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Anti-Choice groups are targeting The Girl Scouts
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RE: Anti-Choice groups are targeting The Girl Scouts
(March 6, 2014 at 10:01 pm)DamianThomas Wrote: Sorry, but that is absolute bullshit. Although anti abortion fanatics love to spread those lies to scare women away from abortion, ACTUAL evidence indicates the exact opposite:

In 1987, President Reagan asked Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to study the topic of alleged “post-abortion syndrome.” Despite powerful political pressure to identify such a syndrome, and his own personal anti-choice beliefs, Dr. Koop concluded that “the data do not support the premise that abortion does or does not cause or contribute to psychological problems.”

A 1992 American Psychological Association (APA) review found that severe negative psychological reactions to abortion are rare and that the vast majority of women experience a mixture of emotions after an abortion, with positive feelings predominating.

The findings were reaffirmed in 2008 after a 2-year review of the “best scientific evidence published,” APA’s Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion found that women who choose abortion are at no greater risk for mental-health problems.

A 1997 longitudinal study showed that the experience of abortion has no independent effect on the psychological well-being of a woman.
(Source: S. Edwards, Abortion Study Finds No Long-Term Ill Effects on Emotional Well-Being, 29 FAM.PLAN. PERSP. 193, 193-94 (1997).)

A study published in 2000 revealed that two years after the procedure, 72 percent of the women surveyed were satisfied with their decision to have an abortion, 69 percent said they would have the abortion again and 72 percent reported more benefit than harm from their abortion. The small proportion of women who did experience problems tended to have a prior history of depression. (Source: Brenda Major et al., Psychological Responses of Women After First-Trimester Abortion, 57 ARCHIVES GEN.
PSYCHIATRY 777, 777-784 (2000).
All you've done is parrot back the "results" from studies you were spoon-fed, and furthermore you only concerned yourself with Americans.

Did you know for instance that alcohol is much much worse for Aborigines than for Anglo Saxons?

Did you know for instance that Indians, Africans and South Asians who are just a little bit overweight are much more at risk at developing Type 2 Diabetes than an Anglos Saxon that is a little bit overweight? In fact, you could actually conduct a study comprised of your choice of Anglo Saxon's to prove that being a small amount overweight won't increase the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes. And that would be a form of deliberate data mining. And Type 2 Diabetes is 1. recognized as preventable, and 2. recognized as a global pandemic and especially in India and South Asia.

So I'll ask you a question - if you saw a study that proved that Post Abortion Stress Syndrome is a very real threat, would your opinion change?
Quote:Another clueless statement. Many women who have had to give their children away suffer lifelong issues. Post Adoption Syndrome/Depression is actually a recognized issue.
So what? Chronic Fatigue is a recognized syndrome, and yet in America studies showed that in at least 30% of medically diagnosed cases of CF that the symptoms were in fact caused by intestinal worms.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK

The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK


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Anti-Choice groups are targeting The Girl Scouts - by No_God - February 27, 2014 at 10:28 am
RE: Anti-Choice groups are targeting The Girl Scouts - by Aractus - March 6, 2014 at 10:53 pm

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