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Suicides After Abortion Remain High Despite Better Screening Guidelines

12/11/2014 Officials in Finland Concerned About Increased Risk of Suicide After Abortion; Calls for Action in Australia and the U.S. Voluntary guidelines for post-abortion mental health evaluations during the month following an abortion have failed to significantly decrease the rate of suicide after abortion in Finland, according to a new study. Finland adopted the guidelines […]

“Nobody Cares” About Black Women Who Die From Abortions

Once again, Christina Dunigan has provided some valuable information in a post at the RealChoice blog. Here she is posting about the disproportionate number of black women who die from abortions — and the lack of concern shown by those who claim that “black lives matter:” Blacks comprise about 13 percent of the US population, […]

Illegal Abortion Myths: “Septic Abortion Wards”

Another illegal abortion myth, debunked by Christina Dunigan at Real Choice: Dr. Doug Laube of Wisconsin is one of the many abortion practitioners who repeats hoary old tales of septic abortion wards. In an interview with Feministe’s Clarisse Thorn, he in fact made a rather outrageous claim that before legalization, not only were there entire wards in […]

They’re Still Trying to Disprove Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome

10/28/14 By Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D. On October 6th an article titled “Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth?,” written by Zawn Villines, appeared on GoodTherapy.org. In order to address the question she poses, Villines does not focus on the large international body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence indicating that abortion increases women’s risk of experiencing mental […]

Legal or Illegal, Women Still Die from Abortion

Real Choice reports today on the death from abortion of 37-year-old Carole Schaner on October 20, 1971, by Dr. Jesse Ketchum: Ketchum was a former criminal abortionist from Ypsilanti, Michigan who had relocated to New York specifically to open an abortion practice [after New York legalized abortion]. He had allowed another abortion patient, Margaret Smith, to bleed […]

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