Religions > Atheism > British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, Raises Suicide Risk
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British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, Raises Suicide Risk |
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman. The pro-
abortionists would deny women this information if they could.
http://www.lifenews.com/int317.html
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Doctors in England testifying before
the British House of Commons said abortion is a serious risk to a
woman's mental health and can make her six times more likely to
consider committing suicide. The doctors cited medical studies backing
up their assertions as they commented on a bill to make the
information available to women.
Dr. Trevor Stammers, who practices at St. George's University of
London and teaches medicine there, said he supported the measure to
make women aware of the risks and dangers associated with abortion.
He said that in 26 years of medical practice, all of which come after
Britain legalized abortion in 1967, he has seen numerous women come to
him with physical or mental health problems resulting from their
abortion.
"The most recent research has shown very clearly that abortion
presents a serious risk to the long-term mental health of women and
why it is therefore important to know which women are being offered
abortion on mental health grounds," he told lawmakers, according to a
report in the Evening Standard newspaper.
Dr. Robert Balfour, a consultant gynecologist, agreed with the
analysis and pointed to a study of 5,000 women in Finland conducted
between 1987 and 2000 showing that those who had an abortion after an
unplanned pregnancy were six times more likely to commit suicide than
women who carried their baby to term.
The newspaper reported him saying that evidence for mental health
problems following an abortion is apparent in his hometown in South
Wales.
Balfour indicated that there were more psychiatric admissions and
suicides among women who had abortions than those who gave birth.
In October 2006, some fifteen of Great Britain's leading obstetricians
and psychiatrists penned an open letter to the London Times
acknowledging the psychological consequences of abortions.
Also last year, a university researcher in New Zealand conducted an
extensive study on thousands of women and found that 40 percent of
those who have abortions suffer from mental health problems following
an abortion.
Those problems included depression, addictions to alcohol or drugs,
sleep disorders, thoughts of suicide and the problems were much
greater than those faced by women who had miscarries or carried their
pregnancy to term.
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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04 Jun 2007 11:16:12 PM |
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J Young <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote:
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman.
STUDY REPORTS RISE IN CHILDBIRTH DEATHS
San Jose Mercury News (SJ) - Tuesday, June 11, 1996
By: New York Times
UNITED NATIONS In the first comprehensive survey in a decade to look at
maternal deaths worldwide, UNICEF reported Monday that about 585,000 women die
each year during pregnancy and childbirth, many needlessly.
Millions more, perhaps as many as 18 million women, suffer debilitating
illnesses or injuries that often disable them.
The figures are nearly one-fifth higher than previous estimates of about
500,000 deaths, according to the report by UNICEF, the United Nations Childrens
Fund, which compiled the new data with the World Health Organization and Johns
Hopkins University.
Much of the tragedy is preventable, the study says.
"For the most part, these are the deaths not of the ill, or the very old,
or the very young, but of healthy women in the prime of their lives," says the
report, the Progress of Nations 1996.
Data from the report indicate that one in 13 women in sub-Saharan Africa
and one in 35 in South Asia dies of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth,
according to UNICEF officials, compared with one in 3,200 in Europe, one in
3,300 in the United States, and one in 7,300 in Canada.
The survey faults the shortage of obstetric care in many nations. It calls
for the proper medical training of more midwives who would be better qualified
than traditional birth attendants to assist mothers before, during and after
delivery.
About 75,000 women die annually of botched abortions and another 75,000 of
brain and kidney damage in eclampsia, a disorder that can cause high blood
pressure and convulsions late in pregnancy. At least 100,000 die of blood
poisoning and 40,000 of obstructed labor.
The report on maternal risks, prepared under UNICEF's director, Carol
Bellamy, a former New York City Council president and director of the Peace
Corps who took over the agency last year, is notably stronger in its language
and imagery than many U.N. publications.
The new figures produced in the UNICEF report raised some questions among
experts, who say that getting accurate information on maternal mortality is
notoriously difficult. At Harvard University, Lincoln Chen, professor of
international health and head of the Center for Population and Development
Studies, said that the difference between 500,000 maternal deaths, the
previously accepted figure, and 585,000 or 600,000 may fall within a margin of
error, since all such numbers were "insecure."
More information at http://www.unicef.org/pon96/contents.htm
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, Raises Suicide Risk |
04 Jun 2007 11:00:29 PM |
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J Young wrote:
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Doctors in England testifying before
the British House of Commons said abortion is a serious risk to a
woman's mental health and can make her six times more likely to
consider committing suicide.
Drinking alcohol is even worse! Outlaw gin and tonics!
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| User: "IAAH" |
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| Title: Re: British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, RaisesSuicide Risk |
04 Jun 2007 10:10:17 PM |
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J Young wrote:
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman. The pro-
abortionists would deny women this information if they could.
Ah, the old "heard of" and "post hoc ergo propter hoc"
reasoning. Wow! Might as well just shut up the research
labs and go home, these guys are obviously better at
this, right?
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, Raises Suicide Risk |
04 Jun 2007 11:16:04 PM |
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On 5 Jun., 05:01, J Young <youngopini...@aol.com> wrote:
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman.
"Pro-life" is newspeak for "anti-abortion".
The pro-
abortionists would deny women this information if they could.
Liar. And "pro-abortionist" is newspeak for "pro-choice".
You don't want an abortion, don't get one.
http://www.lifenews.com/int317.html
Ah, the usual balanced and unbiased yource...
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Doctors in England testifying before
the British House of Commons said abortion is a serious risk to a
woman's mental health and can make her six times more likely to
consider committing suicide. The doctors cited medical studies
Which "medical studies"? Cite please?
backing
up their assertions as they commented on a bill to make the
information available to women.
Information is always available to women. This is propaganda.
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| User: "Duncan Patton" |
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05 Jun 2007 02:19:02 AM |
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On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:01:45 -0700
J Young <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote:
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Re: British Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems, Raises Suicide Risk
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So does "cosmetic" surgury. And it costs the rest of us a lot more.
Dhu
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| User: "MarkA" |
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05 Jun 2007 06:46:14 AM |
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On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:01:45 -0700, J Young wrote:
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman. The pro-
abortionists would deny women this information if they could.
http://www.lifenews.com/int317.html
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Doctors in England testifying before
the British House of Commons said abortion is a serious risk to a
woman's mental health and can make her six times more likely to
consider committing suicide. The doctors cited medical studies backing
up their assertions as they commented on a bill to make the
information available to women.
Dr. Trevor Stammers, who practices at St. George's University of
London and teaches medicine there, said he supported the measure to
make women aware of the risks and dangers associated with abortion.
He said that in 26 years of medical practice, all of which come after
Britain legalized abortion in 1967, he has seen numerous women come to
him with physical or mental health problems resulting from their
abortion.
"The most recent research has shown very clearly that abortion
presents a serious risk to the long-term mental health of women and
why it is therefore important to know which women are being offered
abortion on mental health grounds," he told lawmakers, according to a
report in the Evening Standard newspaper.
Dr. Robert Balfour, a consultant gynecologist, agreed with the
analysis and pointed to a study of 5,000 women in Finland conducted
between 1987 and 2000 showing that those who had an abortion after an
unplanned pregnancy were six times more likely to commit suicide than
women who carried their baby to term.
The newspaper reported him saying that evidence for mental health
problems following an abortion is apparent in his hometown in South
Wales.
Balfour indicated that there were more psychiatric admissions and
suicides among women who had abortions than those who gave birth.
In October 2006, some fifteen of Great Britain's leading obstetricians
and psychiatrists penned an open letter to the London Times
acknowledging the psychological consequences of abortions.
Also last year, a university researcher in New Zealand conducted an
extensive study on thousands of women and found that 40 percent of
those who have abortions suffer from mental health problems following
an abortion.
Those problems included depression, addictions to alcohol or drugs,
sleep disorders, thoughts of suicide and the problems were much
greater than those faced by women who had miscarries or carried their
pregnancy to term.
All these studies a retrospective. Perhaps the women who had abortions
were *already* depressed before becoming pregnant? Even if it were the
abortion per se that raised the risk of mental health issues, it should
still be the woman who gets to make the final call.
MarkA
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| User: "LC" |
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05 Jun 2007 08:39:33 AM |
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Pro-idiocy woman hater "J Young" <> wrote in message
news:1181012505.866854.165650@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
This is just another example of why pro-life is pro-woman.
<snort>
"This woman had alot of audacity interjecting her typically airheaded,female
opinions into matters that
were never her business to begin with... a woman with some common sense;a
very rare commodity indeed."
From: (Jon Young)
Message-ID: <25e1e54f.0404130836.f6fa868@posting.google.com>
"I didn't mean all women were sluts, just the ones who dismiss
abstinence"
and STD's. From: "J Young" <youngopini...@aol.com>
Message-ID: <1103695184.184146.108650@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
"women are an absolute terror on the road and should be
banned from driving in metropolitan areas. Not one day ever passes
without some woman doing something to disrupt the flow of traffic.
They are the cause of numerous fender-benders. The majority of women
....should be confined to driving in rural and suburban areas."
From: (J Young)
Message-ID: <9c2d0f9a.0409192026.24f0cc96@posting.google.com>
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