Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers by Alcorn Randy

Author:Alcorn, Randy [Alcorn, Randy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hendrickson Pub
Published: 2012-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

More than 80 percent said it was very unlikely they would have aborted if they had not been so strongly encouraged to abort by others, including their abortion counselors.

Eighty-three percent said they would have carried to term if they had received support from boyfriends, families, or other important people in their lives. [53]

Surely every woman deserves better than what abortion gives her. And surely she deserves not to lose what is taken from her—her own child.

Notes

[1] Serrin M. Foster, “Women Deserve Better than Abortion,” Respect Life, 2003.

[2] Quoted in Mary Meehan, “The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit,” Human Life Review (Spring–Summer 2000), 12.

[3] Ibid., 23.

[4] Priscilla Coleman, “Abortion and Mental Health: Quantitative Synthesis and Analysis of Research Published 1995–2009,” British Journal of Psychiatry 199 (September 2011): 180–86, http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.abstract.

[5] Jim Coyne, PhD, “More on Review Claiming Abortion Hurts Women’s Mental Health,” Psychology Today blog, November 15, 2011, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-sleuth/201111/more-review-claiming-abortion-hurts-womens-mental-health.

[6] Priscilla Coleman, “Re: Abortion and Mental Health,” British Journal of Psychiatry BJP Online, November 17, 2011, http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.abstract/reply#bjrcpsych_el_34290.

[7] Joseph A. D’Agostino, “Abortion Causes Massive Mental Health Problems for Women,” Human Events, January 30, 2006, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=11966&keywords=abortion+ectopic+pregnancy.

[8] Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 34; also, David C. Reardon, Making Abortion Rare , Acorn Books, 1996; excerpt, http://afterabortion.org/MAR/IGCHAP6.htm, fn 4).

[9] For this and other studies, see Elliot Institute, www.afterabortion.org.

[10] David C. Reardon, “Major Psychological Sequelae of Abortion” (Elliot Institute, 1997).

[11] Susan Babbel, PhD, MFT, “Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS)—Does It Exist?,” Psychology Today blog, October 25, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/somatic-psychology/201010/post-abortion-stress-syndrome-pass-does-it-exist.

[12] “Tearing Down the Wall,” LifeSupport, Spring–Summer 1991,1–3. “Women Exploited by Abortion, Nancy Jo Mann’s Story,” from David Reardon, Aborted Women, Silent No More, posted by United Families International blog, April 14, 2009, http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/women-exploited-by-abortion-nancyjo-mann%E2%80%99s-story.

[13] See Randy Alcorn, ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2000), 118–20, 285–86.

[14] Free information and counseling is available via Life Issues Institute, www.lifeissues.org/men/; also Abortion Is the Unchoice, http://theunchoice.org/men.htm; Silent No More Awareness, accessed January 4, 2012, http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/resources/.

[15] Angela Lanfranchi, MD, “The Science, Studies and Sociology of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link,” Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change, Research Bulletin 18, no. 2 (Spring 2005), http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/June2005.pdf.

[16] Elizabeth Shadigian, MD, testimony before the Senate subcommittee on science, technology, and space’s hearing to investigate the physical and psychological effects of abortion on women; cited in “Witnesses Ask U.S. Senate for Research into Side Effects of Abortion on Women,” Culture & Cosmos 1, no. 30 (March 9, 2004).

[17] Laura Blue, “Study Links Abortion and Premies,” Time, December 18, 2007, citing the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1695927,00.html.

[18] Brent Rooney and Byron C. Calhoun, MD, “Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 8, no. 2 (Summer 2003), http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf.

[19] Brent Rooney et al., “Does Induced Abortion Account for Racial Disparity in Preterm Births, and Violate the Nuremberg Code?,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 13, no. 4 (Winter 2008), http://www.jpands.org/vol13no4/rooney.pdf.

[20] S. Linn, “The Relationship between Induced Abortion and Outcome of Subsequent Pregnancies,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, May 15, 1983, 136–40.

[21] John A.

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