Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Posted on 09/29/2005 6:13:02 PM PDT by wagglebee
Abortions and drug abuse once again have been linked, according to a study co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and reported by Christian Wire Service.
Drug abuse is three times more common during a subsequent pregnancy among women who have had abortions in the past than among those who have never ended a pregnancy. However, there is no evidence of the trend among women who experienced miscarriages or stillbirths.
Research suggests that subsequent pregnancies may cause women to experience unresolved grief about past abortions. To mask such feelings, these women depend on drugs.
"Whatever the individual experience," said Dr. David Reardon, "it is clear that pregnant women with a history of abortion are at a greater risk of trying to suppress their turbulent emotions by relying on more alcohol, cigarettes or illegal drugs." Reardon, director of the Elliot Institute, helped collect data along with researchers from Bowling State University and the University of Texas.
The findings of the study paralleled those of 21 other studies that connect abortions to an increased rate of substance abuse.
And the baby butchers will never feel the need to disclose this to the women who enter their abortion mills.
Abortion ping.
This seems like a faulty correlation.
It could be that women who live in such a way to start a pregnancy they do not want or can not handle, would also be more likely to do drugs.
People are not usually irresponsible in one area of their lives and responsible in others.
This smells of sloppy science.
Do you think that maybe people whose lives are screwed up, and who lack a strong moral foundation might have more abortions AND do more drugs? That seems more plausible than abortions causing massively increased drug abuse.
Of course, a study might be designed to determine whether this is a correlation or causation, but this one doesn't seem to be.
This smells of sloppy science.
Do you think that maybe people whose lives are screwed up, and who lack a strong moral foundation might have more abortions AND do more drugs? That seems more plausible than abortions causing massively increased drug abuse.
Of course, a study might be designed to determine whether this is a correlation or causation, but this one doesn't seem to be.
It's even possible that gals who get drunk or stoned alot, wind up with more unwanted pregnancies, so if there is causation, it might even be the other way.
I was about to raise the same notion, but you've far exceeded my meager words. Bravo. ["Research suggests that subsequent pregnancies may cause women to experience unresolved grief about past abortions. To mask such feelings, these women depend on drugs." Or were already users and happened to get preggars, and having seered consciences, felt no remorse at terminating the 'pregnancy disease' and went right on with their risky substance abuse behavior.]
Moral Absolutes Ping.
You think the MSM will ever report any bad news connected with abortion? What's that you say? Ah, you all agree. Since killing unborn babies is one of the main unholy sacraments of the left (that and sodomy), no blasphemy is allowed by their assistants in the MSM.
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Angelfire ping.
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