Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

From Aleteia- Pricilla Coleman, PhD who has done tons of research on the impact of abortion, responds to the article"Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth," on Good Therapy that I posted about here. Once again , she shreds their theory. Thank goodness for a PhD who wants the truth about the impact of abortion and not an agenda.

Pricilla Coleman, PhD

On October 6th an article titled “Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth?” written by Zawn Villines, appeared on GoodTherapy.org. In order to address the question she poses, Villines does not focus on the large international body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence indicating that abortion increases women’s risk of experiencing mental health problems. Instead she exclusively describes results of the flawed “Turnaway Study,” led by Diana Greene Foster.

Villines highlights the Turnaway findings that there were no significant differences in mental health trajectories between (1) women who had abortions and (2) those denied abortions, because their pregnancies had advanced beyond the legal gestational limit. Villines neglected to mention that 60% of the women in the Turnaway group who continued their pregnancies expressed happiness about their pregnancies. And no mention is made by Villines of the glaring methodological shortcomings of the Turnaway study.

The following major problems, among others, preclude trust in all the results obtained.

the rest is here