"Silent No More" Women Urge American Psychological Association to Examine Latest Abortion/Depression Study
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August 08, 2008
Staten Island, NY – Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness
Campaign (SNMAC), the world’s largest network of women and
men harmed by abortion, said today that the American
Psychological Association (APA) needs to consider the latest
major study from Norway that clearly shows a link between
abortion and subsequent mental health problems.
“Next week the APA may adopt a new report on the link
between abortion and health problems such as depression,”
said Janet Morana, co-founder of SNMAC. “New research from
Norway reconfirms what women across America already know all
too well – abortion doesn’t end your problems, it creates
new ones. The APA needs to ignore political pressure and
report the truth about abortion’s painful aftermath.”
The Norwegian study, published in the Scandinavian Journal
of Public Health, questioned 5,768 women between the ages of
15 and 27. It concluded that young adult women who undergo
induced abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent
depression.
“Abortion is not just a life terminating experience for the
baby, it’s a life altering one for the mother,” added
Georgette Forney, another co-founder of SNMAC. “The APA
cannot continue to ignore study after study and pretend that
eliminating a child from your life is consequence-free. It
will be interesting to see if a pro-abortion bias will
continue to trump science and women’s realities when the
psychologists meet next week.”
Since the launching of the
Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 2,326 women and
men have shared their testimonies publicly at 189 gatherings
in 44 states and six countries where more than 15,000
spectators have heard the truth about abortion’s negative
aftereffects. More than 4,100 people are registered to be
Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful
aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope
with the pain are two of the Campaign’s goals.
The Silent No More Awareness
Campaign is a joint project of Anglicans for Life and
Priests for Life.
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