When we hear the words promise, or I promise, we often experience a fair amount of skepticism. How much depends on how often we have seen promises go unfulfilled or been disappointed. In the classic Christmas movie “Jingle All The Way”, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is always making promises to his son and…
Fear – it comes at all of us in all manner of ways. Watch the news very long, fear is there. Listen to politicians, fear is there. Doom-scrolling? Fear is implicit in the word. We may fear different things (think spiders, snakes, bats and rats) but we all experience fear (we even have FOMO as…
Researchers investigating post-abortion reactions report only one positive emotion: relief. This emotion is understandable, especially in light of the fact that the majority of aborting women report feeling under intense pressure to “get it over with.”8,23 Temporary feelings of relief are frequently followed by a period psychiatrists identify as emotional “paralysis,” or post-abortion “numbness.”18 Like shell-shocked…
Almost one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss.[1] This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss, there is relatively little public discussion about its harms. Not surprising, researchers with different points of view reach different conclusions about the extent of these harms, and these issues continue to…
Revisiting Social Policies: Acknowledging Reproductive Loss Approximately one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss[1] – by reproductive loss I mean the spontaneous loss of a miscarriage or stillbirth, or the induced loss of an abortion. This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss worldwide, there is relatively…
https://www.cureus.com/articles/124269-effects-of-pressure-to-abort-on-womens-emotional-responses-and-mental-health#!
Trauma work requires the patient to recover all of the details and images of the traumatic experience and to construct a narrative that unites the memory fragments and brings closure to the experience. This must be done at both conscious and unconscious levels. Trauma work converts the unfinished experiential memory fragments into a coherent memory…
As we approach the 40th anniversary of Roe and Doe on January 22, 2013, where are we? Ever since those beginnings our Supreme Court has based much of its jurisprudence on its understanding of the health consequences of abortion or birth on women, including their mental health.[1] In Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court…
Posted on May 7, 2013 by EI (Springfield, IL – May 7, 2013) – A meta-analysis combining the results of 8 studies of women facing unwanted pregnancies, published in the April 2013 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, has concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health…
The pro-life movement has long endeavored to understand the complex emotional struggle behind a woman’s decision to continue or abort an unplanned pregnancy. To explore the dynamics of this dilemma and to aid pro-life groups in assisting women in crisis, the Vitae Foundation in Jefferson City, Missouri pioneered a series of landmark studies on women…