Royal College of Psychiatrists Says Give Women Info On Abortion Related Mental Health Problems

The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that abortions should not be done unless women are counseled about the numerous mental health risks.  They said "Healthcare professionals who assess or refer women who are requesting an abortion should assess for mental disorder and for risk factors that may be associated with its subsequent development."  Updated brochures should be given to women considering an abortion to include the mental health problems so many women encounter.  “Consent cannot be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information regarding the possible risks.”

Well, it's obvious that abortion impacts women's mental health, that is to everyone except those int he aboriton industry and the American Psychological Association.  This kind of report could not happen in the United States because the APA is committed to abortion and cares more about political correctness and abortion militancy than the women and families who will suffer for abortion. 

They are no different than the cancer institutes who know about the connection between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer.  How can so many studies show a connection between abortion and mental health problems and a breast cancer connection except that they are committed to the premise that abortion is a fundamental good and could not possibly do any harm to women? 

Studies from all over the world show that abortion is a mental health detriment.  Read more about it at www.unfairchoice.info.

Here’s more on this story out of Britain and recent information on abortion related mental health problems at Life News.com.

“As recently as December, a new Australian study showed women who have abortions are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol compared with those who carry a pregnancy to term.

“Kaeleen Dingle, of the University of Queensland, found that women who have abortions were three times more likely to abuse hard drugs like heroin or meth than women who were never pregnant or kept their baby.

“The women who had abortions were also twice as likely to be an alcoholic or engage in binge drinking and 1.5 times more likely to suffer from depression.

“‘So these women, from my findings, seem to be definitely more affected in some ways,’" Dingle concluded. “Her study follows on a January 2006 one from a New Zealand professor who found women who have abortions are more likely to become severely depressed.

“Some 42 percent of the women who had abortions had experienced major depression within the last four years. That's almost double the rate of women who never became pregnant. The risk of anxiety disorders also doubled.

“The group's comment comes after one woman said she regretted her abortion 40 years later and another who committed suicide after having an abortion of her twin babies.”

No Hope For Unborn And Pre-Maturely Born With Obama

We know presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is no friend of life and would be a disaster for the pro-life cause, but what about presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, the messenger of hope?

There's no hope for unborn children or for children born prematurely with Obama. Obama is a radical abortion supporter who would support Partial Birth Abortion and limited infanticide.

Obama is an abortion radical who not only has pledged to sign the "Freedom of Choice Act" which would undo every federal and state law on abortion including tax payer abortion funding bans, parental involvement laws, conscience laws, the partial birth abortion ban, informed consent, political free speech rights and etc, Obama also opposed a Born Alive Infant Protection Act when he was a State Senator in Illinois.

The Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed in 2002 and ensures that infants, who are born alive at any stage of development, are individual human beings who are entitled to the full protections of the law. This law provides guaranteed legal protection whether or not the infant's delivery was natural or the result of an abortion. Nearly everyone supports this, but not Senator Obama.

The House and Senate, after initial opposition from NARAL Pro-Choice America, voted unanimously to pass the bill. In 2001, while still an Illinois State Senator, Obama was the sole opponent of a Born Alive Infants Protection bill. In 2003 a year after the Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed by the Congress, identical language was considered by an Illinois Senate committee. The committee's chairman led the attack that defeated the bill. That chairman was Barack Obama.

In Obama's world there's no hope for preborn children or children born preterm. Obama thinks protections for preterm born alive infants would undermine abortion rights and he is willing to sacrifice children born before full term on the altar of abortion. To qualify for hope in Obama's world, you have to be a wanted child born at full term.

There will be arguments from people claiming to be pro-life and anti-abortion to support Obama. But those are for another time.

We are in another important election for pro- lifers. We are near one of our most important goals, replacing pro-abortion Supreme Court justices with pro-life ones to overturn Roe. This is the day we have worked to see for decades. It's a moment that may not come for another generation.

Pro- lifers should be clear, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is no friend of life and would prevent pro-lifers from getting control of the Court and would sign legislation undoing pro-life laws and would use his powers to overturn pro-life policies.

Abortion Still Not Safe 35 Years After Becoming Legal

Nurse Jill Stanek who broke the story at Christ Hospital in Illinois that babies were being left to die without treatment, and who was a key witness for passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, has a column today at World Net Daily on her fourth annual abortionist of the year award.  Here are her contestants.  If you think abortion is safe now that is legal, think again.  Here are some from this year. 

Malachy DeHenre: Found guilty this January for murdering his wife after losing his medical license in Alabama, New York and Mississippi for botched abortions, rape, and death of a patient.
 

Alberto Hodari: Late-termer caught on videotape in November speaking to Medical Students for Choice at Wayne State University in Michigan, invited despite having been previously accused of killing two patients. Hodari bragged about lying to patients and families and not washing hands between abortions, among other grossities.
 

George Kabacy: Former Oregon Planned Parenthood slice-and-dicer who pleaded guilty in Washington state in November for engaging in and advertising child porn. Kabacy was also accused but never convicted of killing a patient.
 

Deborah Lyn Levich: Allowed her Alabama medical license to expire last January after being charged with letting non-physicians commit abortions, underestimating fetal gestational age, falsifying records, committing illegal abortions and failing to treat a patient in dire straits. Levich is still licensed to practice in Georgia.
 

Rapin Osathanondh: Surrendered his Massachusetts medical license voluntarily last month after allegedly killing 22-year-old Laura Smith in September with an anesthesia overdose.
 

James Pendergraft: Had his Florida license suspended one year in December and was fined $10,000 for committing an illegal late-term abortion that resulted in a brain-damaged baby. Previously imprisoned in 2001 for extortion. In 2005, one of his five clinics turned away paramedics responding to a call by a mother inside whose baby was aborted alive and allowed to die.
 

Laurence Reich: Charged in California last month for practicing medicine without a license after having it revoked in 2005 for molesting patients.
 

Hamid Hussain Sheikh: Indicted in November by Kentucky officials for defrauding Medicaid.
 

Sheldon Turkish: In a case making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Turkish has been charged for committing an abortion without informed consent, including lying that a patient was not carrying human life.

Read Stanek's column to find her winner.  Stanek notes that none of the abortion websites are promoting the The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers this year.  Little wonder why?

Former abortion clinic operator Carol Everett once told me that in the days before Roe, abortionists did better work.  They didn't want to get caught.  But she felt that today there's no reason to worry.  Abortion is legal.  How many women are going to tell anyone they were harmed by an abortion.  There's a built in blackmail.  Everett said Roe freed the abortionist, not women. 

Teacher Is Probably Toast After Showing Pro-life Movie

Life News.com reports that "A California science teacher has been placed on administrative leave after coming under fire following the showing of a pro-life film, The Silent Scream, that details an abortion procedure. First-year teacher Randy Yang showed the movie to five eighth-grade classes at Russell Middle School."

I suspect Yang is going to get in trouble since he doesn't have tenure in the school.   The teacher's union is in bed with the abortion lobby.  So Yang won't get much help.  When you think of the stuff kids are exposed to in school, abortion's probably no big deal.  They'll teach our kids everything they don't need to know about sex, but they don't want anyone knowing the truth about abortion and how it kills a baby. 

British Artist Commits Suicide After Aborting Twins

British Artist Emma Beck committed suicide after aborting her two twins.  Beck did not want the abortion, but her boyfriend pushed her into it.  Not much media sympathy here.  That's because abortion is a Golden Calf and it's worshipers cannot speak anything evil of this idol. 

I remember our second or third show on the old Voice for Life radio show with my co-host Toni Berry.  We had a post abortive woman on who had been suicidal and very depressed.  She told the psychiatrist that her problems were abortion related.  It didn't fit the psychiatrist's schema and she went unhelped.

Abortion advocates will pretty much say if there's a problem like this after abortion, there was something wrong with the woman ahead of time.  Talk about blaming the victim. 

Abortion kills a baby.  It also kills a part of the woman.  In one survey, 60 percent said "part of me died" after the abortion.   

Credit Bush For Stem Cell Discovery.

Here is an opinion I wrote for Nevada LIFE that was published in the Reno Gazette Journal earlier this month regarding the new stem cell technique that turns normal cells back to an embryonic-like pluripotent state wihtout killing embryos!  Researchers have done this in humans and grown them into the three cell layers of the body.  This is unbelievable news.  It undermines the need for embryonic stem cell research, kills the rationale for cloning, and President Bush deserves credit for sticking to his principles in the face of belittling comments from Harry Reid and others.  Here's the opinion.

Credit Bush for Stem Cell Discovery.

"The news that scientists were able to reprogram skin cells back into embryonic like-(pluripotent) cells and then turn them into each of the body's three cell layers without killing human embryos diminishes, if not ends, the argument for embryonic stem cell research that destroys embryos and the rationale for human cloning.

"One secret of embryonic stem cell research is that even if scientists used the embryos available in fertility labs, they would not create the genetic diversity necessary for mass cures. Human cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer) to create embryos for stem cells was thought to be necessary to overcome the problems of rejection and produce patient specific stem cell matches.

"This new discovery can achieve matches without cloning and without destroying human life because it reprograms a person's own cells and bypasses the complicated, expensive and immoral process of cloning.

"Now scientists should have stem cells with the properties they said for years that they needed for regenerative medicine. But after years of saying that embryonic stem cell research that destroys human embryos was the only or best option, who would have believed this discovery? President Bush.

"When President Bush vetoed an embryonic stem cell bill that would have led to more killing of human embryos, Sen. Harry Reid accused the president of "putting politics ahead of safe, responsible science." He said the veto was a "most un-American thing by turning his back on science." Bush was "putting the politics of his narrow ideology ahead of saving lives," had decided that curing diseases "was not as important as catering to his right-wing base," vetoed the bill "with the health and hope of millions of Americans hanging in the balance," and said "our best scientists continue to work with one hand tied behind their back."

"Congressman Edward Markey said the veto would "be remembered as a Luddite moment in American history." Local activists said Bush vetoed hope for sufferers.

"But while Reid was trashing the president, the "Luddite-narrow ideology" president was talking about the possibility of this new technology and funding efforts like this by presidential directive when Congress would not.

"The president was a visionary leader and believed in the resourcefulness of scientists. He deserves credit for insisting on ethical research. Had he not, more time and resources would have been spent on research that destroys human life, has not worked as scientists had hoped and appears to be ending.

"With this discovery, it's time to pass the Brownback-Landrieu cloning ban and ban all human cloning.

"This discovery, along with the incredible breakthroughs with non-embryonic stem cell research, is something we can all celebrate. Ethical science is good science."

Muscle cell therapy repairs damaged heart

The AP in Japan reports that a man who was waiting for a heart transplant was treated with his own stem cells and has now returned to a normal life.  One case doesn't make a therapy, but it is good news. 

If this was an embryonic stem cell success, it would be on the front page of every paper in the world.  Bioethicist Wesley Smith believes that the new stem cell technique, which regresses/reverts ordinary skin cells back to a pluripotent state (embryonic stem cells are believed to be pluripotent and can become any kind of cell) has popped the balloon on embryonic stem cell research.  He believes there's been an embargo on stories like this to promote the need for embryonic stem cell research.  Now that scientists have the same kinds of cells, he thinks we'll see more of this.  I don't know.  But, if he's right this is good news because there is more going on than the public could ever know. 

Do No Harm notes that there are over 70 applications using non-embryonic stem cell research and there are over 1000 trials.  Anyway, this story out of Japan is good news and hopefully we'll see more.