Depression and abortion linked? Surely some mistake!--or so we would be led to believe by the main stream media and the health professionals. When treating women who are depressed do they ask if the woman was ever pregnant, and if the pregnancy ended in abortion? Probbly not.
The pro life movement is often blamed for being obsessed with the crime of abortion and being anti-woman and not caring enough for women in crisis pregnancies. However, the pro life movement, by definition are the only ones who are truly caring for women because it is only the pro life movement that encourages them to choose life, and to deal with an unwanted pregnancy in a way that is positive and will lead the woman to make a choice that will increase her self esteem by helping her make a positive choice.
The only way the pro abortion movement 'helps' women is to help them murder their child, and thus 'helping' them to disdain human life, and (if they have any conscience at all) to disdain themselves, to feel guilty, ashamed and often depressed and suicidal. Does the pro abortion movement 'help' women to 'get over' their guilt and 'move on' and treat the whole affair as no more important than having a tooth pulled? Then they are 'helping' the woman by feeding her a lie. She is therefore much more likely, when the dark clouds of depression loom, to blame something else and never find a cure because she has been told that the abortion would never cause depression or mental health problems. Their propaganda has 'helped' women therefore to wallow in depression and fear without having any chance of discovering the root cause and to find a cure.
Is there a cure for the depression and suicidal feelings that come from a woman having an abortion? Yes. Ministries like Rachel's Vineyard and Silent No More offer counseling and spiritual care. In my experience, a woman who has had an abortion can find healing and reconciliation through the sacrament of confession, and through a healing Mass which has the intention of praying for the repose of the soul of her lost child. This is a powerful form of healing which has helped many many men and women who have been through the trauma of an abortion.
When these ministries of help for women are added to the thousands of women's clinics that provide endless hours of counseling, adoption services, medical aid, financial aid and social aid for women in crisis pregnancies it has to be said that the pro life movement are the only ones who are truly helping not just women, but their children and families.
The pro abortion folks 'help' women in the same way that the Nazis 'helped the Germans' by eliminating a perceived problem: the Jews.
Wonderful Father. Best blog on post abortion problems and hope filled spiritual solutions I've read.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder why they don't ask women having mammograms if they have ever had an abortion. They ask whether you have been on the pill or are on hormone replacement treatment, but they don't ask about abortion history. Surely the information gathered from this would help prove or disprove the link between abortion and breast cancer.
ReplyDeleteYeah! GREAT post! Thank you so much Fr. KEEP IT UP!!!
ReplyDeleteI lived this great lie, and found help through Rachel's Vineyard. Please readers-recommend this program or Silent No More to ANYONE you know who feels suffering from an abortion (that includes the fathers and those who "helped" a woman/women get a(n) abortion(s)).
Interestingly, mental health workers are starting to realize there may be a link between hurting women and abortion.
ReplyDeleteI have bipolar disorder, which started when I was about 19, but wasn't diagnosed until I was 25. While I was hospitalized that first time, a social worker called my parents (with my permission)to get some family background.
One of the things the social worker wanted to know was if I'd gone through something traumatic when I was about 17 or so...apparently a lot of people with bipolar disorder have a traumatic triggering event two years prior to full onset of symptoms (in my case, my mother nearly died of a stroke when I was 17, which was very traumatic).
Both my parents found it very interesting when the social worker asked several times 1. if I'd gotten pregnant around that time and 2. if there was any way I might have had an abortion without their knowledge.
When they told me that, I asked several psychiatrists about that question, and every one told me that they almost always ask about abortion when they're evaluating women about depression or PTSD because it's so common. But you can bet the pro-choice community won't admit it!