Meta Uchtman, regional director of Suiciders Anonymous, spoke at the Cincinnati City Council Sept 1, 1981 in support of the Parental Notification ordinance for abortion :
“The Cincinnati group has seen 5,620 members in 35 months. Over 4,000 were women of whom 1,800 or more had had abortions. The highest suicide rate is in the 15 to 24 age group. There is a direct link….it is an act of cruelty to remove parental duties and rights during an abortion crisis….Any experience that forces an individual to feel that sense of lonely isolation and complete abandonment is a crisis and when you exclude someone (parents) who can reach a hand out to you, someone who cares- the crisis is worsened. Without the strength and health from a family, you are actually giving birth to a suicide.”
From Right to Life Committee of Greater Cincinnati Inc. Newsletter (September 1981) p 102-103 of Gail Grenier-Sweet, ed “Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices” (Lewiston, NY: Life Cycle Books 1985)
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