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Friday, December 05, 2008

Of course when were the fetophile anti-sex crowd concerned with, uh, reality?
Posted by Jill | 6:16 AM
So much for the notion that women have to be protected from the lifelong psychological damage caused by abortion:
No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, or a "post-abortion syndrome," and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reviewed 21 studies involving more than 150,000 women and found the high-quality studies showed no significant differences in long-term mental health between women who choose to abort a pregnancy and others.

"The best research does not support the existence of a 'post-abortion syndrome' similar to post-traumatic stress disorder," Dr. Robert Blum, who led the study published in the journal Contraception, said in a statement.

"Based on the best available evidence, emotional harm should not be a factor in abortion policy. If the goal is to help women, program and policy decisions should not distort science to advance political agendas," added Vignetta Charles, a researcher and doctoral student at Johns Hopkins who worked on the study.


Now we can file that away under "belaboring the obvious."

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Oops, I see that wasn't you but minstrel boy. Need more coffee
12/5/08, 6:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So much for the notion that women have to be protected from the lifelong psychological damage caused by abortion:

Duh! Anytime the radical right expresses concern for women it really means concern *about* women, like that women might act in their own best interests.
12/5/08, 10:00 AM  
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