Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

My latest article about the recent teen study is up at Catholic Online:

BRONX, NY (Catholic Online) – As the product of a teen abortion I
take great offense with the findings of the new study, "Do Depression
and Low Self Esteem Follow Abortion Among Adolescents?" by Jocelyn
Warren, S. Marie Harvey and Jillian Henderson.

For years I walked around like Alice in Wonderland in an upside-down
world that made no sense because my experience of abortion was denied
and I was made to feel crazy for my feelings. Today I don't know which
is crazier; the fact that there is another new study saying abortion
does not appear to cause depression and low self esteem in teens, or the
fact that news outlets are reporting it without question, expecting us
to believe it. 

This latest "professional" study insults our intelligence when it
denies our experiences and blatantly attempts to override truth. Women
who have had abortions are the true experts on what abortion does. We
are not buying falsehoods anymore, and neither are countless other
Americans.

We have now had over 50 million abortions performed in our country
and unlike years ago, we all know someone who has suffered because of
it. Reality can only be denied for so long, yet in spite of more and
more women speaking out about the harm abortion has caused them, the
American Psychological Association and studies such as this one continue to deny our experiences.

One has to wonder why post-abortion organizations like Operation Outcry,
Silent No More, and numerous healing ministries that deal with post
abortion trauma are never contacted for these studies. And, we women who
speak out about abortion's realities continue to be labeled pro life,
as if those words alone take away the legitimacy of our experience.

Also,
it does not take more than a brief Internet search to recognize that
the women conducting these studies (Brenda Majors, Jocelyn Warren, S.
Marie Harvey, etc.) have close ties to a lucrative abortion industry
that seeks to keep abortion procurement easy, at the expense of the very
women they claim to care about and serve.

you can read the rest here: http://catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=38529