National study: Abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents

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I remember reading in the 1970s how all these studies showed that divorce had little to no effect on the children. Then when those children were older, the bad effects started showing up.

How about seeing whether abortion has an effect a few years later?
 
St_Francis said:
I remember reading in the 1970s how all these studies showed that divorce had little to no effect on the children. Then when those children were older, the bad effects started showing up.

How about seeing whether abortion has an effect a few years later?
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The study covered people 1 year after an abortion, and again 5 years later.
 
Abortion murders 100% of intended victims. They don’t even need to study that one.
 
“For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’” (Matthew 13:15)
 
Just hearing how someone can kill an innocent baby makes ME depressed.
So yes, in MY study, abortion causes depression 100%.
 
Glad to hear that children aren’t psychologically affected when they hear mommy, and possibly daddy, conspired to kill their brother or sister. This of course forgets that the women who have the procedure performed on them often suffer the psychological affects after, or the fact that you’re killing a living creature who will become a legally recognized “person” in much the same way that an infant or a child will eventually attain to that status.
 
TheTrueCentrist said:
The study covered people 1 year after an abortion, and again 5 years later.
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And sometimes these things take even longer than that to acknowledge. I have read about women who didn’t really think about what had occurred until they married and beame pregnant, then it hit them.

And the “feelings” of people have no bearing on the state of the action anyway; it’s still a sin, and to whatever degree they are culpable, their souls are marked until they ask for God’s forgiveness, either in Confession or with perfect contrition.
 
Respondents who had had an abortion were similar in age to those reporting other outcomes (mean, 16.7–16.8 years);
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So, by mean age 21-22, no significantly higher measure of depression!!

The Guttmacher Institute once again “proves” that abortion is not harmful to women.

The idiocy is so overwhelming, I don’t know where to begin. But a nice start would be to note that a 21-year old post-abortive woman at the age of maximum maturity (no doubt) and self-chosen “freedom” is no BETTER off than her mature age-matched control with a 4-5 year old child.

But I’m sure it all goes downhill from there, for the women who chose life. We can just assume it, of course. So there would be NO role at all to follow these cohorts into their 30s or 40s, would there?. (And they would be hitting their 30s right about now, perfect time for another follow-up survey. I’m waiting…)
 
Nope. It’s flawed.
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/sep/10092712.html
lifenews.com/nat6728.html
But Priscilla Coleman, a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green University,…says its publication in a journal run by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, a former arm of the Planned Parenthood abortion business, means the study is “hardly unbiased.”
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Coleman closely examined the new study and said no conclusions should be drawn from it about teens having abortions and depression because “the sample of women who aborted was very small (69) resulting in limited statistical power.”
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She says the authors acknowledge the limitations associated with the small sample size on page 234 of their study, saying, “The lack of association between abortion and our outcomes could reflect other factors including insufficient sample size to detect an effect.”
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curlycool89 said:
Abortion murders 100% of intended victims. They don’t even need to study that one.
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Not 100%, but near there. You’re forgetting about Gianna Jessen, Melissa Ohden, and other survivors.
 
Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher research arm is running scared to come up with this “abortion has no effect” 'cause Dr. Joel Brind’s review of studies internationally shows breast cancer rates rising with abortion. The rise in breast cancer rates is especially high the younger the female. Planned Parenthood touted a Danish study showing no correlation of breast cancer with abortion; but it was flawed. When all data was (name removed by moderator)ut, the rise in breast cancer rates among Danish abortion recipients was actually some of the highest among an international demographic. So Guttmacher comes up with a study showing abortion doesn’t disturb mental equilibrium. Really? “OK, how about the increased rate of breast cancer? That ruffle any feathers? No? 'Cause nobody told you about that?”

**Immaculate Heart of Mary, reign and rule in all hearts. **
 
I think there is one very important paragraph in this article that is worth mentioning and it shouldn’t fill the authors or anybody with hope.

That is:
She said previous research has shown that adolescent girls who get pregnant report more depression and lower self-esteem compared to those who don’t. “What we didn’t know was whether psychological outcomes are worse for girls who choose abortion. This study says, ‘No.’”
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What this paragraph says is that girls that chose abortion are no more depressed than the group with an already high amount of depression and lower self-esteem. Is that really a recommendation for a procedure?

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it standard medical practice to compare somebody to the baseline for their age group? What this study tells us, and the article tries to pass off as no big deal is, that adolescents that have abortions will still be more depressed and have lower self-esteem than those that have not been pregnant or had an abortion.

Of course the article doesn’t say it that way because that would disprove the very thing they want to prove: that abortions are consequence free and that a life isn’t ended by that procedure.

ChadS
 
TheTrueCentrist said:
National study: Abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents
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This is the punchline of a joke right??

Are you kidding me? And you believe this?

‘in adolescents’. So, it does happen to adults, but not adolescents, because- you know, adolescents are so much more emotionally stable than adults…

This just doesnt even make sense. Not even ‘common’ sense, c’mon guy…

Just a side note from personal experience, after I had my daughter, I had that, after birth depression…lol? post partum depression I think its called?? I was happy, I laughed…I thought everything was normal - when its you, you don’t know your depressed. But other people could see the differences in me…and about 8 months after when I snapped out of it and looked back, THEN I could see it too…
 
TheTrueCentrist said:
physorg.com/news204549702.html
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Critically, this “study” probably amounts to little more than propaganda. Even if the “finding” is accurate, the good of the person, in this case adolescents who had abortions, has to be understood in terms of their entire life. That’s what pro abortionists keep forgetting,and trying to get the rest of the world to forget; that life is a whole (holy).
 
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