Regarding the following:

This is yet another example of the lies that pro-aborts will uise to keep the killing of unborn children legal. They say there is no such thing as Post Abortion Syndrome. If there isn't, then there is no such thing as GUILT, but we all know that guilt exists.

The threshold of guilt differs in people. The closer a person is to the bowels of hell, the more their guilt diminishes.

So why is their guilt when one has an abortion? THEY HAD THEIR OWN CHILD KILLED. Of course most women will suffer from PAS.

To not feel any guilt at all for snuffing out the life of your own child you wouild have to be a robot, or a disciple of the devil.

Besides, you can't believe anthing these callous pro-aborts say. Remember, before Roe vs Wade, they said that 5-10 thousand woman died every year from botched abortions.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who was one of the original leaders of the American pro-abortion movement and co-founder of N.A.R.A.L. (National Abortion Rights Action League), and who has since become pro-life, admits that he and others in the abortion rights movement intentionally fabricated the number of women who allegedly died as result of illegal abortions.

He said, "I confess they were totally false, but in the 'morality' of the revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics. The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason which had to be done was permissible."

The truth is, that in 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade, only 39 abortion related deaths were reported, by emergency rooms and morgues, to the Centers for Disease Control. More women die now from complications and risks of abortions than before Roe v. Wade.

So, how can you believe anything pro-aborts say? Lying is nothing new to them -- it's their way of life. What's lying compared to being a party to the killing of little children?

Also, if there is no sush thing as PAS, then why do some abortion mills choose to include it in their consent forms, as well as other risks of an abortion?

Planned Parenthood of Australia's website includes consent documents that acknowledge a list of risks associated with abortion, including "depression or mood disturbance, suicide," "a tear in the cervix that may require stitches," "Infections," "incompetent cervix/stenosed cervix (too tight or too loose cervix which may impair future fertility)".

The San Antonio clinic, A Woman's Choice Quality Health Center, included the following warnings on its consent documents in 2001: "bleeding with the possibility of requiring further surgery & or damage to the bladder, bowel, blood vessel; perforation (hole in) uterus &/or damage to the bladder, bowel, blood vessel; abdominal incision & operation to correct the injury; infection of female organs: uterus, tubes, ovaries; sterility or being incapable of bearing children; incompetent cervix; failure to remove all products of the conception; continuation of the pregnancy; depression or 'theblues'; post abortion stress syndrome; possible increased lifetime risk of breast cancer."

Frank Joseph MD

DrFrank@abortiontruths,net

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New York Times Presents Abortion Rhetoric on PAS the Day Before March for Life

By Hilary White

NEW YORK, January 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The existence of post-abortion syndrome, a set of psychopathological reactions in women who have had abortions, was the focus of a cover story, "Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?" in the January 21 edition of the New York Times; the day before the annual March for Life in Washington.

In keeping with the abortion and feminist movement's doctrine that abortion is a healthy "choice," Emily Bazelon scoffs at the idea that a woman, after paying a doctor to kill her child, might suffer some predictable, long-term psychological damage. Her points match those of feminist writers and abortion lobbyists who deny the existence of Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) as an article of faith.

MS. Magazine, the venerable organ of the radical feminist movement, published an article by Cynthia L. Cooper saying, "It's a made-up term." Cooper wrote that PAS is "not recognized as an official syndrome or diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, or any other mainstream authority, it is a bogus affliction invented by the religious right."

Echoing this, Bazelon, the granddaughter of pro-abortion judge David L. Bazelon and the cousin of feminist grande dame Betty Friedan, writes, "The idea that abortion is at the root of women's psychological ills is not supported by the bulk of the research." She goes on to indicate that PAS is a politically motivated and bogus disorder indulged in by women unable to cope realistically with other problems in life.

This matches precisely the language used by the major players in the abortion lobby. The National Abortion Federation writes on its website, "Mainstream medical opinions, like that of the American Psychological Association, agree there is no such thing as 'post-abortion syndrome'."

In reality, PAS, Bazelon says, is part of a cynical political strategy by pro-life advocates using gullible women to shift the focus of the debate from the sanctity of the unborn child to the damage abortion does to women. "With that conviction, these activists hope to accomplish what the anti-abortion movement has failed to do for more than three decades: persuade the 'mushy middle' of the American electorate."

But PAS, also known as post-traumatic abortion syndrome and abortion trauma syndrome, has a well-documented set of symptoms and some researchers have said the evidence has been deliberately suppressed in the medical community out of political bias.

Until the 1994 edition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III-R) published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), included abortion in its list of life stressors that could induce some kind of post-traumatic stress disorder, along with illness, surgery or accidental injury. The next edition, the DSM-IV, published in 1994, had dropped abortion from this list.

Whether abortion was removed from the list due to pressure from the abortion lobby, is a matter of dispute but the lockstep nature of assertions from the abortion lobby, the New York Times, MS., and the medical community is not likely to be a coincidence.

In 2006, the APA, ostensibly an objective, disinterested medical association, admitted in the Washington Times that it supports legalized abortion from an ideological, not a medical viewpoint as a civil right and has done so since 1969.

In February 2006, the Springfield, Il., Eliot Institute reported on a study done by a group of New Zealand researchers, led by a pro-abortion scientist, who discovered that strong evidence exists to support PAS but has been deliberately suppressed by the APA.

The study tracked 25 years worth of data on women born in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the largest studies conducted to date. Even after the researchers controlled for alternative explanations, abortion was clearly linked to elevated rates of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal behaviour.

After examining previous studies cited by the APA and other PAS detractors, the New Zealand researchers concluded that the APA appeared to be consistently deliberately ignoring a body of studies published in the last seven years that have shown negative psychiatric effects from abortion.

Bazelon quotes Dr. Nancy Felipe Russo, in support of the idea that there is no such thing as PAS, but Russo, the APA spokesman on women's issues, has admitted that the APA's position on abortion was established on the view that abortion is a civil right. A Washington Times column quoted Russo saying that the Christchurch study would have no effect on the APA's position because "to pro-choice advocates, mental health effects are not relevant to the legal context of arguments to restrict access to abortion."

The leading researcher on PAS, David Reardon of the Eliot Institute, comes under particular attack by Bazelon who implies that he has no qualifications to do the work. She dismisses him saying, "He is said to have a doctorate in biomedical ethics from Pacific Western University, an unaccredited correspondence school."

Bazelon says Dr. Nancy Russo now devotes "much of her time" examining Reardon's research for methodological flaws. Bazelon declines to mention the existence of the New Zealand research.

Reardon's work, however, combined with the damning evidence from the New Zealand group together with publicity generated by the recent highly visible "Silent No More" campaign and counseling services like Project Rachel, seems to be having some effect.

The APA, writes Bazelon, has "convened a new task force to review the more recent scientific literature about the effects of abortion; the panel will issue findings in 2008."

According to Reardon, however, past task forces convened by the APA have been heavily weighted by researchers who share the APA's position that legal abortion is a civil right not subject to negative analysis.

Read the New York Times Article:

Is There a Post Abortion Syndrome?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21abortion.t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

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