American Psychological Association May Hide Abortion's Risks in August Report

[juliee]

Washington, DC – A leading psychology professor and a liberal pro-life group are concerned that the American Psychological Association will hide the risks of abortion when it released a new report in August.

Last year, the psychological group began a new review of abortion and emotional issues.
If the APA conducts an exhaustive and honest review of the data, it will find a New Zealand study showing 40 percent of women who have abortions experienced significant depression – a higher rate than women who carry their pregnancy to term.

Other studies have shown women who have abortions have higher levels of addictions to drugs or alcohol and higher suicide rates

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[ribozyme]

correlation does not lead to causation is a general rule of thumb? Do you have any evidence that abortion causes depression?

 

[RachelsAlumni]

Do you have any evidence that abortion causes depression?

I do.

I had an abortion.

After my abortion I would wake up each morning crying and spend most of the day crying. I despised myself and thought frequently of suicide. By devaluing the life of my child, I no longer valued my own.

I had never had any history of depression or suicidal thoughts before. No family history of depression or suicide. I was married, wealthy, and otherwise quite content with my life. The only thing that changed was that I had an abortion.

I sought help from a Psychiatrist because of my suicidal thoughts and depression and never once did he make any correlation between my suicidal thoughts and the abortion even though it all began after the abortion. He wouldn’t even talk about it as if the “A” word was forbidden. All he wanted to do was go back into my childhood, or talk about my marriage, or my coping skills.

Is it really all that hard to believe that when a woman acts against her very nature to nurture and love that she would maybe perhaps experience some guilt? maybe some depression and suicidal ideation?

It’s been 25 years since my abortion and I still regret, regret, regret the poor choice I made.

And I’m not alone. Thousands of women have finally spoken out here & here & here and it’s not only the Mom’s who suffer:

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3858369431186397914

 

[stinkcat_14]

correlation does not lead to causation is a general rule of thumb? Do you have any evidence that abortion causes depression?

While I agree that correlation does not necessarily mean causation, why is that legitimate justification for leaving one study out, when all of the studies are nothing but correlations?

 

[ribozyme]

While I agree that correlation does not necessarily mean causation, why is that legitimate justification for leaving one study out, when all of the studies are nothing but correlations?

I just think that there are too many variables in this case. I thought the parameters that might explain abortion - such as the lack of money to raise a child - might have more explanatory power

 

[bbentrup]

I just think that there are too many variables in this case. I thought the parameters that might explain abortion - such as the lack of money to raise a child - might have more explanatory power

Not having enough money to raise a child never born leads to higher suicide rates and depression of women who have had an abortion?

Frankly, you are morally bound to publish any scientifically sound studies that might further the evidence of suicide and depression.

 

[Mark77]

God Bless You, RachelsAlumni, for your courage to speak the truth.

It is mere common sense, that a human being carrying her own child, another living human being, inside her womb, would feel incredible sorrow and anguish at the loss of that child.

Unfortunately, all too often in today’s world, we are looking for indisputable “evidence”. When we can question that evidence, then we can remove the guilt from what we know is wrong.

We speak of correlation and causation, variables and parameters, in order to stroke our inflated egos and make ourselves the ultimate authority.

When something that is true is beyond our understanding, it does not diminish that truth.

Pope Benedict speaks of this same concept when we try to understand God, “The arrogance that would make God an object and impose our laboratory conditions upon him is incapable of finding him. For it already implies that we deny God by placing ourselves above him, by discarding the whole dimension of love, of interior listening; By no longer acknowledging as real anything but what we can experimentally test and grasp. To think like that is to make oneself God. And to do that is to abase not only God, but the world and oneself, too.” (Jesus of Nazareth p. 37).

You are all in my prayers!

Mark