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Far from reducing the number of abortions, contraception to some extent finds in abortion a natural unfolding.
Given that the contraceptive mentality is in fact close to the abortive mentality, large-scale use of contraception in the developed nations has contributed to the routine use of abortion.
Scientific research today is oriented towards the development of increasingly “effective” contraceptive techniques to prevent conception and [to prevent] the continuation of pregnancy, with increasingly less risk to the woman, resulting in increasingly abortifacient contraception.
This is a further demonstration of the close link, not only cultural but also scientific, between the use of contraception and the demand for abortion.
To avoid uttering the word “abortion”, people talk about the pharmacological “prevention” of implantation, “interception” or “contragestion”.
It is also asserted that the embryo is not an embryo as long as it is not implanted in the lining of the uterus, but simply a “pre-embryo”, a mass of cells which does not call for any particular respect.
However, a play on words cannot change the reality of the facts.
[Those] who, verbally or in writing, endorse the use of contraception, must know that, in so doing, they are endorsing all the abortions thereby caused and to be caused, which will amount to millions of individuals.
[Jacques Suaudeau, http://www.dialoguedynamics.com/content/learning-forum/interviews-and-articles/article/mons-jacques-suaudeau-on-the-link]
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Women Have a RIGHT to Know: Abortion Increases Risk of Severe Mental Health Problems (BJP, 2011) |
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Women Should be Told of Abortion-Mental Health Link Risks
Largest Ever Study Finds Abortion Increases Risk of Severe Mental Health Problems by 81%...
Women Should be Told of Abortion-Mental Health Link Risks
An organization for women who regret their abortions and leaders of pro-life groups are hailing a new study confirming that abortion causes a number of mental heath risks for women.
A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry by leading American researcher Dr. Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University finds women who have an abortion face almost double the risk of mental health problems as women who have their baby.
Coleman’s study is based on an analysis of 22 separate studies which, in total, examine the pregnancy experiences of 877,000 women, with 163,831 women having an abortion. The study also indicated abortion accounts for one in ten of every adverse mental health issue women face as a whole.
Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the world’s largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, say that the report validates what many post-abortive women already know.
“This is not just another study. It’s historic,” Silent No More co-founder Georgette Forney told LifeNews. “It combines the results of 22 studies conducted over a 14-year period in six countries involving 877,181 women. And it confirms what Silent No More members have been saying all along – abortion harms women.”
“The cruelty of those who lie to
pregnant women about abortion’s impact is compounded by the
heartlessness of abortion industry propagandists who dismiss
post-abortive women’s pain as non-existent. After this enormous
scientific study, abortion’s apologists should apologize to the millions
of women they’ve tried to marginalize,” she said.
Meanwhile, Jeanne Monahan, Director of the Family Research Council’s
Center for Human Dignity, agreed that the study makes it so women should
be informed of the risks prior to having an abortion.
“Dr. Coleman’s research reveals the indisputable truth that abortion is
bad for women’s mental health,” she said. “The fact that Coleman’s study
found 81 percent of women who have had an abortion to be at increased
risk for significant mental health problems is proof of this. The study
also reveals that as many as ten percent of all mental health problems
are directly attributable to abortion.”
“With this information, doctors now have a valid and unbiased synthesis
of the current research available on the relationship between abortion
and women’s mental health. Because it is a meta-analysis the research is
much more thorough and reliable than any other single study or review
to date,” Monahan added. “Women need to know this information; they have
the right to informed consent before choosing abortion. Abortion not
only takes the life of a baby but it often causes much emotional harm to
the mother.”
The peer-reviewed study indicated abortion was linked with a 34 percent
chance of anxiety disorders, and 37 percent higher possibility of
depression, a more than double risk of alcohol abuse (110 percent), a
three times greater risk of marijuana use (220 percent), and 155 percent
greater risk of trying to commit suicide.
When compared to unintended pregnancy delivered women had a 55% increased risk of experiencing any mental health problem.
Dr. Coleman said she conducted the study “to produce an unbiased
analysis of the best available evidence addressing abortion as one risk
factor among many others that may increase the likelihood of mental
health problems. There are in fact some real risks associated with
abortion that should be shared with women as they are counseled prior to
an abortion.”
“This review offers the largest estimate of mental health risks
associated with abortion available in the world literature. The results
revealed moderate to high increased risk of mental health problems after
abortion. Consistent with evidence-based medicine, this information
should be used by health care professionals,” Coleman said. “Recently
published, less systematic reviews of the scientific literature on
abortion and mental health, including the American Psychological
Association report and one by Johns Hopkins researchers among others,
are prone to bias, and as a result actively mislead the public.”
The study is a meta-analysis, which is a quantitative or numerical
synthesis of data from many previously published studies. In a
meta-analysis all studies are not treated equally. Contributions of
individual study effects to the overall results are weighted
statistically based on sample size.
Only studies that meet very stringent methodologically-based criteria
are entered into the analysis; whereas in other types of reviews authors
may not reveal the criteria employed or the criteria may be too
restrictive (missing valuable studies) or too general (including weak
studies in conclusions), Coleman explained. The bottom line is the
results are far more reliable than the results of a single study or a
qualitative review, because of the wealth of data incorporated and the
objective methods for combining effects.
“The paper is being published in a very prestigious journal, the British
Journal of Psychiatry, which is considered one of the top psychiatry
journals in the world. This means the paper has been extensively
scrutinized by well-respected scientists and the results of studies are
trusted by practitioners throughout the world,” Coleman said.
Related: www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org
[Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 9/2/11,
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/02/women-should-be-told-of-abortion-mental-health-link-risks/
Largest Ever Study Finds Abortion Increases Risk of Severe Mental Health Problems by 81%
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.
Dr. Priscilla K. Coleman
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 -- http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.abstract?sid=f3a640ac-1664-489e-9f34-2ecc688a6d52
[Sep 01, 2011, T.
Baklinski, London, UK,
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/largest-ever-study-finds-abortion-increases-risk-of-severe-mental-health-pr?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=aab8f55fe0-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Headlines089_01_2011&utm_medium=email
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