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Suicides on the rise

October 22, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

Suicide rates are on the rise for both women and men. Read about this, here.

Suicides for white adults ages 40 to 64 rose 17 percent from 1999 to 2005, researchers said. For middle-age white men, the rate rose 14 percent to 26.9 per 100,000 in 2005 from 23.1 per 100,000 in 1999. For white women in that age group, the rate rose 19 percent to 8.2 per 100,000 from 6.9 per 100,000.

From time to time, pro-abortion advocates tell me that if abortion were so bad, really, we’d be seeing an epidemic of wounded women. Which, they then say, we’re not seeing.

Really? Seems to me we do have some problems in our culture, generally speaking, with too many people on anti-depressants, and visiting psychiatrists and all.

Now I know the difference between causation and correlation, and I am not saying abortion is causing or even correlated to this increase in suicides. What I am saying is that there’s a problem when suicide rates go up that much that suddenly–and we won’t necessarily ever be able to find a direct link. Oftentimes social problems experienced broadly can’t be directly traced to one single source.

Yet there’s no doubt that abortion causes an increase in depression, suicide and suicide ideation–on that the literature is quite clear, in spite of what the American Psychological Association claims. And so when I saw this report about increased suicides, it made me think of a possible link to abortion. The walking wounded–they are all around us–if we care enough to see.

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Tanya thinks this is no coincidence. Quebec not only has the highest abortion rate in Canada, it also has the highest rate of suicides. In fact, it has the third highest rate of suicides in the industrialized world.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: increased suicide, Laura Wershler, Planned Parenthood, quebec suicide rate, suicide

You say tomato…

June 21, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

When pro-choicers want to make fun of pro-lifers, natural family planning is referred to as ridiculously anachronistic, associated with the “rhythm method,” and as if that were not bad enough, with “religion.” Apologies for this link, but it serves to highlight my point.  

 

But when they agree that women’s health is not well-served by shots of hormones and surgery, natural family planning is called body literacy and fertility awareness.

 

I don’t care what you call it (and am not an expert in either). But let me personally applaud those pro-choicers who truly support women’s health by being against those regularly-timed shots of hormones.

 

There’s a conference about this in Alberta, May 14 – 17, 2009 that some may like to be aware of (scroll way down…)

 

This comes up because a friend attending a government-funded Mom and Baby health session was treated to an exegesis on birth control. (Odd choice, that. Is the line of thinking “you have a baby–you couldn’t possibly want another? But I digress.) It included no information on body literacy/NFP/fertility awareness.

 

I support pro-choicers who support body literacy. Because the ultimate in body literacy is knowing that the fetus growing inside you is not a blob of tissue that is easily disposable. They aren’t of the same opinion. I know that. But these are the pro-choicers with whom I share some common ground even if we have not come to the same conclusions.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Fertility awareness, Geraldine Matus, Heather Mallick, Justisse, Justisse Health network, Laura Wershler

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