There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik
Abortion linked to mental health problems down the road, study finds Washington D.C., Sep 3, 2016
Abortion during the late teen and early adult years raises a woman’s risk of mental health problems and may be linked to almost one in ten cases of these women’s mental disorders, a new study says.
“Evidence
from the United States confirms previous findings from Norway and New Zealand
that, unlike other pregnancy outcomes, abortion is consistently associated with
a moderate increase in risk of mental health disorders during late adolescence
and early adulthood,” said the study’s abstract.
The
study, conducted by sociology professor Donald Paul Sullins of The Catholic
University of America, was published July 22, 2016 in the peer-reviewed Sage
Open Medicine journal.
After
adjusting for demographic differences and other factors, the study found that
abortion during these years elevated a woman’s risk of mental health disorder
by 45 percent.
“One-eleventh
of the prevalence of mental disorders examined over the period were
attributable to abortion,” the study’s abstract said.
The study
sought to examine any links between pregnancy outcomes like birth, abortion or
miscarriage and mental health outcomes for U.S. women during the transition to
adulthood. It drew on a national study of 8,005 women that surveyed them three
times at average ages of 15, 22 and 28.
Involuntary
pregnancy loss was associated with a 24 percent elevated risk of mental
disorder, while childbirth was “weakly associated” with reduced risk of mental
disorder.
Students
for Life of America said the study showed the need for better data about the
risks of abortion.
“Abortion
activists have repeatedly denounced attempts to link abortion with any adverse
events,” the group said Aug. 23. “In medical schools across the country,
students are taught that there are no long-term consequences of abortion, and
that abortion is a safe procedure. However, these statements are misleading at
best.”
Students
for Life said that each state sets its own reporting laws. States like
California do not require any reporting of abortion statistics. Reported
statistics may be unreliable, given that pro-abortion research organizations
like the Guttmacher Institute consistently report abortion rates as much as 30
percent higher than Centers for Disease Control reports.
Only 16
states require reporting on abortion complications, and only eight publish
abortion complications in their public abortion reports. Four states inquire
about maternal mortality after abortion, while only one state asks about
follow-up care to women who have had abortions.
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