Comments on: David Fergusson reacts to the APA Mental Health and Abortion task force report

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:48:22 +0000

Pat Goltz,

Thank you – I appreciate everything you said in your comment.

By: Pat Goltz

Pat Goltz — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:05:45 +0000

It is self-evident to anybody with common sense that abortion would cause significant emotional harm in women. Women have already bonded subconsciously with their babies in several ways. They instinctively know that they are carrying their own child. Abortion is a deep and violent invasion of a woman’s body, and in the majority of cases, it’s coerced. It is also usually based on at least some fraud concerning warning a woman about the dangers.

I personally suffered severe emotional consequences from ALMOST having an abortion. I can only imagine what happens to women who actually have one. I have talked to women who were suicidal after abortion. Sadly, I don’t think I was able to dissuade some of them. I never heard from them again.

We shouldn’t be subjecting millions of women to the plight of being used as guinea pigs without their informed consent, simply because some politically powerful people have agendas that are not in the best interests of women. This is the sort of thing that should NOT be done without strong evidence it is BENEFICIAL. We women deserve better.

By: Bruce Clyne

Bruce Clyne — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:55:33 +0000

It is felt by some that there is not enough research on the subject to determin that there is little or no effect on women from a single abortion. To ignore the testimony of even a few women who have had an abortion and are suffering daily from the after effects of that abortion degrades those women and assigns them to a default catagory of women who had a problem prior to the abortion. Not having evidence to support this is irresponsible. These same women now need assistance and that abortion is part of their story and has to be considered in any treatment modality. Can we say then that all alcoholics had no previous problems prior to being introduced to alcohol? Then let us treat them and disallow any knoledge of treatment methods that are proven post behavior.

Please, please let us not disreguard proven treatment modalities for other problems because the subject is “hot” at the time. Professionalism and not politically and personaly bias have no room here.

By: ken

ken — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:04:20 +0000

Can anyone tell me what the “very strong and dogmatic conclusion” the APA had reached in its report?

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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:49:54 +0000

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