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To: Cindy B. who wrote (15782)	3/3/2005 4:22:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Since the trauma of a full term birth to the body is very great, and the hormonal changes are extreme, I'd place my money on full term birth and adoption causing a lot more lasting trauma on the mother. This study indicated extensive problems: one study indicates that 95 percent of birth mothers report grief and loss after they have signed their consent to adoption, and two-thirds continued to experience these feelings five to 15 years after relinquishment (Sachdev, 1989). Compare that 95 with your 90, and the long term effects of my study at 66% versus your "50% later developed"... Seems to me with those kinds of numbers, women should have the right to decide which way they want to suffer. 2/3's with feelings 5 to 15 years laster is pretty significant. Most women seem to get over abortion fairly easily- and since abortion is similar to miscarriage, which many people experience, it seems to me it would be evolutionary maladaptive not to be able to survive it with comparative ease. It sounds like your AJP study shows that abortion is less disturbing than my study shows adoption to be. Which is what I would expect- when you contrast the physical intimacy of birth, with the relatively non-traumatic early D and C.