A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that women who get abortions show no signs of increased mental health problems after having an abortion – and that in fact, it's women who are denied an abortion that suffer more greatly.
The study, called the “Turnaway Study” was conducted by researchers from University of California – San Francisco (UCSF) and tracked 956 women from 21 states for more than five years. The women – all of whom had sought abortion – were interviewed once a week after seeking out an abortion, and then every six months for that five year period.
Antonia Biggs and Diana Greene Foster, two of the researchers who wrote the study, told CNA in a statement that in their study, women who were denied abortions had more mental health repercussions – like anxiety, lower self-esteem and less life satisfaction, in the short-term than women who had abortions. The study also found that by six months these rates of mental health consequences were similar. Both groups of women had “ similar levels of depressive symptoms over the entire five year period,” of the study the researchers commented.
“We found no evidence of increases in mental health problems after having an abortion,” they added.
Now, is it possible, just possible that the results of this study might be questionable on the basis that it was conducted by so-called researchers affiliated with perhaps the most liberal and aggressively feminist universities in the country?
Major news outlets touted the newsworthiness of this story. But, real news would have been made if two female researchers from UCSF would have found that women who had abortions suffered severe psychological repercussions in later life.
The fact is that the findings of the study had most likely been determined before any research interview had been conducted.
Anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence can see through the lies and distortions of this study. Under the guise of scientific research, these two pro-abortion self-described “researchers" have attempted to perpetrate another scam as they push their political agenda in support of the culture of death forward.
Perhaps, real research regarding the psychological-emotional consequences upon women who had aborted their unborn children would have included those closest to them in their relationships: husbands, parents, extended family members, friends and acquaintances.
Perhaps, some honest research on the subject would have included pastors and counselors who have assisted women as they cope with the grief and remorse at having aborted their unborn children.
Having served as a Priest and Pastor of souls for over 40 years, I can attest to the fact that women who had abortions suffer a terrible sense of self-recrimination and guilt as grow older. Post-menopausal women show even greater signs of spiritual and psychological disorientation.
Especially when death seems imminent, women who have chosen to abort their unborn children feel a sense of fear and foreboding that oftentimes reaches to the point of despair, fearing as they do the eternal punishment at having taken innocent human life.
It is a pity that we life at a time when political coercion and deception trumps honest research and study. What is re-assuring is that hacks like these two pro-abortion feminists are so bad at their lying that the majority of intelligent and reasonable persons are able to easily see through the veil of deception and see the lies for what they are.
I, for one of many, won’t be holding my breath for the publication of future studies of any kind published under the auspices of the University of California at San Francisco.
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