Fred E. Mecklenberg, MD professor of Obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and member of the American Association of Planned Parenthood physicians:
“There are no know psychiatric diseases which can be cured by abortion. In addition, there are none which can be predictably improved by abortion….[Rather] it may leave unresolved conflicts coupled with guilt and added depression which may be more harmful than the continuation of the pregnancy.
Furthermore, there is good evidence to suggest that serious mental disorders arise following abortions most often in women with real psychiatric problems. Paradoxically, the very women for whom legal abortion may seem most justifiable are also the ones for whom the risk is highest for post-abortion psychic insufficiency….
When abortion is substituted for adequate psychiatric care – and there is ample evidence to suggest that this is already happening- then there is a distinct danger of minimizing established psychotherapeutic principles. Unfortunately, it is the distressed woman who ultimately suffers the dulling impact of this minimization. She is the one who cries for help, and she is often turned away.”
As quoted in John and Barbara Wilke “Handbook on Abortion” (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing, 1979) 52
Francis J. Beckwith “Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1993)
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