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Welcome to our website. Inside, you will find out some
information about Victims of Abortion, who we are, and what we
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NEW! Abortive Mental
Health Study
Sep 01 2011
LONDON, UK, September 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study
published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that
women who underwent an abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of
mental health problems. The study also found that almost 10% of all
women’s mental health problems are directly linked to abortion.
Conducted by Priscilla K. Coleman, Professor of Human Development
and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, the
study was based on an analysis of 22 separate studies and 36
measures of effect, that involved a total of 877,181 participants of
whom 163,831 had experienced an abortion. The study took into
account pre-existing mental health problems prior to the abortion.
“In order to avoid any allegations of bias,” Dr. Coleman explained,
“very stringent inclusion criteria were employed. This means every
strong study was included and weaker studies were excluded.
“Specifically, among the rules for inclusion were sample size of 100
or more participants, use of a comparison group, and employment of
controls for variables that may confound the effects such as
demographics, exposure to violence, prior history of mental health
problems, etc.”
This makes Dr. Coleman’s study the most comprehensive of its kind to
date.
“Given the methodological limitations of recently published
qualitative reviews of abortion and mental health, a quantitative
synthesis was deemed necessary to represent more accurately the
published literature and to provide clarity to clinicians” Dr.
Coleman stated in the report.
She said her research was focused on offering “the largest
quantitative estimate of mental health risks associated with
abortion available in the world literature.” This, she said, would
give health care practitioners “an accurate synopsis of the best
available evidence in order to provide women with valid information
in order to make informed health care decisions.”
The research revealed that abortion was associated with a 34%
increased risk for anxiety disorders; 37% greater risk of
depression; 110% greater risk of alcohol abuse and 220% greater risk
of marijuana use/abuse.
Abortion was also linked with a 155% greater risk of attempting to
commit suicide.
“The strongest subgroup estimates of increased risk occurred when
abortion was compared with term pregnancy and when the outcomes
pertained to substance use and suicidal behavior,” Dr. Coleman
observed.
“Calling into question the conclusions from traditional reviews,”
the report concluded, “the results revealed a moderate to highly
increased risk of mental health problems after abortion. Consistent
with the tenets of evidence-based medicine, this information should
inform the delivery of abortion services.”
Commenting on the results of the study, Pro Life Campaign of Ireland
spokesperson, Dr. Ruth Cullen said, “These findings are extremely
disturbing and completely undermine pro-choice claims that abortion
alleviates mental health problems. In fact, the study further proves
that the opposite is the case.”
“These findings cannot be ignored,” Dr. Cullen stated. “They raise
very serious issues for everyone regardless of which side they are
one in the abortion debate. The best interests of women can only be
served by an honest and dispassionate appraisal of the facts.”
Dr. Mary L. Davenport, president of the American Association of
ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists and medical director of
Nigeria’s Magnificat Maternal Health Project, said the study, “sheds
important light on the mental health of women,” and exposes the
“egregious cover-up of abortion complications” that are an aspect of
“the abortion distortion.”
“This review, which is larger than any study to date, contradicts
the recent and biased and less systematic review by the American
Psychological Association, which fails to find a relationship
between mental health problems and abortion,” Dr. Davenport wrote
today in the American Thinker.
“The new meta-analysis also contradicts the stance of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which has been
silent on the mental health impact of abortion in its official
publications despite overwhelming evidence over the last two decades
of abortion’s adverse effects.”
“By so powerfully linking abortion to mental health problems, the
Coleman study helps us comprehend the magnitude of the damage done
to entire nations by reckless, permissive abortion policies,” Dr.
Davenport concluded.
An abstract of the study titled “Abortion and mental health:
quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009”
with links to the full text is available on the British Journal of
Psychiatry website here.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/largest-ever-study-finds-abortion-increases-risk-of-severe-mental-health-pr/
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