Well at least it is according to all those wacky anti-choice advocates who just make stuff up like that because they hate freedom, right? Have you ever wondered what kind of evidence it would take for a pro-choice researcher to admit the connection between abortion and any of its negative effects? (You know, depression, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, anxiety, sleep disorders, and other psychiatric problems, just to name a few). The answer is a lot.
So when David M. Ferugsson, pro-choice professor, noted in a paper on abortion and mental health,
"it is difficult to disregard the real possibility that abortion is associated with increased risks of mental health problems,"
it makes you wonder what he stumbled upon. You can sense his grasp of the definite problematic nature of abortion and simultaneously see his hesitancy to admit the damages of abortion. He comes off strong, "it is difficult to disregard the real possibility..." then he kicks it over into a defensive mode of, "but that is ridiculous and could never happen." His language shows his compensation for hiding the shocking truth. "...that abortion is associated with increased risk..."
Associated? Perhaps they are acquaintances? What he's doing is acknowledging a fact with weak language. The double-effect here is that while he can say he is reporting his findings, he is also saying "there is no conclusive evidence."
Allow me to rephrase his statement, "Only an idiot could ignore the obvious connection between abortion and poor mental health, but it would be a presumptuous long-shot to assume there is a link between abortion and mental health problems. And of course, that depends on what your definition of is is."
read it: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01538.x
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Wait, so you're saying there's a connection? And I suppose I shouldn't eat paint chips either... seems like everything'll kill you these days.
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