BTW do you have any personal
experiences that you would like to relate to this ng. It appears that most
pro-abortion women have never had an abortion.

Every woman I have have spoken to, who ahve gone throught the process
wish they hadn't. All of them suffer extreme guilt

In response to these allegations, the American Psychological Association
established a Task Force on Postabortion Emotional Reponses to examine the
issues. The Task Force reviewed the scientific literature and found no
scientific basis for such claims.
The APA is pro leftist.

Many Psycologists dispute the claims of the APA.

The Roe vs Wade is still a sacriment with the feminazies

Roe wishes today that she had never take the issue to the
supreme cout.

"Karen Gordon" <ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:eldc5s$k2i$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...

"J Young" (youngopinions@aol.com) writes:

(K): Lots of "new studies" coming in from the anti-abortion industry,
isn't
there? Too bad they don't care about all the babies their right wing
governments are killing all over the world when they truly ARE 'babies'.
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The informed consent process has become a pawn in pro-life movement
efforts to restrict access to abortion.

Scientific evidence not withstanding, under the guise of a 'kinder and
gentler' approach in what have been called the 'abortion wars' (Solinger,
1998), the pro-life movement is waging a campaign around the world to
portray abortion as a threat to women's mental health. Such efforts
contribute to a larger strategy to undermine access to legal abortion that
involves subverting the informed consent process.

The campaign began in the United States, where successful construction of
a 'postabortion syndrome' could help political forces opposing abortion
overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion,
by arguing that the Court failed to balance its concern for the negative
effects of unwanted pregnancy with the alleged "fact" that abortion is
detrimental to women's mental health.

It didn't begain in the US. Euopena scientists have know all along that
abortion is a threat to a women's health. BTW do you have any personal
experiences that you would like to relate to this ng. It appears that most
pro-abortion women have never had an abortion.

spoken to, who ahve gone throught the process wish they hadn't. All of them
suffer extreme guilt

In response to these allegations, the American Psychological Association
established a Task Force on Postabortion Emotional Reponses to examine the
issues. The Task Force reviewed the scientific literature and found no
scientific basis for such claims.

The APA is pro leftist. Many Psycologists dispute the claims of the APA.

The Task Force did not view itself has having a vested interest in its
conclusions: indeed one could even argue that if abortion had been found
to be a widespread and severe risk to mental health, then psychologists
could argue for more funding to conduct research and provide psychological
services aimed at helping such women. Nonetheless, in order to avoid
charges of pro-choice bias in having come to their conclusion that the
scientific findings did not support portraying abortion as a severe threat
to public health, the initial report of the Task Force was submitted to
Science, an independent, highly respected scientific journal that accepted
it after an extensive peer review (Adler et al, 1990).

Other reviews of the literature, spanning nearly three decades, have come
to similar conclusions (e.g., Adler, 1990, 1992; National Academy of
Sciences, 1975; Schwartz, 1986; Russo, 1992; Russo & Denious 2000).

Despite a consistent consensus of scientific findings and failure to
justify 'postabortion syndrome' as a recognized psychiatric diagnosis,
pro-life advocates have turned to prolife legislators who craft bills
mandating informed consent scripts that exaggerate abortion's physical and
mental health risks while downplaying the risks of giving birth in blatant
disregard of research findings.

A disturbing illustration of the approach of some politicians involved in
these activities is found in the words of Illinois State Representative
Dan
Reitz, who introduced a mandatory informed consent bill and when
criticized
for its misleading context was reported in the March 12, 2001 edition of
Newsweek as saying: 'I'm not really sure about the science. My intent was
strictly about limiting abortion'.

By misrepresenting health risks, pro-life activists use fear to encourage
pregnant women to have unwanted births and to deter them from exercising
their legal right to an abortion. Such activities also attempt to deter
physicians from providing abortions by passing legislation making them
civilly and criminally liable for damages from such 'injuries'.

Although the pro-life campaign started in the United States, it is being
exported to other countries. For the last several years, a campaign to
construct 'postabortion syndrome' has progressed around the world,
including such countries as England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and
Switzerland.

Recently, the campaign has been taken to a new level in Britain.


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The Roe vs Wade is still a sacriment with the feminazies, who have never had
an abortion. Roe wishes today that she had never take the issue to the
supreme cout.