Originally Posted by Catus Felidae

Her father was off making babies with his new wife.

Originally Posted by Grace

Just to show the hypocracy of you people toting "equal rights" There is nothing equal about it.

Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos

Originally Posted by Catus Felidae

Tell your 'bs' to them.



1987-1990 APA Task Force Review

When Koop was assigned to review information on abortion, he invited input from any individuals and organizations with material to present."[16][14] The American Psychological Association Division on Population and Environmental Psychology prepared and presented to Koop their own summary of the literature and recommendations for his report. After Koop refused to issue the findings, division members published a synthesis of their own findings in which they concluded that "Case studies have established that some women experience severe distress or psychopathology after abortion" but "severe negative reactions are infrequent in the immediate and short-term aftermath, particularly for first-trimester abortions. Women who are terminating pregnancies that are wanted and personally meaningful, who lack support from their partner or parents for the abortion, or who have more conflicting feelings or are less sure of their decision before hand may be a relatively higher risk for negative consequences." [14]
The task force further concluded that "research with diverse samples, different measures of response, and different times of assessment have come to similar conclusions. The time of greatest distress is likely to be before the abortion. Severe negative reactions after abortions are rare and can best be understood in the framework of coping with normal life stress," and that "The weight of the evidence does not pose a psychological hazard for most women." [14]
Nancy Adler, professor of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, has testified on behalf of the APA that "severe negative reactions are rare and are in line with those following other normal life stresses."[18]
In 2007, APA established a new task force to review studies on abortion published since 1989. The new task force report is expected to be published in 2008.[19]

[edit] Journal of the American Medical Association

Psychiatrist Nada Stotland of the University of Chicago, current president of the American Psychiatric Association, argued in a 1992 commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): "There is no evidence of an abortion-trauma syndrome.”[10] In 2003, Stotland wrote, "Currently, there are active attempts to convince the public and women considering abortion that abortion frequently has negative psychiatric consequences. This assertion is not borne out by the literature: the vast majority of women tolerate abortion without psychiatric sequelae."[8]


I know that anti choicer's would like to believe that women who abort suffer horribly for it, but it's just not true.

Originally Posted by Catus Felidae

We're not toting 'equal rights'. Your side is the one who keeps screaming about 'equal rights'. Abortion has nothing to do with 'equal rights'. It has to do with not allowing the government to make personal medical decisions for women.

Originally Posted by Grace

I know for a fact they do, I literaly know of hundreds. I have NEVER meet a women who has had a abortion (for the first time) who hasnt been a total basket case for some time after. This crap is written by Doctors to stand to lose millions of dollars should they tell women that it will hurt them mentaly. Its not what I believe, its what I have seen first hand, SEVERAL times.

Originally Posted by Catus Felidae

I've escorted over 80 women to the clinic. The only one who had any kind of 'post abortion emotional trauma' was a melodramatic teenage drama queen who could get emotionally devastated by a broken fingernail.

Originally Posted by OhDear

Originally Posted by Grace

It isnt a personal medical decision. It effects all kinds of people from the father, to his family, to the child him/her self. If its so personal, why do so many people get hurt??