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To: jlallen who wrote (208433)	12/10/2001 1:08:11 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Here is a statistic:\| Does abortion have any negative effects on her other children? In some cases a definite "Survivor Syndrome" has been demonstrated. Children usually know that mother is pregnant. They also know when she "gets unpregnant." This may cause Survivor’s Syndrome, similar to that of Jews who survived the holocaust. It is an irrational but real guilt at "why was I saved and why were they killed." Dr. Ney has written about this. Dr. Edward Sheridan of Georgetown University has observed also a fear and mistrust of the mother. Originally, a small child, sensing a sibling’s arrival, doesn’t welcome it. "When the baby suddenly disappears, the frightened child may get a warped sense of his own power to ‘will people away.’ Or, if he knows that his mother was an active agent in doing away with the sibling, he begins to fear her." A simple explanation of this was published in: L. Bond, "The Surviving Sibling," Nat’l RTL News, Sept. 25, 1986. It is also closely associated with child abuse: Dr. Phillip Ney, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Christ Church, New Zealand, and of later at the University of Calgary, Canada, while still at the University of British Columbia, published a widely read study of this. His analysis clearly pointed to the fact that abortion (and its acceptance of the violence of killing the unborn) lowered a parent’s psychic resistance to violence and abuse of the born. P. Ney, "Relationship Between Abortion & Child Abuse," Canada Jour. Psychiatry, vol. 24, 1979, pp. 610-620 ******************************* Suicide is rare among pregnant women, but much more common after induced abortion. It is never re-ported under maternal mortality from abortion, of course, even though it is causative. "The suicide rate after an abortion was three times the general suicide rate and six times that associated with birth.... the rate for women following a live birth was 5.9 per 100,000; following miscarriage 18.1; following abortion 34.7." They note that women frequently get short term "post-natal blues after having a baby, but that this rarely translates into suicide, and that the initial stress of having a child is transitional, the over-all effect having a positive effect on women’s health." M. Gissler, Abortion/Suicide Link,Br. Med. J., Dec. 6, 1996 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

To: jlallen who wrote (208433)	12/10/2001 1:08:30 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Recently, two researchers made the atrocious claim that the abortion caused much of the large drop in crime that our nation enjoyed during the 1990s. They theorized that many of the babies killed by abortion during the early 1970s would have been born to mothers who were poor, young, single, or minorities; these children would have been unwanted or otherwise raised in difficult home environments and would have been likelier than children not aborted to be criminals. This May, however, Yale law professor John Lott and Australian economist John Whitley released a paper that powerfully show why the first study is wrong. These researchers discuss numerous problems with the data and the assumptions behind the first study. After correcting for these problems, Lott and Whitley show that abortion is actually associated with more, not less crime, and with a higher murder rate in particular. Prepare yourself to debate the link between abortion and crime by downloading the Lott and Whitley paper from the Social Science Research Network at papers.ssrn.com. This working paper is entitled "Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births" by John R. Lott, Jr. and John Whitley.