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“In considering the Partial Birth Abortion Act, the Congress…found that a ‘moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion... is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.’
Pres Bush signed the bill into law: ‘By acting to prevent this practice, the elected branches of our government have affirmed a basic standard of humanity, the duty of the strong to protect the weak....And the executive branch will vigorously defend this law against any who would try to overturn it in the courts.’…
[Department of Justice spokesman Monica Goodling published a detailed explanation of the legal issues involved in the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban case]
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An Expert Questions a Study Denying Child Porn is a Risk Factor for Future Sex Offenses (7/09) |
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An Expert Questions a Study which Showed Child Porn is Not a Risk Factor for Future Sex Offenses
A new study by the Swiss Department of Justice and Psychiatric/Psychological Service purports to show that for people without a prior conviction for a hands-on sex offense, the viewing of internet child pornography does not seem to represent a risk factor for committing such an offense.
Dr. Judith Reisman, however, the president of the Institute for Media Education and one of the foremost experts on the effects of pornography and its relationship to violent crime, has questioned the results of the Swiss study. Resiman told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that a defense of the use of child pornography as non-causal to subsequent sex abuse of children was "ludicrous."
The study, published by the online peer-reviewed journal BMC Psychiatry, was conducted by researchers from the Swiss Department of Justice and the University of Constance, Germany, led by Dr. Frank Urbaniok.
The study population consisted of 231 men, who were subsequently charged with consumption of illegal pornographic material after being detected by a special operation against Internet child pornography, conducted by the Swiss police in 2002. Criminal history, as well as recidivism, was assessed using the criminal records from 2008.
Urbaniok and colleagues were able to corroborate that the offenders were well educated and that most consumed other types of illegal pornography as well, such as pornography depicting sexual acts with animals, excrement, or involving brutality.
The report states that the 2008 criminal records of the men charged indicated only 1% of the offenders had gone on to commit a hands-on sex offense in the following six years.
The researchers concluded that "Consuming child pornography alone is
not a risk factor for committing hands-on sex offenses - at least not
for those subjects who had never committed a hands-on sex offense. The
majority of the investigated consumers had no previous convictions for
hands-on sex offenses. For those offenders, the prognosis for hands-on
sex offenses, as well as for recidivism with child pornography, is
favorable."
In her criticisms of the study's findings, however, Dr. Judith Reisman
referred to a study, conducted by psychologists of the US Federal
Bureau of Prisons, of sex offenders at Butner prison in North Carolina
that found an overwhelming correlation between use of child pornography
and sexual abuse of children.
"The Butner study, as it turns out, found that criminal sex offenders
tend to hide the extent of their crimes," she observed. "Although 40 of
155 men (26 percent) arrested 'just' for child pornography admitted to
being child molesters, later 132 of these men (85 percent) confessed to
sexually abusing children. In fact the 132 molesters admitted to 1,777
young victims."
Publication of the Butner study was suppressed but it was later leaked to the New York Times.
"People will do anything to avoid dealing with the harsh truth
surrounding their abusive conduct," Dr. Reisman observed. "Since
pornography is now recognized as a natural drug addiction similar to
that of gambling, cocaine and other addictions, obviously consumption
of pornography progresses for many users into more deviance to get that
'dopamine spritz' that high that keeps the addict seeking more of the
same endogenous drug hit, the high that lets him - or her - feel
something."
A 2004 Canadian study of 724 sex offenders validated the US Butner
report. In "Jail Programs had Little Effect on Whether Freed Inmates
Re-offended," roughly 22 percent of 724 treated and untreated sex
offenders had been reconvicted of sex crimes within 12 years. Dr.
Reisman observed that "these data reflect only those predators caught
for another sex crime within 12 years of release. Even this high rate
of recidivism wildly understates re-offenses, since child molesters are
commonly undetected despite assaulting scores of children for years."
Dr. Reisman explained that "All pornography renders the frequent user
impotent reliant on changing images to bring about what was once a
natural capacity for human arousal. All pornography is hypofrontal,
shutting off cognition and careening directly from eye to the autonomic
nervous system, along the spinal cord and terminating at the
reproductive organs, as powerful an aphrodisiac as one can consume.
"All of the data from neuroscience now confirm the neuroplasticity of
the brain and the addictive properties of all pornography, that is, all
'erototoxins'. Pornography is the toxic form of eros."
Dr. Reisman pointed out that the data naturally points to a link
between consuming child pornography and committing sexual offenses
against children, since people will seek to experience that which they
are interested in.
"A Nobel Prize winner was arrested for child sexual abuse, while
reports come in daily naming psychiatrists, mayors, governors,
legislators, teachers, prosecutors, judges, doctors, ACLU lawyers,
therapists, psychologists, priests, rabbis, etc., found with child
pornography and convicted of child sexual abuse. People who subscribe
to gourmet magazines will commonly try to eat gourmet foods. People who
subscribe to golf magazines, commonly try to play golf. Garden magazine
readers commonly try to work in their gardens. Child pornography users
will commonly try to abuse children."
Related:
Child Porn Pandemic as Police Estimate 600,000 Americans, 65,000 Canadians Trading Child Porn Online
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020610.html
Virginia Tech Killer Fueled by Pornography Says Expert
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/apr/07042312.html
[14July09, T.M. Baklinski, Zurich, www.LifeSiteNews.com]
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