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Friday, 27 May 2005
Cannabalism in not an American "value".
Please remember that God said, "thou shalt not kill" and it is recorded in Exodus 20:13. The on-going debate in Congress about whether embryonic stem cell research should be funded by taxpayers is morally equivalent to taxpayers paying for the gassing of the Jews in Hitler's day of terror. The tiniest humans in the wombs of their mothers are from the human sperm and human egg of humans, possess human DNA from one cell,move about from one cell, take in nourishment and excrete wastes all as one very complex cell. The debate about the legalization of cannabalism must end righteously. Killing the tiniest members of the human species for any reason is not acceptable in a civilization and never has been. Whether the label applied to it, is "research" or "eugenics" or "abortion" or "health cure" or "future benefits" or whatever, killing humans for their body parts is abhorrent to those who know God. Added insult to that heinous crime of killing in abortuaries is processing the tiny humans like one would fillet a fish and then chopping them finer for test tubes and microscope slides. The horror of it is beyond belief! There is no such thing even as the right of a mother to kill her offspring and God willing there never will be, and let the US take it one step further and say that never as long as this land exists will products for human ingestion or injection be made of human flesh and blood. For more on human development visit my site at Online Educator

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Thursday, 19 May 2005
Those who cannot go to heaven...
"Be not deceived. Neither fornicators,nor idolators, nor adulterers nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind [homosexuals in the footnote] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God...what?? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two,saith HE, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto The Lord is one Spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [Spirit], which is in you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body,and in your spirit which are God's." I Corinthians 6:9-10 & 16-20

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Monday, 9 May 2005
On hearing from God
Jesus said, "if God were your Father, ye would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent Me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear My Word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar and the father of it. He that is of God heareth God's words; ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God."John 8:42-47


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Sunday, 1 May 2005
You're gonna love this ...
Mood:  happy
I have created a new site and it is very exciting and I think you will like it. Visit it at:
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signed, gloria

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Tuesday, 19 April 2005
Selfish individualism v the love of God
Topic: God's Love
by Gloria Poole Pappas

I think a lot and I write a lot and have arrived at this article to put into words what I believe is the solution for any nation. The problems of any nation seem to hinge upon certain factors. Psalms 33:12 is written, ?blessed is the nation whose God is The Lord.? Sometimes it seems as if the biggest problem in the ?United? States, that are anything but united these days, is the idea that a person, any person has no duty to anyone but himself or herself. In my efforts to plead the cause of the preborn humans and their right from God Himself for life, I am confronted with people who think that what happens on this earth is all that happens, but it is not so. That attitude seems to account for the abortion industry where the mother takes no thought of a duty to her preborn baby, and it accounts for the drug users who do not care about their wives or their children; and it accounts for the shopaholics who prefer to squander their time with their children by working for pay, so they can spend more. Those are the three most immediate examples I can think of, but the list is endless. The homosexuals who do not think about reproducing themselves for the sake of their family line or name, or the gratitude of their parents are also guilty of a narcisstic selfishness that obliterates from consideration everyone around them. The politicians who make decisions based upon what is good for their political careers and not what is good for the nation are the worst as far as the public laws of the nation is concerned.

I sat down and applied myself to know what would God say about the US and I wondered if I could ask Him to come down in person, sit a spell and talk to me the way He talked to Abraham, what would HE say? I thought if a person could back up the world?s knowledge to a point where it made sense, where would that point be? Where in time was the truth so bold and so clear that there was no confusion ? That time would be when God created the world and there was just Him and then Adam, his first creation in the human form, and then Eve, God?s second creation in the human form. The paradise existed and the words of God were apparently precisely clear and simple to Adam as he was able to record them in some way for eternity. What was God?s first Commandment to Adam and Eve? It is written,? And God blessed them, and God said unto them, ?be fruitful and multiply; and replenish the earth and subdue it; and have dominion.? Genesis 1:28. Start at the beginning or make first things first! So if God?s Commandment then was to be fruitful and multiply and by doing so, replenish the earth, why are the leaders of nations and some of their government approved ngos teaching the opposite of God?s words? It can only be for two reasons.

Either they do not believe in God or His words, or they do not want to replenish but destroy. If they do not believe, why are they elected to office by believers? Isn?t the words in Titus 1:15, ?unto the pure all things are pure; but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.? So if their minds are not pure, but defiled and they have no conscience, why would anyone want them to make public laws? If the second argument were true, that by being in office they intend to destroy the nation, then who would they be serving? Where does the destroyer come from? According to John 8:44, those who deceive and murder are from the devil. So then if those who murder innocent babies are from the devil, why do God?s people vote for them? Why are they elected to office? Jesus repeats the message when He says, ?the thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I AM come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.? [John 10:10] So again I ask,if killing and deceiving is from the devil and life and truth are from God, why do God?s people elect deceivers and murderers of the preborn to office? If the citizens can grasp certain basics, then they can make the lives of everyone better and stabilize their nations.

How does a nation combat the selfish individualism? It is certainly not by teaching socialism or communal property?that experiment has failed dismally for common sense reasons. When no one owns anything, then no one takes care of anything or anyone, since the attitude is ?let the government do it?, and collectively the nation falls apart. So what then is the truth and the solution that sets nations back on track toward prosperity and life?

It is written, ?And now, Israel [and any who love God] what doth The Lord thy God require of thee? But to fear The Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve The Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the Commandments of The Lord, which I command thee this day, for thy good?? [Deuteronomy 10:12-13] Jesus, the Godhead in the flesh?Messiah-- repeated that same message several times. Jesus said unto him, ?thou shalt love The Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets.?[ Matthew 22:37-40]

If a nation is filled with people who love God first and serve Him and obey His commandments, and then love their neighbors as they are commanded by God to do, would there be any crime? Would someone who loves with the love of God steal, or covet, or commit adultery knowing it would break someone?s heart? Would they deceive, or murder the innocents? If the love of God, that all encompassing, sacrificial love of Jesus existed in each person?s heart, could that person be selfish? Or would he be like Jesus, about The Father?s business, doing good deeds, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, casting away demons and idols? Didn?t Jesus Himself take a whip and drive away those who attempted to pervert the purpose of the Temple of worship by their retail business of exchanging coinage from nations?

If the citizens of every nation followed the words of Jesus to ?teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you? [Matthew 28:19-20] and the love of God was taught, would the world be a better place? In at least seven Scriptures God admonishes us to teach our children His laws. Deuteronomy 4:10 is written, ?The Lord said unto me,?gather me the people together, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they teach their children.? Again, in Deuteronomy 11:19, it is repeated, ?and ye shall teach them [the words of God] your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house,and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou riseth up.And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house and upon thy gates, that thy days may be multiplied, and the days of your children...? The message of teach your chidren the words of God is repeated in Leviticus 10:11, 2 Samuel 1:18, Deuteronomy 31:19,.Deuteronomy 6:7, and many other scriptures. Jesus, the Godhead in the flesh when He came to earth, showed by example His love and concern for children when He called a little one to Him and told the observers that unless they became as pure in their hearts as the little ones they would not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [Matthew chapter 18], and He warned them that any who would harm a little one, ?it would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe...?. Jesus laid down the law about the treatment and attitude of children with His words when He said, ?whoso shall receive one such little child in My name, receiveth Me.? [Matthew 18:5]. Would the ultimate child abuse that kills the infant, [abortion] be ?legal? if the nation loved God? Would the physical and emotional abuse of children and the sexual molestation and the sexual predators be rampant in all nations if the words and behaviors of Jesus were exemplified by the men of the world? Would sexual ?trafficking? the polite, pc word for prostitution and pimping, be a problem in the ?United? States or anywhere if the words of Jesus were taught in the schools?

What other problems would the words of God solve in this nation or any nation? Ephesians 5:25 & 28 is written, ?husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for it...so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.? If men loved their wives like Jesus said too, would there be any unhappy wives? Would there be any divorces? If a man had the attitude he is supposed to sacrifice for his wife and love her without question and even die for her as Christ gave Himself if need be, would not that love so permeate the household and the heart of his wife that she would have no interest in another man or be tempted to leave him? Would there be any jealousy or bitterness in the hearts of the wives of America if men loved women instead of themselves? If God?s love was the foundation, could anything shake the marriage? Wouldn?t any woman love a man who loved her like that ? I often think of that song, ?I can love you like that? that I heard The Second Generation Osmond brothers sing in New York and I can tell you, I was stunned by the power and love of that song the way they sang it! Women have hearts of flesh and they are affected profoundly when their husbands love them truly with the love of God.

Now, what about the children? Would they love the father and the mother who loved them sacrificially? Who taught them right from wrong in order that they might achieve success and love? Who diligently, patiently and faithfully taught by example the love of God to them? Wouldn?t they grow up to be secure in the concept and belief in love and wouldn?t they also have the courage to marry and be parents? Wouldn?t they replicate the love of the parents? And the love of God to their children in turn? When a nation teaches the children the right beliefs the nation achieves peace, joy, prosperity because as the children grow up in love and faith, they live by it.

What is the reward for this kind of living for the people, the home, and the nation? The peace of God! Jesus said, ?peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.? [John 14:27] The message is repeated in II Corinthians 13:11, ?be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you.?

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Posted by gloria76653 at 8:01 PM MDT
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Saturday, 9 April 2005
"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones"
Jesus said "take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven, their Angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven. " Matthew 18:10 The wicked do despise the little ones and they seek ways to eliminate them from all nations, as the US and the world have seen this past week. We all watched the fuss over the Amendment by the US to make it plain that the US and four other nations, do not support any programmes that include abortion as a "right". It is time for the Angels in heaven who can approach The Father God to make their appeal to Him and plead the cause of the innocents before Him and remind Him of His own Commandment of 'thou shalt not kill' in Exodus 20:13. The wicked must not be allowed to prevail and the killing of innocents has to stop. The worst terrorism of all is that violence in the womb when a premeditated murder of a BABY takes place! Prolife Speaking by Registered Nurse website: Prolife quotes and human development

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Monday, 4 April 2005
About the living
"For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." Eccelesiates 9:4-5

One of the most remarkable characteristics of the Bible is its ability to say a whopping lot of wisdom in 1-2 scriptures! The scriptures above tell me that in whateever situation a human person is living, life is better than death. They also tell me that the reward of heaven must be worked out with God as an act of faith in Jesus in this life because the rewards are no more after they die the first death of the human body. In other words, if a person dies in his or her sins, their fate for eternity is decided. Those Scriptures also tell me that praying to the dead as some religions do is a waste of time, since the "dead know not anything."

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Tuesday, 29 March 2005
Geneva Convention defines starvation as war crime
Quote from article, The Nazis used starvation to kill" in Newsmax.com, March 26,2005:

"To begin with, there is the long-standing and internationally accepted Geneva Convention: "The prohibition to starve civilians as a ‘method of warfare’ is included in Article 54 of Protocol I and Article 14 of Protocol II."

According to the International Criminal Court, starvation as a means of killing is a war crime. The Court noted: "Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions' is a serious violation of the laws and customs of war [52]."


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Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Federal Judge James W is not the Saviour after all!
If the US didn't know it before,they know it now. Neither Federal Judges, nor the US Congress feel any duty to abide by the written words of the US Constitution! I don't think anyone is surprised by that who has been watching the activist Judges across the nation and in the US Supreme Court put a spin on the written words about life,liberty and property. In Connecticut, they are finding out that "eminent domain" means to the Supreme Court that all property is owned by the government. That is one of the platforms of the Communist Manifesto that Harvard has been pushing for decades now. Another principle of communism is that human life is not important, and that all decisions are to be made by communist leaders for the "good" [power, status] of the party,not the good of the citizens.

Well, today the US has endured another assault against liberty by the ruling of Federal Judge James Whittemore, against life for Terri Schiavo. No one is surprised. He was purposely chosen for his "job" by the feds because he was proabort and the proabortion President at that time, Bill Clinton,appointed him and shielded him from personal attack from Arlen Specter. By the way, don't you think the word, "specter" --ghost or apparition, is right for that wicked man?
Now, why is anyone surprised about the prodeath Judge's ruling for death? Don't the wicked do their evil and doesn't God know it? Isn't God more powerful than satan? We as a nation don't realize it yet, but we are deep in the throes of the abortion war. The parallel of today's ruling by the federal judge was similar to the Reichstag passing the laws labeling Jews as "non-Aryans" for expediency in convincing their nation that it was all right to kill "non-Aryans".Terri is labeled, "unfit for life"by the death Judge, but God is more powerful than any human Judge--we know that!
I am reminded of how terribly grim the situation must have been as the Israelites walked out of Egypt and out of bondage on foot with the Pharoah and his troops in hot pursuit. The situation must have been very scary to all in that group! The tension built up to the last possible moment that God had to do something and HE did the dramatic and the powerful and HE eliminated His enemies! While dealing with HIS enemies of course, the believers were awed and they were also saved. So let us all watch and pray and see what God will do in this case to save Terri Schiavo from the villains.

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Friday, 18 March 2005
Michael Schiavo trumps Congress
Today, that wicked man Michael Schiavo who has been petitioning the Court in Florida to kill his handicapped wife, trumped the Congress. He and the phony Judge* George Greer, refused to obey the subpoena issued by Congress to Terri for her to appear for evaluation. They proceeded to remove her feeding tube. However, they have failed to take God into account in this situation and the millions of people who are praying and watching this case. Will killing the benefactor by the beneficiary become law? Will evil prevail? Will that incompetent and equally wicked Congress just roll over and play dead now that they have been made a fool of? Will God do something? Or does HE think the US deserves a sorry-good-for-nothing and worst than useless, Congress? I am praying that GOD will do something and that it will be spectacular. Of course, HE has already created in the US the same kind of scenario that existed when the Jews were in bondage in Egypt thousands of years ago. God has created the modern day US version of Pharaoh,[George Greer] who refuses to honor God's words of "thou shalt not kill" and who has openly defied the prophets sent to warn him, and he has insisted that he himself is the only law and that there is no God. So now, will God drown the wicked in the sea? Will He use this case to utterly destroy the US Congress and all its wicked selfish "members" who serve their false gods instead of the ONE true God? What will God do? Stay tuned to my blogs or to http://postitnews.com [click on blue square, "Prolife activst"

* phony because he does not know that the 14th Amendment gives persons the right to life, and Terri is a person by all definitions. Greer must be an imposter.

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Tuesday, 15 March 2005
Downgraded Biotech Industry, per Standard & Poors!
According to Forbes News, Standard and Poor's Equity Research downgraded the entire biotech industry from a positive rating to a "neutral" one, for many reasons. See Forbes article, "Biotech Bargain Hunting" by Peter Kang, March 14,05. This is very good news to me as a Registered Nurse and prolifer because it means biotech will not be as attractive to investors. And that is very good news! Biotech industries use human cells, human flesh and blood to create products for human consumption whether by injection or ingestion. Either way, I ask often, 'what about cannabalism appeals to you?' when anyone tries to tell me that biotech is good. Biotechnology is BAD news everywhere globally and I believe it is the cause of the AIDS worldwide problems and many others because the contaminated "cell lines" of human cells mixed with animals even rodents,[so filthy God said not to touch them] were passed around the research labs around the world. The same disease in a vial was transmitted to many places and the unsterile collection devices multiplied the problems. The places that buy blood or tissues are not done by Operating Room Standards of sterility by any stretch of imagination and even if they were, the use of human flesh and blood to create products for sale is an abomination to God! The idea of swallowing a pill made of humans is so repugnant to me that it gags me to think it. I just avoid all meds and have for decades since I began to discover just what the motives were i.e. huge profits to corrupt companies that have no more concern for the public than a wicked and corrupt politician has. Wicked and corrupt politicians are the root cause of the biotech industry having any legal right to operate in this nation or any nation. All human baby dicing and slicing processing for "research" factories need to be permanently shut down!

Posted by gloria76653 at 9:59 AM MST
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Friday, 11 March 2005
The path of life
"Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope...You [O God] will show me the path of life; In your presence is fullness of joy; At your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalms 16:9, 11

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Saturday, 5 March 2005
US Supreme Court ends killing as punishment for minors!
This past Tuesday, in the case, Roper v Simmons, the US Supreme Court decided that capital punishment of minors is illegal in the US. Well, Hallelujah Jesus! Let us all pray now that the truth will sink in--that killing of minor children in the wombs of their mothers is also illegal, and that all righteous lawyers will jump on this case like a duck on a June bug; and shut down every abortion clinic, every abortionist, every ngo that promotes the killing of minor babies as a "solution".. The pivotal line is drawn--killing of minors is illegal in the US as a punishment for crime or sins. Therefore it surely must follow to the logical and rational minds that if killing for misdeeds, crimes and sins is illegal then it is also illegal to kill the law-abiding, peaceful in the womb, and other places citizens also. There is not a two-tiered government in the US! Maybe this was the backdoor approach to delegalizing abortion and if so, then all I can say is THANK YOU GOD for bringing it about! And thank you to the Supreme Court also for seeing the light. gloria poole pappas,(RN)

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Thursday, 3 March 2005
Statement by Attorney General Phill Kline of Kansas
The beginning sentence of this Press Release is the kicker about the importance: "Senator and Dr. Barnett, and Senators Wagle and Journey are correct: rape is a serious crime, and when a 10.11, or 12 year old is pregnant, they have been raped under Kansas law." The AG's Press Release is a call for national and international support in the cause of defending children from sexual predators. Read his whole statement at: www.accesskansas.org/ksag/Press/2005/0224childrenrape_statement.htm/ Do your part in your state to bring the issue of child rape and sexual predator tolerance by schools and abortion clinics to the forefront. Minor children cannot give consent to sex and that is the way it should be! Children do not need to be sexually active and they do need a childhood.

Posted by gloria76653 at 9:27 AM MST
Updated: Thursday, 3 March 2005 9:31 AM MST
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Saturday, 26 February 2005
Risk of Psych Hospitalization Rises After Abortion
5/13/2003 News Release from The Elliott Institute, used with permission. http://www.afterabortion.info/ Risk of Psychiatric Hospitalization Rises After Abortion New Study Riles Abortion Defenders Springfield, Ill. - Is abortion a benign experience for women? Or can it cause or contribute to emotional problems, even severe ones? The American Psychological Association (APA), which has consistently lobbied in favor of abortion rights, has frequently insisted that abortion is a benign experience that predominately brings relief to most women. Some APA members, such as Nancy Adler and Brenda Major of the University of California, have even charged that those who say abortion can cause emotional problems are guilty of misleading the public. To support this view, Adler has argued that abortion is so common that if it did cause emotional problems, the nation's psychiatric wards would be filled with the evidence. Now, a new study published in the latest issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) shows that such evidence does exist. A review of the medical records of 56,741 California Medicaid patients revealed that women who had abortions were 2.6 times more likely than delivering women to be hospitalized for psychiatric treatment in the first 90 days following abortion or delivery. Depressive psychosis was the most common diagnosis. Rates of psychiatric treatment remained significantly higher for at least four years. A previously published study by the same authors revealed that women who had abortions were also more likely to require subsequent outpatient mental health care. According to the CMAJ study's lead author, David Reardon, Ph.D., a common complaint among participants in post-abortion recovery programs is that when they raised the issue of their past abortions while seeking mental health care, their therapists dismissed abortion as irrelevant. "Therapists who fixate on the 'abortion is benign' theory, either out of ignorance or allegiance to defensive political views on abortion, are doing a great disservice to women who need understanding and support," said Reardon, who recently co- authored a book, Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion. "This study, based on objective medical records, validates the claims of tens of thousands of women in post-abortion recovery programs." In an effort to offer an opposing view, CMAJ editors invited psychologist Brenda Major, an advocate for the view that abortion is therapeutic, to submit a commentary on the study appearing in the same issue of the CMAJ. In her commentary, Major charged that the study's implication that abortion can cause psychiatric problems is misleading. She argued other factors, such as marital status or prior psychological problems, may offer better explanations for the fact that psychiatric problems are more common among aborting women. Reardon concedes that these other factors may also contribute to psychiatric illness but insists that abortion can both aggravate pre-existing problems and trigger new ones. He dismissed Major's commentary as a product of "the abortion distortion effect." Reardon particularly questioned Major's choice to omit from her comments any mention her own study recently published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. That study revealed that 1.4 percent of the women interviewed two years after their abortions suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder solely attributable to their abortions. Even such a low percentage, projected on the 1.3 million American women undergoing abortions eachyear, would result in 18,200 cases of PTSD each year, or over a half million cases since 1973. Including other types of negative reactions, Reardon said, could easily increase the overall complication rate by twenty times or more. This is the seventh study Reardon and his colleagues have published on abortion complications in the last eighteen months. Among the other studies, also published in major peer reviewed journals, one revealed that among women with an unintended first pregnancy, those who had abortions were at significantly higher risk of clinical depression an average of eight years later compared to similar women who carried their unintended first pregnancies to term. Higher rates of suicide and substance abuse among women who had abortions were also revealed in the other studies published by the research team. More information and a link to the study is available at: http://www.afterabortion.org/news/inpatient CMAJ.html

Posted by gloria76653 at 3:30 PM MST
Updated: Saturday, 26 February 2005 3:31 PM MST
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