Women's Health after Abortion
Now Available Free Online
-- Part Two
of Two
It’s not often, even in today’s
media-saturated, information-loaded culture,
that you can download free an entire book. But
as of a few days ago, pro-lifers can take
advantage of the generosity of the publishers of
an important pro-life book.
The second edition of
Women's Health after Abortion:
The Medical and Psychological Evidence” can
be downloaded and read, courtesy of the deVeber
Institute for Social Research,
by going to
www.deveber.org/text/whaa-chapters.html.
This is an offer you can’t
refuse. The
deVeber Institute for Social
Research is a Canadian think tank, open since
1982, that specializes in first-rate analyses of
a number of topics, including euthanasia and
assisted suicide.
You might ask yourself, nearly 35
years and counting into the reign of Roe v.
Wade, is there anything new that can be
added/debated? Well, yes - - actually, lots and
lots. And books such as Women's Health after
Abortion are important reasons why the
public is seeing abortion anew.
Pro-lifers know both intuitively
and by personal experience that "safe, legal
abortion" is not only lethal to the unborn child
but also exacts a toll on women far more serious
than the public is led to believe.
But is there evidence to back up
this gut feeling? Yes, and, intriguingly, much
of the evidence for abortion's nefarious impact
often comes from studies whose primary emphasis
is not abortion.
"[S]ome of the consequences of
abortion do not surface until long after the
procedure, or, as in the case of infertility,
remain undetected until the woman wishes to bear
a child," write authors Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy
and Ian Gentles. "Yet at present many studies
rely on short-term findings; furthermore,
researchers often minimize the significance of
their findings, and sometimes even arrive at
conclusions that flatly contradict their data."
In addition, with virtually all
abortions now being performed in outpatient
clinics (as opposed to hospitals or even a
private physician's office), studying the
fallout from abortion is now far more difficult.
Follow-up in clinics ranges from minimal to
non-existent. "Nonetheless," as the book
concludes, "what research there is, shows that
abortion is the source of serious physical and
psychological problems for a significant number
of women."
One of the many accomplishments
of this book, based on over 500 articles that
have appeared in medical and other journals, is
to bring together in one place the conclusions
of many studies that, standing alone, do not
adequately convey the risks that abortion poses
to women. The deVeber Institute encapsulates the
book's thesis thusly: "Abortion complications
are seriously underreported, leaving women who
undergo abortion largely unaware of the range of
physical and psychological risks they face."
The second edition features much
helpful new information. This includes a new
Introduction, and more on the abortion/breast
cancer link. There is also an expanded
discussion of such complications as pelvic
infection, ectopic pregnancy, prematurity,
increased incidences of cerebral palsy, and
maternal death.
Again, the great news is that
book can be read and/or downloaded free just by
going to
www.deveber.org/text/whaa-chapters.html.
Part One
