Debunking a theory that’s been promulgated by agenda-pushing right-wingers:
Abortion Does Not Cause Mental Illness, Panel Says
liz | 11:08 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Link to the NY Times Magazine Cover Story, “Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?,” of January 21, 2007 on this anti-choice canard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21abortion.t.htm
You have to love the Right though….the truth will not slow them down one bit.
I am the father of two girls and I’d hate to see either of them get an abortion and would do whatever I could to support them in not getting one. But to legislate away their choice is ridiculous.
I would be dead or in hail for child abuse now had it not been for the availability of safe, legal abortion. That’s one clock I do not want to turn back.
My friend Mary Ellen would probably write a comment about this, but she can’t. She’s dead of an illegal abortion–two months before it became legal in New York State. She was a wonderful person who didn’t deserve to die for other people’s moralism.
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