THE CREATOR'S DESIGN FOR OUR LIFE & HAPPINESS - God has revealed his Plan for us to be able to give meaning & purpose to our lives and in this way to find fulfillment

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

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In each case, for the complete article go to the link.

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The next few links offer eloquent testimonies to the incalculable value of human life. Stephanie Gray shows how to enter into a most compassionate dialogue on issues which, for many people, evoke their most painful human experiences. We are called to love others by listening compassionately and taking genuine interest in their stories, because we have much to learn from one another.     G.S.

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In considering abortion as an option, or else before or after trying to understand what might be consequences of having an abortion, it is good to remember that LOVE UNLEASHES LIFE.

Courtroom genetics testimony of Dr. Jerome Lejeune on the wonder of human conception in the Circuit Court for Blount County State of tennessee at Maryville, Tennessee on August 10th, 1989. 

Second source for this testimony

 SEVERAL INFORMATIVE LINKS / LIENS UTILES ET INFORMATIFS

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Everyone wants to succeed. Sadly, we see around us so much failure and heartache... why is that? When we insist on finding our own way alone, we cannot avoid making mistakes, often the same mistakes others have made. It is wise to be willing to learn from the wisdom others have acquired, often painfully and at great cost. Our Church has two millennia of wisdom for life and marriage.    G.S.

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Successful Couples / Réussir son couple 

👉 https://www.diocesemontreal.org/en/life-and-its-seasons/marriage 👈

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We are wise to be willing to learn from others, including the Church and her Magisterium teachings, which provide knowledge, context, and depth regarding human intimacy for our "Life Project".  G.S.

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The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality 

👉 Guidelines for Education within the Family 👈

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Human experience accumulates wisdom, and from our collective experience we know for certain that the most effective way to avoid unexpected pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections is to restrict intimate relations to one's life long spouse or simply to abstain from sexual relations altogether. Contrary to widespread disinformation, we don't need sex in order to thrive and experience fulfillment in the meaning and purpose we want to give to our lives. For more information go to:

DIOCESAN CENTRE FOR MARRIAGE, LIFE AND THE FAMILY 

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Next in all conscience we share this information which suffers under a worldwide embargo preventing the deadly truth from getting out. The primary reason is that women who undergo an abortion - either immediately or later - endure such lasting suffering, physical but more often psychological; that they are ashamed or afraid or both to say anything about it. In time, many courageously admit how much they regret having had an abortion. The scandal is that all too often we men have not stood by our women but abandoned them to carry alone the burden of pregnancy, which is intended by our Creator to be carried by the couple in lifelong blessing and great joy for all concerned. So, be warned.  G.S.

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Abortion and contraception - You have a right and need to know 

👉 HUSH - a liberating conversation about abortion and women's health  👈

Diocese of Montreal  - Scroll down and click the tab TODAY'S CHALLENGES and scroll down to the links provided - Life and Its Seasons - Family

Diocese of Hamilton ON - Natural Family Planning 

U.S.A. National Library of Medicine - Natural Family Planning 

Research and links from Priests for Life Canada - Scroll for Topics under Resources 

Florida Health Services - Foundations of Life - Risks About Abortion 

USCCB: Respect for Unborn Human Life: The Church's Constant Teaching 

JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH - 
Induced abortion and anxiety, mood, and substance abuse disorders: Isolating the effects of abortion in the national comorbidity survey - See especially the Discussion on page 6-7. 

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The media - especially mainstream media - are too often more interested in bad news. One effect is that truly GOOD NEWS remains hidden and often hard to find. Here is some really great news about the support that actually exists out there for women abandoned by their man to carry alone the burden of their pregnancy. The GOOD NEWS is that YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Check this out!  G.S.

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Pregnancy Support - My Choices / Soutient Grossesse - Mes Choix 

👉 Pregnancy Care Canada - Chateauguay QC Services Options  👈

Mutual Help Organizations - Catholic Action Montreal 

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It is true that carrying an unexpected pregnancy to term and then giving up the baby for adoption is a difficult sacrifice to make. It's hard to let go once you've "bonded" with your baby for nine months. However, for the rest of your life you will know that you have given life! This is much easier to bear for the rest of your life than knowing that you put an end to a life. See this for yourself!  G.S.

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Canada Adopts - See your doctor or social worker to offer your baby for adoption

👉 Putting A Baby Up For Adoption in Canada: The Process  👈

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Our Creator is not a cruel God who abandons his creatures to their own devices. No! God actually cares for us and loves us and, in the Holy Spirit, offers us supernatural gifts for our life journey.  G.S.

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Fruits & Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Fruits et Dons de l'Esprit Saint 

👉 http://fruitsetdons.net/fruits-and-gifts.html 👈

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Genuine love for others must begin with authentic and true, properly ordered love for one's own life, receiving our life moment by moment from our Creator as the priceless gift that our life is.   G.S.

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SELF-ESTEEM AND ASSERTION: FOUNDATIONS OF LIFE!
ESTIME ET AFFIRMATION DE SOI : FONDATIONS DE LA VIE !

👉 http://estimeetaffirmationdesoi.ca/self-esteem-and-assertion.html 👈

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Extraterrestrials observing our condom use might rightly conclude that the human species is afraid of its own fertility, and they would be right. Tragically, the facts tell a far scarier story. Selling condoms is a profitable business, the facts threaten the profit margin. Condoms don't deliver the full protection they advertise. The perfect protection from deadly infectious diseases and from unwanted pregnancy is to reserve our fertility for our own spouse for life - before and during marriage.  G.S.

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CHASTITY is the most effective way to avoid STI's 

👉 U.S.A. National Library of Medicine  👈

For the first time in human history, sexual promiscuity and sexually transmitted infections have skyrocketed and are out of control - not to mention the disappointment and heartache....

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The so-called "sexual revolution" of the 1960's messaged women they could enjoy the same "freedom" from responsibility apparently enjoyed by men, but it was a big lie. Men and women become "less manly" and "less feminine" when engaging in senseless and irresponsible sexual activity. Because of the shame involved in abortion, it took decades for women to realize and admit the truth of their suffering because of abortion. Over time, amazing support services developed. Now women can know it is possible to experience healing and to prosper again after an abortion.  G.S.

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POST-ABORTION HEALING RESOURCES IN CANADA

👇 Post Abortion Healing Links 👇

Campaign Life Coalition 

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY - Hope & Healing - Recovery Resources 

Healing for MEN - Knights of Columbus - EWTN Interview text 

Sisters of Life - Hope & Healing 

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PREGNANT AND NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO? YOU ARE NOT ALONE!  G.S.

---------------------------------------------------------------- I am pregnant and I am thinking about getting an abortion...   Je suis enceinte et je songe à l'avortement... (La barre de navigation en haut à gauche du centre a un bouton FRANÇAIS n'est pas toujours visible... trouvez-le à tâtons....) 

👉 https://pregnancysupportservices.org 👈

WELCOME TO PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES
AND 👉 RELATIONSHIPS ED. 👈

(Site américain en anglais et en espagnol seulement)

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Until recently we could go to the Moon and consider going to Mars, but we still knew so little about a woman's body, fertility, and how it all works together. Feminine fertility and vitality remained one of life's great mysteries. Finally, science is catching up and we now understand so much more about how our feminine fertility works and doctors can actually diagnose missing elements and provide them in simple therapies that allow "infertile" women to enjoy their full fertility. Check this out!  G.S.

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NaProTechnology - Medical and Surgical 

Specialty for Women of Procreative Age

(Site américain en anglais seulement)

👉 https://naprotechnology.com 👈

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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best efforts as human beings to make sense of our lives in general - and of our human sexuality in particular - and to also include the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium; given that the Church has been accumulating the 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     G.S.

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© 2006-2023 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC 

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THE EFFECTS OF INDUCED ABORTION ON THE PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND RELATIONAL HEALTH OF WOMEN (AND MEN?)

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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

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In each case, please go to the link for the complete article.

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In considering abortion as an option, it is good to remember that LOVE UNLEASHES LIFE.

 THE EFFECTS OF INDUCED ABORTION

PHYSICAL HEALTH

Induced abortion, whether chemical or surgical, is a trauma for the hormonal system, which is all geared for pregnancy, this when hormonal balance is an important basis of global health. The violence required to tear out and dismember the child in no way compares to spontaneous abortion, where the child dies of natural causes, and the link that unites the baby’s body to its mother’s is much weaker, not to say non-existent. The violence of induced abortion can easily cause lesions, scarring, perforations and hemorrhaging, all the way to generalized poisoning. All of the preceding can cause fertility problems, amongst other consequences. 

If full-term pregnancy represents too much of a threat to a woman’s life or health, then there will need to be recourse to Cesarean delivery. No need to take the child’s life.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND RELATIONAL HEALTH

However, even if there are no negative impacts from the abortion on a woman's physical health or fertility and ability to conceive again; the sheer violence of the induced abortion cannot do otherwise than at the very least give a woman pause to reconsider and experience regrets. 

One can expect normal feelings of loss and grief over a miscarried or stillborn child; however there would generally be little if any cause to feel guilty or responsible.

We cannot say the same for an induced abortion, which is a deliberate choice, decision, and act on the part of a woman and of the man, whether or not he supports her in the decision or abandons her to her own resources to make a decision about her pregnancy all on her own. 

The thousands of women registered in post-abortion healing programs throughout the world often report that induced abortion has left them frigid, cold, distant and aggressive, as well as depressed and even suicidal, many attempting in vain to drown their pain through substance abuse. Their couple was not able to resist this post-abortion syndrome. Many had recourse to induced abortion to try to save their relationship, but induced abortion ended up destroying it, as well as their capacity to start a new one.

Some have recourse to induced abortion in an attempt to dissimulate an affair. But women attest that keeping secrets, i.e. the affair and the abortion, are a heavy load to bear. They realize that the golden rule for family relations is indeed true: “The more secrets there are in a family, the more dysfunctional it becomes”. A secret is a weed that grows and spreads over time and that always ends up suffocating both the one keeping the secrets and the one secrets are kept from. Whether we like it or not, honesty will always be the best policy. But without secrets, soap operas could not last very long, could they?!

Revealing an affair is difficult, but hiding it, is even more difficult. If we do not feel ready to welcome this child as our own, then there will always be open, semi-open or closed adoption. Bringing a pregnancy to term is difficult, but bearing the physical and psychological consequences of induced abortion, is even more difficult. It is an illusion to think that seeking to divest oneself of the consequences of one’s actions can lead to happiness… It is also an illusion to think that going against nature and life is a good strategy for happiness and well-being.

An equally debilitating consequence of abortion is likely experienced by the men who were glad to be there for the fertilization - whether intended or not - but who at the first sign of "trouble" upon hearing the news that she is pregnant, "run for the hills" and abandon the woman, leaving her high and dry to face the consequences of her pregnancy alone, on her own, without his support or sympathy. The Creator designed woman, in her natural capacity to give life and nurture it, to be cherished and cared for, accompanied and supported by man. Whenever a man fails to rise to the occasion to "be there" for woman, he is profoundly diminished in his identity and self-worth. We can undoubtedly observe the negative consequences of "denatured men" in relation to many of our society's social ills and troubles. 

There do not appear to be many studies, if any, of the consequences experienced or suffered by men who participate actively or passively, by abandoning the woman, in procuring an induced abortion. 

Here follow a few glimpses of the kinds of research that has been done and continues to be done on these issues, which are of such importance and consequence for women, men, and society. 

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Please follow the links to go to the original sources of these published studies. 

Abortions happen in the lives of real people... apparently one in three women in the U.S.A. have had at least one abortion by age 45. Here are a few of the stories these women wanted to publish on the Internet.... https://nymag.com/news/features/abortion-stories-2013-11/

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NCBI Resources PMC US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

SAGE Open Med. 2018; 6: 2050312118807624.

Published online 2018 Oct 29. doi: 10.1177/2050312118807624

The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature review of common ground agreements, disagreements, actionable recommendations, and research opportunities

David C Reardon 

Conclusion 

While there will continue to be differences of opinion between AMH minimalists and AMH proponents, there is sufficient common ground upon which to build future efforts to improve research and meaningful re-analyses. Common ground exists regarding the very basic fact that at least some women do have significant mental health issues that are caused, triggered, aggravated, or complicated by their abortion experience. In many cases, this may be due to feeling pressured into an abortion or choosing an abortion without sufficient attention to maternal desires or moral beliefs that may make it difficult to reconcile one’s choice with one’s self-identity.

There is also common ground regarding the fact that risk factors identifying women who are at greater risk, including a history of prior mental illness, can be used to identify women who may benefit from more pre-abortion and post-abortion counseling. Additional research regarding risk factors, and indicators identifying when abortion may be most likely to produce the benefits sought by women without negative consequences, can and should be conducted through major longitudinal prospective studies.

Finally, there is common ground on the need for better research. That fact alone is a strong argument for mixed research teams, collaboration in the design of longitudinal studies available for analysis by any researcher (without ideological screenings), data sharing and more responsive cooperation in responding to requests for reanalysis. All of these steps will help to provide healthcare workers with more accurate information for screening, risk–benefits assessments, and for offering better care and information to women both before and after abortion and other reproductive events.

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Abortion and mental health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David M. Fergusson

Summary

A recent Royal College of Psychiatrists' statement concluded that current evidence on abortion and mental health is inconclusive. This contribution examines the background to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' statement and the issues it raises. It is concluded that the best route to resolving such issues is through further and better research.

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NCBI Resources PMC US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

• Journal List
• Iran J Psychiatry
• v.6(1); Winter 2011
• PMC3395931
• Iran J Psychiatry. 2011 Winter; 6(1): 31–36.

• Psychological Consequences of Abortion among the Post Abortion Care Seeking Women in Tehran

  Abolghasem Pourreza, PhD1 and Aziz Batebi, MD2

• Abstract

  Objective

  Abortion either medical or criminal has distinctive physical, social, and psychological side effects. Detecting types and frequent psychological side effects of abortion among post abortion care seeking women in Tehran was the main objective of the present study.

  Method

  278 women of reproductive age (15-49) interviewed as study population. Response rate was 93/8. Data collected through a questionnaire with 2 parts meeting broad socio-economic characteristics of the respondents and health- related abortion consequences. Tehran hospitals were the site of study.

  Results

  The results revealed that at least one-third of the respondents have experienced psychological side effects. Depression, worrying about not being able to conceive again and abnormal eating behaviors were reported as dominant psychological consequences of abortion among the respondents. Decreased self-esteem, nightmare, guilt, and regret with 43.7%, 39.5%, 37.5%, and 33.3% prevalence rates have been placed in the lower status, respectively.

  Conclusion

  Psychological consequences of abortion have considerably been neglected. Several barriers made findings limited. Different types of psychological side effects, however, experienced by the study population require more intensive attention because of chronic characteristic of psychological disorders, and women's health impact on family and population health.

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Abortion and Mental Health: Myths and Realities
Susan A. Cohen

First published online: August 1, 2006

HELPING WOMEN COPE AFTER HAVING AN ABORTION

To be sure, it is not unusual for a woman to experience a range of often contradictory emotions after having an abortion, just as it would not be unusual for a woman who carried her unintended pregnancy to term. It was not until recently, however, that a specialized organization was formed with the purpose to provide postabortion counseling in a nonjudgmental context. Founded in 2000 in Oakland, California, Exhale operates a national telephone hotline by which trained, volunteer peer counselors help women who have had abortions, as well as their partners and families, talk through their feelings, immediately after an abortion or even years later.

Exhale “believe[s] there is no ‘right’ way to feel after an abortion. We also know that feelings of happiness, sadness, empowerment, anxiety, grief, relief or guilt are common.” Executive Director Aspen Baker suggests that giving women an outlet for discussing their feelings—whatever they may be—is a healthy part of the process toward emotional well-being. Baker has observed that a woman’s negative emotions after an abortion may be due, at least in part, to the reaction of her partner or to those of family members, who might condemn or exclude her for having an abortion or for becoming pregnant to begin with. Exhale is helping to remove the stigma surrounding having an abortion, so that women and their support networks are better equipped to cope with their feelings—an essential part of the process that until recently may not have received as much attention as it deserves.

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The course of mental health after miscarriage and induced abortion: a longitudinal, five-year follow-up study

• Anne Nordal Broen, 
• Torbjørn Moum, 
• Anne Sejersted Bødtker & 
• Øivind Ekeberg 

BMC Medicine volume 3, Article number: 18 (2005) 

Abstract

Background

Miscarriage and induced abortion are life events that can potentially cause mental distress. The objective of this study was to determine whether there are differences in the patterns of normalization of mental health scores after these two pregnancy termination events.

Methods

Forty women who experienced miscarriages and 80 women who underwent abortions at the main hospital of Buskerud County in Norway were interviewed. All subjects completed the following questionnaires 10 days (T1), six months (T2), two years (T3) and five years (T4) after the pregnancy termination: Impact of Event Scale (IES), Quality of Life, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and another addressing their feelings about the pregnancy termination. Differential changes in mean scores were determined by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and inter-group differences were assessed by ordinary least squares methods.

Results

Women who had experienced a miscarriage had more mental distress at 10 days and six months after the pregnancy termination than women who had undergone an abortion. However, women who had had a miscarriage exhibited significantly quicker improvement on IES scores for avoidance, grief, loss, guilt and anger throughout the observation period. Women who experienced induced abortion had significantly greater IES scores for avoidance and for the feelings of guilt, shame and relief than the miscarriage group at two and five years after the pregnancy termination (IES avoidance means: 3.2 vs 9.3 at T3, respectively, p < 0.001; 1.5 vs 8.3 at T4, respectively, p < 0.001). Compared with the general population, women who had undergone induced abortion had significantly higher HADS anxiety scores at all four interviews (p < 0.01 to p < 0.001), while women who had had a miscarriage had significantly higher anxiety scores only at T1 (p < 0.01).

Conclusion

The course of psychological responses to miscarriage and abortion differed during the five-year period after the event. Women who had undergone an abortion exhibited higher scores during the follow-up period for some outcomes. The difference in the courses of responses may partly result from the different characteristics of the two pregnancy termination events.

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The Linacre Quarterly Volume 72 | Number 1 Article 9 February 2005 Long-Term Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Induced Abortion: A Review of the Evidence John M. Thorp Katherine E. Hartmann Elizabeth Shadigan

Given the central role that abortion has played in the lives of women over the past thirty years, we are distressed by the lack of term-term, welldone research designed to understand the sequelae. A clear and overwhelming need exists for a large epidemiologic, cohort study of women with an unintended or crisis pregnancy. Follow-up across participants' lifetimes with careful measurement of other pertinent exposures would dramatically advance knowledge. Until such an investigation is invested in, women are making important health decisions with incomplete information. A commitment to such research would seem to us to be morally neutral common ground upon which both sides of the abortion/choice debate would agree is critical.  

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THE IMPACT OF ABORTION ON WOMEN

HEARING before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SPACE
of the COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED
STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION 
MARCH 3, 2004 

U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best efforts as human beings to make sense of our lives in general - and of our human sexuality in particular - and to also include the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium; given that the Church has been accumulating the 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     G.S.

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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
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Pope Francis: Abortion is like hiring a hitman

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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

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Pope Francis: Abortion is like hiring a hitman By Courtney Grogan Vatican City, Oct 10, 2018

Pope Francis kisses a child at the general audience on Oct. 10. Credit: Daniel Ibanez.

In his general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis said that abortion “suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming.”

“Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It's like hiring a hitman,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 10, in a departure from his prepared remarks.

“Violence and the rejection of life are born from fear,” the pope added.

For this reason, parents who learn that their unborn child will have a disability need “real closeness, true solidarity to face reality; overcoming understandable fears,” he explained.

Pope Francis lamented that parents receiving a difficult prenatal diagnosis often “receive hasty advice to stop the pregnancy.”

It is contradictory to suppress “human life in the womb in the name of safeguarding other rights,” the pope insisted.

“How can an act that suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming be therapeutic, civil, or simply human?”

The pope’s remarks on abortion came during a reflection on the fifth commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” In recent weeks, the pope has dedicated his weekly general audiences to a series of lesson and reflections on the Ten Commandments recorded in the scriptural books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.

“One could say that all the evil done in the world is summarized in this: contempt for life,” Pope Francis told the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

“What leads man to reject life? They are the idols of this world: money, power, success. These are incorrect parameters to evaluate life. The only authentic measure of life is love, the love with which God loves it!”

The positive meaning of the fifth commandment is that “God is a lover of life,” he continued.

“In every sick child, in every weak old man, in every desperate migrant, in every fragile and threatened life, Christ is looking for us, he is looking for our heart, to disclose the joy of love. It is worthwhile to accept every life because every man is worth the blood of Christ. We can not despise what God so loved!” Pope Francis said.

While a sick child or an elderly person who needs assistance can be viewed as a burden, this can actually be “a gift from God,” explained the pope. This vulnerable life can “pull me out of self-centeredness and make me grow in love.”

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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best efforts as human beings to make sense of our lives in general - and of our human sexuality in particular - and to also include the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium; given that the Church has been accumulating the 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     G.S.

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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
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L'AVORTEMENT PROVOQUÉ ET LA CONTRACEPTION - LES EFFETS / THE EFFECTS OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION

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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

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Droit de savoir - ​Avortement et contraception / Abortion and contraception - Right to Know

LES EFFETS DE L’AVORTEMENT PROVOQUÉ

SANTÉ PHYSIQUE

L’avortement provoqué, par voie chimique ou chirurgicale, est un traumatisme pour le système hormonal, qui lui, est tout orienté vers la grossesse. Or, l’équilibre hormonal est un fondement important de la santé globale. La violence requise pour arracher et démembrer le bébé ne se compare aucunement à un avortement spontané, dans lequel cas le bébé meurt de causes naturelles, et le lien qui unit le bébé au corps de sa mère est alors beaucoup plus faible, pour ne pas dire inexistant. La violence de l’avortement provoqué peut facilement causer lésions, cicatrices, perforations, hémorragies et infections, lesquelles peuvent aller jusqu’ à l’empoisonnement généralisé. Voilà qui peut poser problème pour la fécondité ultérieure, entre autres. Si le fait de mener une grossesse à terme pose problème pour la santé d’une femme, il y aura toujours la possibilité de césarienne. Nul besoin d’enlever la vie à l’enfant pour autant.

SANTÉ PSYCHOLOGIQUE ET RELATIONNELLE

Les milliers de femmes qui ont subi l’avortement provoqué et qui sont inscrites dans les programmes de guérison post-avortement témoignent souvent que l’avortement les a laissées frigides, froides, distantes et agressives, en plus d’être déprimées et même suicidaires, plusieurs tentant en vain de noyer le mal par l’abus de substances de toutes sortes. Leur relation amoureuse n’a pas pu résister à ce syndrome post-traumatique. Elles avaient, pour plusieurs, recouru à l’avortement pour sauver leur relation, mais l’avortement a fini par la détruire, ainsi que leur capacité d’en nouer une nouvelle.

Il peut arriver qu’on ait recours à l’avortement pour tenter de dissimuler une liaison extra-conjugale. Mais les femmes témoignent que le secret, tant de la liaison que de l’avortement, est lourd à porter. Elles se rendent compte que la règle d’or en matière de relations familiales est bel et bien exacte : « Plus il y a de secrets dans une famille, plus celle-ci est dysfonctionnelle. » Un secret, c’est une mauvaise herbe qui ne fait que grandir avec le temps et qui finit toujours par étouffer tant ceux qui le cachent que ceux de qui il est caché. Qu’on le veuille ou non, l’honnêteté sera toujours la meilleure option (« Honesty is the best policy »). Mais sans les secrets, les romans savons ne pourraient pas perdurer, n’est-ce pas ?!

Révéler une aventure, c’est difficile, mais la cacher, ça l’est encore plus. Si on ne se sent pas prêt à accueillir cet enfant comme le sien, alors il y aura toujours l’adoption, ouverte, semi-ouverte ou fermée. Mener une grossesse à terme, c’est difficile, mais porter les séquelles physiques et psychologiques de l’avortement provoqué, ça l’est encore plus. Il est illusoire de penser que de chercher à se déresponsabiliser des conséquences de ses actes puisse mener au bonheur… Il est aussi illusoire de penser que le fait d’aller contre la vie et la nature soit une bonne stratégie de bonheur et de bien-être.

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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best efforts as human beings to make sense of our lives in general - and of our human sexuality in particular - and to also include the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium; given that the Church has been accumulating the 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     G.S.

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© 2006-2023 All rights reserved Fr. Gilles Surprenant, Associate Priest of Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montreal  QC
© 2006-2023 Tous droits réservés Abbé Gilles Surprenant, Prêtre Associé de Madonna House Apostolate & Poustinik, Montréal QC 

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