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Planned Parenthood Misleads Women on Abortion's Mental Health Risks
Life News ^ | 1/30/07 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on 01/30/2007 3:46:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of
America is coming under fire for continuing to mislead women about the
mental health risks associated with having an abortion. In a statement
released Tuesday by PPFA medical director Vanessa Cullins, the
abortion business claims there are no emotional or psychological
concerns.
Cullins answered a sample question from a Planned Parenthood supporter
asking if "having an abortion emotionally and psychologically
dangerous."
"No. Most women feel relief after an abortion," Cullins responded.
"But anti-choice extremists make false claims about this. They want
people to believe that most women who choose abortion suffer severe
and long lasting emotional trauma. This is not true," Cullins added.
"For more than 20 years, most scientific studies have found that
emotional reactions to having abortion are relatively positive,"
Cullins explains.
However, her statements run counter to the latest research studies
published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Dr. David Fergusson, a New Zealand college professor, published the
results of a study he conducted in January 2006 which showed women who
have abortions are more likely to become severely depressed.
"Those having an abortion had elevated rates of subsequent mental
health problems, including depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors and
substance use disorders," said Fergusson, whose study was published in
the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology
According to the study, 42 percent of the women who had abortions had
experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost
double the rate of women who never became pregnant. The risk of
anxiety disorders also doubled.
Women who had abortions were twice as likely to drink alcohol at
dangerous levels and three times as likely to be addicted to illegal
drugs compared with those who carried their pregnancies to term.
Fergusson's research was right in line with what professors at Bowling
Green State University in Ohio found in 2004. They examined data on
nearly 11,000 women between the ages of 15 and 34 who had experienced
an unintended pregnancy. Dr. Priscilla Coleman, a research
psychologist at BGSU, who published the report in the Journal of Youth
and Adolescence, said their survey found that women who have abortions
of unexpected pregnancies were 30 percent more likely to experience
subsequent problems with anxiety than those who don't have one.
Women in the study who had abortions and suffered from general anxiety
disorder experienced irritability, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, a
pounding or racing heart, or feelings of unreality.
Coleman pointed out that, while having a child as a teen may be
problematic, "the risks of terminating seem to be even more
pronounced."
"The scientific evidence is now strong and compelling," Coleman said.
"Abortion poses more risks to women than giving birth."
In an interview with a New Zealand newspaper about his study,
Fergusson said he doesn't oppose abortion but his results show that
abortion is dangerous for women.
"I'm pro-choice but I've produced results which, if anything, favor a
pro-life viewpoint," he explained. "It's obvious I'm not acting out of
any agenda except to do reasonable science about a difficult
problem."
"Our study is strongly suggestive of a link between abortion and
developing mental illness," he concluded.
Professor Fergusson plans a followup study next year asking more
detailed questions about the women who had abortions.
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30 Jan 2007 07:45:10 PM |
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"Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trumpet@myway.com> wrote in message
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Planned Parenthood Misleads Women on Abortion's Mental Health Risks
Life News ^ | 1/30/07 | Steven Ertelt
From
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/01/27/news/wyoming/8df244d6c01201198725726f000e06de.txt
Steven Ertelt, president of Right to Life of Wyoming, presented the bill to
the committee, accompanied by the bill's sponsor, Rep. Bob Brechtel,
R-Casper. Ertelt said the measure is based on model legislation drafted by
Chicago-based Americans United for Life, and that Arizona is one of several
states that has similar laws in place.
Posted on 01/30/2007 3:46:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of
America is coming under fire for continuing to mislead women about the
mental health risks associated with having an abortion. In a statement
released Tuesday by PPFA medical director Vanessa Cullins, the
abortion business claims there are no emotional or psychological
concerns.
Cullins answered a sample question from a Planned Parenthood supporter
asking if "having an abortion emotionally and psychologically
dangerous."
"No. Most women feel relief after an abortion," Cullins responded.
"But anti-choice extremists make false claims about this. They want
people to believe that most women who choose abortion suffer severe
and long lasting emotional trauma. This is not true," Cullins added.
"For more than 20 years, most scientific studies have found that
emotional reactions to having abortion are relatively positive,"
Cullins explains.
However, her statements run counter to the latest research studies
published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Dr. David Fergusson, a New Zealand college professor, published the
results of a study he conducted in January 2006 which showed women who
have abortions are more likely to become severely depressed.
"Those having an abortion had elevated rates of subsequent mental
health problems, including depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors and
substance use disorders," said Fergusson, whose study was published in
the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology
According to the study, 42 percent of the women who had abortions had
experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost
double the rate of women who never became pregnant. The risk of
anxiety disorders also doubled.
Women who had abortions were twice as likely to drink alcohol at
dangerous levels and three times as likely to be addicted to illegal
drugs compared with those who carried their pregnancies to term.
Fergusson's research was right in line with what professors at Bowling
Green State University in Ohio found in 2004. They examined data on
nearly 11,000 women between the ages of 15 and 34 who had experienced
an unintended pregnancy. Dr. Priscilla Coleman, a research
psychologist at BGSU, who published the report in the Journal of Youth
and Adolescence, said their survey found that women who have abortions
of unexpected pregnancies were 30 percent more likely to experience
subsequent problems with anxiety than those who don't have one.
Women in the study who had abortions and suffered from general anxiety
disorder experienced irritability, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, a
pounding or racing heart, or feelings of unreality.
Coleman pointed out that, while having a child as a teen may be
problematic, "the risks of terminating seem to be even more
pronounced."
"The scientific evidence is now strong and compelling," Coleman said.
"Abortion poses more risks to women than giving birth."
In an interview with a New Zealand newspaper about his study,
Fergusson said he doesn't oppose abortion but his results show that
abortion is dangerous for women.
"I'm pro-choice but I've produced results which, if anything, favor a
pro-life viewpoint," he explained. "It's obvious I'm not acting out of
any agenda except to do reasonable science about a difficult
problem."
"Our study is strongly suggestive of a link between abortion and
developing mental illness," he concluded.
Professor Fergusson plans a followup study next year asking more
detailed questions about the women who had abortions.
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| User: "Stop The War" |
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30 Jan 2007 11:08:25 PM |
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"Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trumpet@myway.com> wrote in message news:1170206193.856294.165400@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of
America is coming under fire [yadda yadda yadda]
Oh big deal. PPF is under fire by some moron in Helena, MT with a
PO Box. This is not news.
LifeNews.com
Mr Steven Ertelt
Women and Children First
PO Box5422
Helena, MT (US)
59604
406-431-9576
***********@usersa5.namescout.com
There are, however, numerous studies which support the contention
that mandatory motherhood adversely affects the mental health of
both the mother and the offspring. Studies conducted in Sweden, Scotland,
and Czechoslovakia revealed that women who were refused abortions
frequently experienced serious psychosocial difficulties for long
periods of time following abortion refusal. Case controlled follow-up
studies, conducted in Sweden and Czechoslovakia, of offspring born
to women who were refused abortions demonstrated that a higher proportion
of the unwanted children required psychiatric services, engaged in
criminal behavior, and did less well in school than the controlled
children. These studies have implications for the current Canadian
law which permits a woman to obtain an abortion if pregnancy continuation
will endanger her health. In view of the above statistical evidence,
and the fact that mortality and morbidity are known to be lower for
abortion than for childbirth, any person who denies a woman the right
to have an abortion is increasing the risk that the health of the
woman will be endangered. By law, therefore, all abortion requests
should be honored.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6989474&dopt=Abstract>
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| User: "John D.Wentzky" |
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30 Jan 2007 07:21:28 PM |
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All this is telling of PP's and the APA's agenda to support the ***** and
the whoremongers.
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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31 Jan 2007 12:45:04 AM |
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On 31 jan, 02:21, "John D.Wentzky" <johndwent...@alumni.furman.edu>
wrote:
All this is telling of PP's and the APA's agenda to support the ***** and
the whoremongers.
Why do you hate women so much, *****?
Oh, that's right: you're "christian"...
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jan 2007 08:03:42 PM |
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:21:28 -0500, John D.Wentzky wrote:
All<SMACK>
Shut up Wentinsane!
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EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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of 'coming from apes' and say that man is more noble than
that, and then have sermons where man is called a miserable
worm worthy to be burned eternally in hell." - William Bagley
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| User: "raven1" |
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30 Jan 2007 09:57:56 PM |
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On 30 Jan 2007 17:16:33 -0800, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@myway.com> wrote:
According to the study, 42 percent of the women who had abortions had
experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost
double the rate of women who never became pregnant.
What was the rate of those who became pregnant and carried it to term,
and why was it omitted? I'd be willing to bet it's significantly
higher than the rate of those who aborted, which is why it's left out.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "BOB" |
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30 Jan 2007 10:29:52 PM |
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raven1 <quoththeraven@nevermore.com> wrote in
news:ar40s2liqq7chpqfg66em1p446n1gusfbj@4ax.com:
On 30 Jan 2007 17:16:33 -0800, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@myway.com> wrote:
According to the study, 42 percent of the women who had abortions had
experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost
double the rate of women who never became pregnant.
What was the rate of those who became pregnant and carried it to term,
and why was it omitted? I'd be willing to bet it's significantly
higher than the rate of those who aborted, which is why it's left out.
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I believe the condition is called postpartum_depression and you are right
raven, the incident rate is high among those who gave birth. Kudos for
your cognizance of this fact.
"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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30 Jan 2007 09:57:08 PM |
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Sound of Trumpet <sound_of_trumpet@myway.com> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776382/posts
Planned Parenthood Misleads Women on Abortion's Mental Health Risks
Posted on 01/30/2007 3:46:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of
America is coming under fire for continuing to mislead women about the
mental health risks associated with having an abortion. In a statement
released Tuesday by PPFA medical director Vanessa Cullins,
Pro-liars hate the truth and will attack those who dare to tell the
truth.
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Abortion doesn't affect well-being, study says
New York Times (as printed in the San Jose Mercury 2/12/97)
Abortion does not trigger lasting emotional trauma in young women who
are psychologically healthy before they become pregnant, an eight-year
study of nearly 5,300 women has shown. Women who are in poor shape
emotionally after an abortion are likely to have been feeling bad about
their lives before terminating their pregnancies, the researchers said.
The findings, the researchers say, challenge the validity of laws
that have been proposed in many states, and passed in several, mandating
that women seeking abortions be informed of mental health risks.
The researchers, Dr. Nancy Felipe Russo, a psychologist at Arizona
State University in Tempe, and Dr. Amy Dabul Marin, a psychologist at
Phoenix College, examined the effects of race and religion on the
well-being of 773 women who reported on sealed questionnaires that
they had undergone abortions, and they compared the results with the
emotional status of women who did not report abortions.
The women, initially 14 to 24 years old, completed questionnaires and
were interviewed each year for eight years, starting in 1979. In 1980
and in 1987, the interview also included a standardized test that
measures overall well-being, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
"Given the persistent assertion that abortion is associated with
negative outcomes, the lack of any results in the context of such a
large sample is noteworthy," the researchers wrote. The study took
into account many factors that can influence a woman's emotional
well-being, including education, employment, income, the presence of
a spouse and the number of children.
Higher self-esteem was associated with being employed, having a
higher income, having more years of education and bearing fewer children,
but having had an abortion "did not make a difference," the researchers
reported. And the women's religious affiliations and degree of involvement
with religion did not have an independent effect on their long-term
reaction to abortion. Rather, the women's psychological well-being before
having abortions accounted for their mental state in the years after the
abortion, the researchers said..
In considering the influence of race, the researchers again found
that the women's level of self-esteem before having abortions was the
strongest predictor of their well-being after an abortion.
"Although highly religious Catholic women were slightly more likely
to exhibit post-abortion psychological distress than other women, this
fact is explained by lower pre-existing self-esteem," the researchers
wrote in the current issue of Professional Psychology: Research and
Practice, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
Overall, Catholic women who attended church one or more times a week,
even those who had not had abortions, had generally lower self-esteem
than other women, although within the normal range, so it was hardly
surprising that they also had lower self-esteem after abortions, the
researchers said in interviews.
Gail Quinn, executive director of anti-abortion activities for the
United States Catholic Conference, said the findings belied the
experience of post-abortion counselors. She said, "While many women
express `relief' following an abortion, the relief is transitory."
In the long term, the experience prompts "hurting people to seek the
help of post-abortion healing services," she said.
The president of the National Right to Life Committee, Dr. Wanda
Franz, who earned her doctorate in developmental psychology, challenged
the researchers' conclusions. She said their assessment of self-esteem
"does not measure if a woman is mentally healthy," adding, "This requires
a specialist who performs certain tests, not a self-assessment of how
the woman feels about herself."
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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