgroup estimates of increased risk occurred when abortion was compared with term pregnancy and when the outcomes pertained to substance use and suicidal behavior,” Dr. Coleman observed.
“Calling into question the conclusions from traditional reviews,” the report concluded, “the results revealed a moderate to highly increased risk of mental health problems after abortion. Consistent with the tenets of evidence-based medicine, this information should inform the delivery of abortion services.”
Commenting on the results of the study, Pro Life Campaign of Ireland spokesperson, Dr. Ruth Cullen said, “These findings are extremely disturbing and completely undermine pro-choice claims that abortion alleviates mental health problems. In fact, the study further proves that the opposite is the case.”
“These findings cannot be ignored,” Dr. Cullen stated. “They raise very serious issues for everyone regardless of which side they are one in the abortion debate. The best interests of women can only be served by an honest and dispassionate appraisal of the facts.”
Dr. Mary L. Davenport, president of the American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists and medical director of Nigeria’s Magnificat Maternal Health Project, said the study, “sheds important light on the mental health of women,” and exposes the “egregious cover-up of abortion complications” that are an aspect of “the abortion distortion.”
“This review, which is larger than any study to date, contradicts the recent and biased and less systematic review by the American Psychological Association, which fails to find a relationship between mental health problems and abortion,” Dr. Davenport wrote today in the American Thinker.
“The new meta-analysis also contradicts the stance of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which has been silent on the mental health impact of abortion in its official publications despite overwhelming evidence over the last two decades of abortion’s adverse effects.”
“By so powerfully linking abortion to mental health problems, the Coleman study helps us comprehend the magnitude of the damage done to entire nations by reckless, permissive abortion policies,” Dr. Davenport concluded.
An abstract of the study titled “Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009” with links to the full text is available on the British Journal of Psychiatry website here.
The Talmud discusses a case where doctors say that if the mother continues with the pregnancy, she will die. In such a case, we kill the fetus in order to save the mother. Why? Because when the partial life of the fetus is weighed against the full life of the mother, we give precedence to saving the full life.
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What is the justification for such a Talmudic decree in the Tanakh? The Talmud is mideval Rabbis saying this and that, but surely life is for God to give and take according to Torah or God’s will. Where in the Tanakh is this Rabbinic abortion exception justified?
Skipping over God’s obvious displeasure with killing pregnant women in Amos 1:13, let’s proceed directly to Torah:
Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 19:21
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life
Exodus 21:23
God even cares about animals.
Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life.
Leviticus 24:18
So, I ask again, where in the Tanakh is the justification for the Talmudic principle that an unborn child is a “partial life”?
**My religion (Judaism) teaches that abortion is acceptable
**in cases of rape. I’m entitled to it.
You should be less concerned about Rabbinic Talmudism (bloodless religion invented after the destruction of the 2nd Temple), which masquerades as Torah Apocalyptic Judaism (blood sacrifices, given by God at Sinai with millions of Jews witnessing).
You should be much more concerned about what God said in the Tanakh. In the Tanakh it says, “Thus says the Lord” many times. In the Talmud it’s, “Rabbi so and so says...”. Aren’t you better off getting God’s desires for you from God?
... man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 8:3
And I explained my position by citing relevant quotations from an Orthodox Rabbi in posts #15 and #17. I don’t attend temple, but I do believe in MY god, and the Orthodox Rabbi has it right. The Reformed and more liberal Jews that allow abortion on DEMAND and solemnize homo marriages have it wrong.
I don't know of any rabbi of ANY Jewish denomination who disagrees with the proposition that not only is abortion always acceptable to save the life of the mother, but it is in fact REQUIRED that this be allowed.
"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine."
In biblical times, killing an unborn child (basically an involuntary abortion) required that you pay damages. If you killed the mother, however, you were guilty of MURDER. This is why Judaism favors the life of the mother over the life of the unborn child when their competing interests meet. The mother's right to LIFE must always take priority over the life of the unborn child.
This has to be some sort of new low, even by troll standards.
I love how you're painting me as the enemy, when you've got plenty of liberals that refer to unborn children as parasites on the mother and state that mothers should be allowed to abort up to the moment of pregnancy. No, you reserve all your vitriol for me -- that's so intelligent. Yep, turn off people that agree with you on 95% of pro-life issues. Many who support a rape exception would be turned off by your rabid nature. Support for a rape exception is hardly uncommon, and I am still pro-life, regardless of what YOU think. I belonged to my local NLRC chapter in college, I worked on Carl Paladino's gubernatorial campaign last year, I wrote letters to my newspaper RE Terri Schiavo but whatever. According to you I'm not pro-life because I support a rape exception.
And look at you, summoning reinforcements after I was pinged to this thread by another one of your buds. Well, bring it on. I don't care. Do yourself a favor and just wiggle-waggle away.
That should say NRLC (dyslexia).
Looks like it......
I wonder when the commandment of *Thou shall not murder* got amended by God? Apparently we missed the memo.
A reporter asked a question regarding the South Dakota legislation which bans abortion except to save the life of the mother which is likely to be signed by the Governor.
"The state legislature of South Dakota has just passed a new law which allows abortion in case of threat to the mother's life, but denies it to all ages in cases of rape and incest, said the reporter. He then asked, "Does the President believe that rape and incest victims should be denied the right to an abortion?" McLellan responded saying, "the President has made very clear that he is pro-life with three exceptions." While McLellan did not state those exceptions they are widely assumed to be rape, incest and the life of the mother."
See, I don't even support an incest exception like he does, just rape and to save the life of the mother. Yet you're only bashing me. My position on this is mainstream Republican.
Oh, please, please, please, please, please, please, see #29.
Our youth pastor was doing a fill in for our main Sunday service last month and reveiled to the congregation that she was the child of a forced rape on her mother.
She is a very powerful testimony.
By your own admission, then, you're a RINO.
Besides, that is not an answer to wagglebee's question. He asked you "So, you are now trying to claim that Orthodox Judaism supports your pro-abortion agenda? "
Why don't you answer the question asked instead of answering a question you made up that nobody asked?
2008 Republican Party Platform
Maintaining The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life.
This was a response to a deformed rabbi who promulgated the FALSE premise that abortion was allowed within Judaic Law. B EFFING S
NOT under ANY circumstances. NONE.
The horror of secularism’s intentional misstating as to the intent of Judaic Law...
You have essentially taken a case of unintended consequences which is the accidental death of an unborn child, or manslaughter, and compared it to outright murder. HaShem definitely makes a distinction between these things. You would lead your people to SIN???
Your interpretation of the Torah, which I know and understand, left me gasping in stunned silence at the gross and unethical position you have put forth. G-d NEVER condoned the intentional murder of a child in the womb. You should feel intense shame at presenting this unthinkable position to Jewish women because they will NOT be absolved if they CHOOSE death for their children, nor will women of any other religion or no religion at all.
Understanding the original scripture, not updated to suit your times, is paramount to understanding G-d’s Commandments. You have taken the context and spun it into lead so to blind those who haven’t the teaching nor the common sense you have stripped away from the righteous to make the secular feel righteous when they aren’t, and can’t ever be, according to your interpretation.
Exodus 21: Verse 22-25:
22: *And if men strive together, and HURT a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall surely be fined, according as the woman’s shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
*Note: “...yet no harm follow” means that the child did NOT die. You will see in the next verses that these passages have nothing to do with the mother per se, but rather with the life of the child.
23: *But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25: burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
*Note. These verses make no mention whatever of the mother or the life of the mother. It is clearly the unborn child that is the main concern of these verses. Hence, if the mother miscarries and the child is born prematurely but alive, no loss of life has occurred, so a fine is the recompense for carelessness, but should the child die, it is the same as murder and is treated as such.
Your updated version makes no sense as written.
SO!
How DARE YOU!!!???!!!
THIS was what the response was to:
Excerpt by Irwin Graulich from an article on *Jewish Thought on Abortion* Arutz Sheva:
“””What pro-choice and pro-life advocates fail to realize is that their positions make them either accessories to murder, or accomplices to a meaningless beauty salon activity or cosmetic surgery procedure. Now that we see the inherent foolishness of both positions, there is a need to examine the Biblical context for an astonishing revelation on this Solomonic issue.
In Exodus, chapter 21, verses 22-23, it states, “If men shall fight, and they collide with a pregnant woman, and she miscarries, but the woman lives, the punishment on the men is financial, as determined by judges. But if the woman dies, there should be capital punishment.” Watch the brilliance and wisdom of these two sentences.
These verses clearly illustrate two important concepts. First, that the fetus is not a full life. If it were, capital punishment would be called for, as mentioned in the second sentence. We are also shown that the fetus is not a worthless piece of tissue, like excess nasal cartilage, since financial remuneration is required by the offenders. In addition, there are later references to the health of the mother taking precedence to the unborn.
So how do we interpret this God-given posture and how does it totally resolve the issue? This astounding centrist Jewish position is equally distant between pro-choice and pro-life. It simply states that abortion is not murder...and is not nothing! The only way to enforce these seemingly contradictory positions is to allow an immoral act, while at the same time to discourage it strongly, which is exactly what is done in Israel in the majority of cases.”””
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Note that he had to COMPLETELY change the VERSE in order to reach his obscene conclusion.
Now, wagglebee said this:
"So, you are now trying to claim that Orthodox Judaism supports your pro-abortion agenda?"
I never claimed this. I claimed that Orthodox Judaism endorses LIMITED circumstances in which abortion is acceptable. All Orthodox authorities I've read agree that it is acceptable to save the mother's life. Many Orthodox authorities agree that it is acceptable if the fetus is the product of rape, because carrying it to term could cause the mother severe emotional trauma.
If you actually bothered to read my posts where I quoted the Orthodox rabbi then you would understand that. He makes it quite clear that Orthodox Judaism places the fetus in high esteem, and that it may only be aborted in limited circumstances. One of those circumstances is to save the mother's life, and another is if the child is the product of rape.
HERE, again are the relevant quotes. Don't miss them this time, pretty please?
""In Jewish law, a baby attains becomes a full-fledged human being when the head emerges from the womb. Before then, the fetus is considered a partial life.
So is it permitted to destroy this partial life?
Generally, no. This is illustrated by a case in the Talmud whereby a building collapsed on Shabbat. The rescue crew does not know if anyone is trapped under the rubble or not. And even if someone is trapped, they may already be dead. Despite these doubts, we push aside the restrictions of Shabbat in order to dig out the rubble - on the chance that it may result in the prolonging of human life. Why? Because every part of human life - even a doubtful, partial human life - has infinite value.
This applies to a fetus as well.
What about danger to emotional health? There are certain circumstances where this, too, may be grounds for abortion. For example, if the mother became pregnant through rape, and the thought of bearing this child will cause her a nervous breakdown or severe emotional trauma."
If George W. Bush's position on this makes him a RINO, then yes, you can call me a RINO. Do you think he is a RINO? Be honest now. You're spending all your time bashing me, yet he's even more liberal on this issue than I am. I only support two abortion exceptions. He supports three.
Let me also note again, to anyone viewing, that the only reason I am even in this thread is because little jeremiah pinged me to it. You can't accuse me of TROLLING this thread if I only posted in it after being INVITED. YOU FAIL.
NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
That’s so, so very interesting. Are you a rabbi? We attended an Orthodox (not Modern Orthodox, REAL Orthodox) temple growing up, and our rabbi stated many times that abortion was acceptable to save the mother’s life, as well as in cases of rape. Those are the only exceptions he listed. The rest of your post is pretty much just drivel.
I am right about this, but even if I wasn’t, I’d still support the rape exception. Dubya does despite the fact that he isn’t Jewish. It is merely ancillary support for my position. You won’t change my mind on it. It’s like trying to get someone to change their mind on the death penalty (which I support). You waste a lot of energy and NO ONE changes their mind.
I don't go into abortion threads saying OH YEAH BLAH BLAH GOOD ARTICLE BUT I SUPPORT A RAPE EXCEPTION. I think that would be trolling. But dragging me into threads and attempting to berate me is also trolling.
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