Posted on 12/01/2005 4:19:46 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SPRINGFIELD, IL, December 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Compared to women who have not been pregnant in the prior year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion, according to a new 13-year study of the entire population of women in Finland.
The study also found that majority of the extra deaths among women who had abortions were due to suicide. The suicide rate among women who had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the prior year and double that of women who had miscarriages.
The epidemiological study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, was conducted by Finland's National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES). The researchers looked at data between 1987 and 2000 on all deaths among women of reproductive age (15 to 49).
While the risk of death from suicide, accidents, and homicide was highest among women who had abortions within the prior year, the risk of death was lowest among women who gave birth within the prior year, who had less than half the death rate of women who had not been pregnant. The risk of death following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, however, did not significantly differ from the risk of death among non-pregnant women.
The new study confirms findings from previous record-based studies carried out in Finland and the United States that have found elevated risks of death among women who have abortions. A 1997 government-funded study in Finland found that aborting women were 3.5 times more likely to die within the next year compared to women who gave birth.
In addition, researchers examining death records linked to medical payments for birth and abortion for 173,000 California women found that aborting women were 62 percent more likely to die than delivering women over the eight year period examined. That study also found that the increase risk of death was most prominent from suicides and accidents, with a 154 percent higher risk of death from suicide and an 82 percent higher risk of death from accidental injuries.
The lead author of the California study, David Reardon, Ph.D., said that record-linkage studies are vital to getting an accurate picture of pregnancy-associated mortality rates. "In most cases, coroners simply have no way of knowing that the deceased recently had an abortion, which is why these new record linkage studies are so important," he said.
Indeed, another recent study by government health officials in Finland found that 94 percent of maternal deaths associated with abortion could not be identified by looking at death certificates alone. This finding applies to the data published by the Centers for Disease Control in the United States.
Previous studies have also linked abortion to higher rates of substance abuse, anxiety, sleep disorders, suicidal thoughts, psychiatric illness, relationship problems, and risk-taking behavior, any of which may increase a women's risk of death by suicide or accident. The authors of the new Finland study also speculated that there might be common risk factors.
You don't have to have exceptional antennae to pick up on the fact that most women know what most men ignore. Killing kids involves killing kids, no matter how you stir the words.It is ugly businesses.
Is Post Abortion Syndrome for real? The extreme cases
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey - Fulltext: Volume 52(7) July 1997
So much for abortion being 'therapy'.
Pro-choicers don't appreciate verifiable science getting in the way of their sexual liberation. Expect this to be ignored.
bump for you.
We're ALL pro-choice. Shouldn't we be referring to "anti-lifers"?
There's a strange symmetry to these statistical revelations.
It's because of the guilt trip laid on them by right wing fanatics. /sarc
Please remember that a disproportionate number of women who have abortions have messed up lives already - short term, tenuous, possibly violent sexual relationships, poor planning ability, drug or alcohol abuse, poverty - general fecklessness.
You would have to make sure you had comparable populations - you could at least look at college girls for instance, or women on welfare - but even if you controlled for socio-economic factors the women who have abortions are still more likely to be messed-up to start with.
I was worried about credibility when I read the headline. But since I doubt there's any hint of conservative bias in Finland, I'd say it's objectivity oughtn't be doubted simply because of it's conclusions.
I agree with this totally.
They needed a study to tell them this??
Wolf
I can see their being depressed because they were deserted by the father of the child...and then when the baby is also gone they really have nothing at all to live for.
I wonder what the suicide rates were prior to legalization of abortion in Finland? Women pregnant with no emotional/financial support, did they also kill themselves at an increased rate, or did having the baby inside give them a reason to live and a reason not to harm themselves and the child collaterally?
It would be interesting to know more about this.
That's a good point. Thank you for pointing that out. Though I don't know the size of the sample, we're talking a population of about 40 million and rising. I bet you find plenty of hard cases that show up at the neighborhood Planned Parenthood, but then you find plenty of upper-middle class women who have it all together and just find a baby inconvenient or embarrassing.
This is somehow a surprise?!
I have no doubt that post-abortion guilt is part of what motivates the shrillness of the pro abortion forces. Killing another random person is one thing. Killing someone who had a special claim on your protection is altogether different.
If someone has a heart, they will either need to come to terms with that guilt or develop an emotional strategy that allows them to explain the act away. It's easier to lie to yourself and say "abortion isn't just a necessary evil, its a positive good- a thing to proud of" than to say "it was a mistake to kill my child."
Someone who is fighting that corrosive inner struggle can't tolerate even a whiff of a pro-life sentiment. IMHO that is a big part of how we went from Roe V Wade's claim of "safe, legal, and rare" abortions to abortion as a secular sacrament of the feminist left.
A lot of women use pregnancy to trap a man. To force him to commit. And an abortion is what happens when the man says, "take a hike, not my problem" after the woman says, "I'm pregnant". So it is abortion compounded by heartbreak and the humiliating fact that she will never be more than a booty call to this man.
What you described, that process, is exactly what happened in the slaveholding portion of the United States.
It went from an institution recognized as evil but necessary TEMPORARILY to a 'positive good' and the 'highest form of socialism'(in the words of one writer.)
Wow, that's for sure!
And if it's true, it's only because we who are opposed to abortion (except of course in rare cases) are somehow at fault for making them feel guilty. No other reason. We should move along. /sarcasm
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