Pro Life about Biased Report on Abortion, Etc.

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Pro-Life Group Urges Response to Biased Report on Abortion, Mental Health

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 20, 2008
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the nation's top pro-life organizations is asking pro-life advocates to contact the American Psychological Association and urge calls and emails concerning its recent abortion report. The APA dismissed insurmountable evidence that abortion causes mental health problems for women.
The new report concluded women who have abortions may experience some grief and a sense of loss, but it claimed there is no evidence showing abortion causes significant mental health issues like depression.
The group's conclusions weren't a surprise because of the stacked panel that evaluated the research.
Still, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, is calling on pro-life advocates to make their voices heard in response.
He told LifeNews.com the APA assessment "released a heavily biased report with a sweeping pro-abortion conclusion based upon one solitary study -- to the detriment of American women's health."

"The APA needs to hear from you that a new, more-scientifically based report is needed," he said. "Any research needs to be broader in scope and include studies that this report ignored."
He said the APA should have looked at studies "that have highlighted the high prevalence of women affected by repeat abortions or studies that have shown an equally high number of women in the U.S. who have felt 'coerced' into their abortions."
"There is a growing body of testimony from real women who have suffered from abortion," he said.

Perkins asks pro-life advocates to, "Please contact Dr. Alan E. Kazdin, the current President of the American Psychological Association, and let him know that this biased report does further harm to women by covering up the truth."
The group provides a handy form to use to do that.


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From http://lifenews.com/state3454.html

Ohio Planned Parenthood Runs PR Ads to Distract From Abortion Business

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 20, 2008

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Cincinnati, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio is following the lead of the national Planned Parenthood organization, which is doing everything possible to distract the public's attention from the fact that it is the nation's largest abortion business. The Ohio affiliate has new ads saying it also does legitimate services.

The new PPSO newspaper advertising campaign is called "the A-word" because it attempts to shift the public's view from abortion to other issues.

Those other a-words are abstinence, access, affordability and advocacy.

PPSO CEO Becki Brenner told the Associated Press Wednesday that abortions supposedly account for just two percent of its business, though there is no indication if the time the group spends lobbying against abortion or promoting pro-abortion candidates is included.

Brenner hopes Cincinnati residents will focus on the cancer screenings, prenatal care, and educational about sexually transmitted diseases Planned Parenthood does.

But Paula Westwood, executive director of Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati, tells LifeNews.com that the ads are misleading.

Not only do the ads distract from the fact that Planned Parenthood does 25 percent of all abortions in the United States, but Westwood says they denigrate abstinence education.

"These ads are misleading," she said. "According to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's own web site Planned Parenthood promotes 'comprehensive sex eduation' as opposed to abstinence until marriage," she explained.

"Note that Planned Parenthood's definition of abstinence is one of personal control--abstain from sex only if and when you want to--sexual activity of any kind with any one is fine," Westwood explained.

"But the virtue of chastity is the true choice for sexual wholeness--purity and virginity for the unmarried, and sexual intimacy treasured as a God-given gift for within a marriage," she adds.

The new ad campaign comes at a time when Planned Parenthood is attempting to move an abortion center into a new area closer to schools.

Rep. Steve Chabot of Cincinnati, a pro-life Republican, is working hard to stop that from happening.

Related web sites:
Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati - http://www.cincinnatirighttolife.org