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Dear Friends For Life, Thirty Studies in Five Years Show Abortion Hurts Women's Mental Health (condensed) - By Patricia Coleman, Ph. D. On Sunday November 7th, the Washington Post published an opinion by Dr. Brenda Major titled, "The Big Lie about Abortion and Mental Health." I would like to offer another perspective on the dishonesty permeating this scientific study and dissemination of information pertaining to abortion and mental health. Dr. Major is absolutely correct in saying that an informed choice regarding abortion must be based on accurate information. For abortion providers to offer an unbiased and valid synopsis of the scientific literature on increased risks of abortions, the information must include depression, substance abuse and anxiety disorders, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (PTSD), as well as suicide ideation and behaviors as reported in over 30 studies published in major medical and psychology journals throughout the world. As a group of researchers, who in 2008 had published nearly 50 peer-reviewed articles indicating abortion is associated with negative psychological outcomes, 6 colleagues and I sent a petition letter to the American Psychological Association (APA) criticizing their methods and conclusions as described in their Task Force Report on Abortion and Mental Health...The opinion piece by Brenda Major following on the heels of the highly biased APA report is just the latest effort to divert attention from the tidal wave of sound published data on the emotional consequences of abortion. The evidence is accumulating despite efforts to keep the truth from the academic journals, and ultimately from women, to insure that the big business of abortion continues unimpeded. A conservative estimate from the best available data is that 20 to 30 percent of women who undergo an abortion will experience serious and/or prolonged negative consequences. Any interpretation of the available research that does not acknowledge the strong evidence now available in the professional literature represents a conscious choice to ignore basic principles of scientific integrity. -LifeNews.com. God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI
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Lifeissues.net Newsletter #521
April 17 2011
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2. Canada's seniors: The doctor will see you now
3. Japan's first child organ transplant donor
4. Priests not spared in China's crackdown
5. Lecturer tells priests of women's woes
6. India: Attacks on children condemned
7. Human rights in North Korea still 'grim'
8. Family Deformation
9. Assisted suicide to be legalised in Swiss old peoples' homes
10. Vatican to UN: stop treating having children as 'something to be feared'
11. 'Keep pushing' for universal access to 'reproductive health': new UNFPA chief
12. Royal College of Psychiatrists claims no negative mental health consequences from abortion
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(Focus on Asia): "Japan's crisis: one month later" -Japan is just in the beginning of the long term recovery effort from the earthquake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11. The crisis alert level from the damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has now been raised to the highest level of impact, the same as the Chernobyl Russia incident 25 years ago.
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ITEM #1: Europe: fertility remains well below replacement level
Between 2003 and 2009, the fertility rate of the 27 nations of the European Union increased from 1.47 children per woman to 1.60 -- a figure that remains well below the replacement level of 2.1. The nations with the highest fertility rates in 2009 were Iceland (2.23), Turkey (2.1), Ireland (2.07), and France (2.00), while Latvia (1.31) and Portugal (1.32) had the lowest rates.
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ITEM #2: Canada's seniors: The doctor will see you now Seniors are the fastest-growing segment of the population, with 4.8 million Canadians aged 65 and older. The figure that will double to 10.4 million in 2036 and by 2051, one in four will be older than 65. But who will be their doctors?
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ITEM #3: Japan's first child organ transplant donor
A boy less than 15 years old was confirmed to be brain dead in an unidentified hospital in the Kanto-Koshinetsu region of Japan at 7:37 Tuesday after he figured from a vehicular accident. The first brain death diagnosis was made at 20:25 Monday.
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ITEM #4: Priests not spared in China's crackdown
At least three "underground" priests in northern Hebei province have been detained in the crackdown on human rights activists and Christians not affiliated to the government-sanctioned Church. One priest has been reportedly tortured and there are fears for the others' safety.
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ITEM #5: Lecturer tells priests of women's woes
Sri Lanka: Steps must be taken to educate all of society, including women, about the laws on domestic violence urgently. "Only then we can expect good results."
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ITEM #6: India: Attacks on children condemned
Thirty-seven groups belonging to all faiths have publicly condemned a pro-Hindu group's attack on Christian-run homes for poor children in Karnataka. They deplored the new trend among Hindu fundamentalists to "train their guns" on students, especially those from these poor homes, alleging proselytization.
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ITEM #7 Human rights in North Korea still 'grim'
North Korea's human rights situation remains 'grim', according to the latest US human rights report. But a Catholic human rights activist questioned if it is really trustworthy.
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ITEM #8: Family Deformation
A recent eye-opening study put numbers to an issue that I have written about repeatedly: One in five of all American mothers have children from different men. When mothers of more than two children are isolated, the number jumps to 28 percent. When race is isolated, it gets extreme: 59 percent of African-American mothers and 35 percent of Hispanic mothers have children with more than one father.
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ITEM #9: Assisted suicide set to be legalised in Swiss old peoples' homes
I thought of Nigel Cameron today when I recalled his prophetic quote: Euthanasia, of course, is the next round of that discussion, ... It's a lot more difficult because with euthanasia, the life wants to be taken. So you can't say, 'Poor fetus, nobody asked the fetus.' It's, 'Poor old guy, somebody asked him and he said, please do it. -Cheryl, CHN
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ITEM #10: Vatican to UN: stop treating having children as 'something to be feared'
The Vatican's permanent observer at the United Nations on Tuesday urged the international body to abandon policies that treat childbearing as "something to be feared rather than affirmed" and marginalize the poor as "inconsequential objects" whose populations should be reduced.
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ITEM #11: 'Keep pushing' for universal access to 'reproductive health': new UNFPA chief
It is widely acknowledged that at the UN, the term "reproductive health" is a bureaucratic euphemism that typically includes abortion, sterilization and artificial contraception.****************************************
ITEM #12: Royal College of Psychiatrists claims no negative mental health consequences from abortion
Comment: Women everywhere (and men) should be outraged that these "experts" claim that "there is no difference in mental health outcomes whether a woman gives birth or has an abortion." Women are that callous about their unborn babies? Is miscarriage a "non-event" also? How helpful could psychiatric treatment be for suffering women when these psychiatrists don't believe that abortion hurts? -Nancy Valko, RN*****************************
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