Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? Emily, Do You Really Need to Ask?

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The title of the January 21 cover story in the New York Times Magazine, "Is there a Post-Abortion Syndrome?" suggests the article will address the strength of the available scientific evidence on the topic, which has obvious bearing on recent and future legislation. Instead, what Emily Bazelon, granddaughter of pro-abortion judge David L. Bazelon and the cousin of pro-abortion feminist Betty Friedan, offers is an unconvincing circuitous voyage around the recent and rapidly accumulating scientific evidence that clearly show the negative psychological consequences of abortion. [More]

Once again we have an untrained, non-professional person using weak studies (loaded with confounds) attempting to interpret things via her own limited and distorted perceptions on the situation. Even a simple B.S. degree in psychology, biology, or social work might give a tiny amount of credence to what Ms. Emily is saying, yet she does not even possess the minimal amount of training necessary to evaluate the data nor to understand the personal trauma that women deal with following an abortion, Of course, the fact that millions of women around the world are reporting and exhibiting symptoms of post-abortion syndrome means absolutely nothing.

Insulting suggestions, condescenion? Women who have had abortions don't need this kind of grief - they have enough on their plates. Most women who have had abortions have done it out of desperation and because women like you, Ms Bazelon, have not told them the truth.
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  1. Anonymous2/3/07, 10:26 AM

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).


    The essential feature of "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" is the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience.

    Many things can cause PTSD. War can be a trigger, as can abortion, in fact any significant traumatic experience can do it.

    In people who have experienced a traumatic event, about 8% of men and 20% of women develop PTSD after a trauma.

    Symptoms of PTSD can include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders ("triggers"), irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response, clinical depression and anxiety, loss of appetite, powerlessness, hopelessness and profound guilt, just to name a few.

    Many of us may be susceptible given a harrowing enough experience.

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