Dear ProLife Colleague, On of the most disgusting and harmful aspects of the American abortion scene is the marked inadequacy of informed consent generally associated with the grisly abortion business. For those who believe in “evidence based medicine,” the evidence for abortion associated complications is abundant. Increased mental health effects (depression, ptsd, anxiety), preterm birth, breast cancer, placenta previa, and SUICIDE all have a well documented evidence trail. SUICIDE?? ARE YOU KIDDING?? NO, WE ARE NOT KIDDING! Did you not know about abortion and suicide? You do now. 2 huge studies are noted on our website, both with prospective data, computer based. The Finnish study by Gisler includes 697,000 pregnancies, and looks at maternal health status 1 year after delivery and 1 year after abortion. The suicide rate is six times higher after abortion. SIX TIMES HIGHER. A second study by Reardon in southern Calfornia , involving 173,000 pregnant women over an 8 year period, showed a the suicide rate for women who had abortions to be 3.1 times higher than women who delivered. 3.1 TIMES HIGHER. Why are these suicide statistics not a part of your medical education, (or general public knowledge)? Ask your professors. Find both studies at https://www.aaplog.org/complications-of-induced-abortion/induced-abortion-and-maternal-mortality/induced-abortion-and-maternal-suicide/ A light from South Dakota on the horizon? YES! In a South Dakota informed consent case, the 8th Circuit Court agrees with us. This is one of the most significant federal court decisions on the risks to women since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand in l973. Below are snippets. The 8th Circuit decision holds that: “In conclusion, we hold that the requirements of S.D.C.L. § 34-23A-10.1(1)(e)(ii) are satisfied by a disclosure that the relative risk of suicide and suicide ideation is higher for women who abort compared to women in other relevant groups, as described in the relevant medical research. ….. The disclosure is truthful, as evidenced by a multitude of studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals that found an increased risk of suicide for women who had received abortions compared to women who gave birth, miscarried, or never became pregnant….. Moreover, the suicide advisory is non-misleading and relevant to the patient’s decision to have an abortion, as required by Casey. It is a typical medical practice to inform patients of statistically significant risks that have been associated with a procedure through medical research, even if causation has not been proved definitively….. the State merely is using “its regulatory authority to require a physician to provide truthful, non-misleading information relevant to a patient’s decision to have an abortion,…”…… On its face, the suicide advisory presents neither an undue burden on abortion rights nor a violation of physicians’ free speech rights. Accordingly, we reverse the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Planned Parenthood……. these risks…. are well-documented in the scientific literature…… …Also significant is the Court’s overwhelming acceptance of the medical literature demonstrating a link between abortion and suicide. The Court stated that the studies submitted by South Dakota “are sufficiently reliable to support the truth of the proposition that the relative risk of suicide and suicide ideation is higher for women who abort their pregnancies compared to women who give birth or have not become pregnant,” and that this risk is “generally ‘known.'”…… The Court also described at length the potential methodological flaws in a report by the American Psychological Association, which illegitimately refuted the link between abortion and suicide……” COMMENT: Overall, the opinion contains a wealth of significant holdings which will work to protect women in South Dakota, the Eighth Circuit, and potentially beyond. The Eighth Circuit has started to pull the veil off the abortion industry’s dirty little secret: that abortion harms women.
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