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SPRINGFIELD, IL, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland. The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who had miscarriages. The...

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: Of American women, 53.9 percent felt badly after their abortion while only 13.8 percent felt relief. Some 36.4 percent of the American women had suicidal thoughts and 26.7 percent increased their use of alcohol or drugs. Only 10.8 percent of the American...

Making the Wrong Choice Is 'the Worst Feeling in the World' Vera Faith Lord says that one of the worst things a person can do to a post-abortive woman is to try to make her feel better. She maintains that many of the most strident pro-choice activists are post-abortive women, because they are trying so hard to convince themselves that what they did was right. "They try to justify loudly and vehemently what they did," she says. "I was 34 years old when I killed my son. He would be 21 now." A victim of an abusive marriage and addicted...

"Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence" Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles, The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2002, 3089 Bathurst St., Suite 316, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2A4, www.deveber.org, ISBN 0-920453-22-8 333, pp., $24.95 Cdn. $19.95 U.S. Reviewed by John Shea, M.D. The major evil of abortion is that it kills unborn children. It also leaves in its wake an appalling aftermath of psychological, physical, and spiritual devastation. This tragic trail is brilliantly described in this authoritative new book by Ring-Cassidy and Gentles. Though much of the information in the book is necessarily scientific and technical,...