Professor Casey v Johns Hopkins

It seems as if Prof Patricia Casey, professor of adult psychiatry at University College Dublin and the Mater Hospital, Dublin hasn't paid attention to what Johns Hopkins researchers said about the connection between abortion & depression. (Isn't That Exactly What You Are Doing?) Instead of listening to their lies, she is paying attention to a study from New Zealand I talked about in another post. (I Can Guarentee That PP Will Attack This As Flawed..) But then, unlike the so-called unbiased researchers at Johns Hopkins she has been vocally opposed to abortion.

Commenting on the study: "There are immediate medico-legal implications flowing from the finding; namely, the prospect of litigation against abortion providers for failing to provide women with information of a possible causal link between abortion and subsequent health problems."

Naturally her stand has been criticized, by abortion supporters. "Dr Margaret Oates, consultant perinatal psychiatrist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust (who is pro-choice), and her colleagues Dr Ian Jones and Dr Roch Cantwell argued against the need for mandatory counselling and informed consent for all women seeking abortion. "Informed consent for surgery does not include a warning of psychological hazard. We do not believe that the evidence is strong enough to support mandating such advice for abortion," they said."

Prof Ferguson (head of the New Zealand study) had this to say about the study: "Specifically, the results do not support strong pro-life positions that claim that abortion has large and devastating effects on the mental health of women. Neither do the results support any strong pro-choice position that abortion is without any mental health effects." The researchers said that exposure to abortion was responsible for about 1.5-5.5 per cent of the overall rate of mental disorder in the group of women studied.

Once again the different standard for abortion rears its ugly head & shows that its real face. In today's litigeous society, that small percentage would be enough for the screams to be heard calling for this warning to be required if it were anything else but abortion. But because it is abortion we can never even hint that it is anything but a good thing.

I honestly believe that even if God came down from Heaven & said abortion was wrong, abortion supporters would say that it was a mass illusion & call for the government to pay for psychatric treatment & drugs for everyone rather than admit the truth.

Source: Call for mental health support after abortion