Frequently I am asked for a one stop documentation of the vast array of negative consequences that can and do follow the decision to abort. “Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women” is just such a resource.
Abortion’s after-effects on women has been devastating, as significant as they are unrecognized by the wider public. “Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women,” written by pro-life physicians and scholars, is a 400+ page book published by our Canadian friends at The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research. It is a kind of successor to an earlier, equally thorough book by the non-profit think-tank—“Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence.”
Built on over 100 interviews with women who have had abortions and includes contributions from physicians, psychiatrists, and researchers, Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women is the kind of must-read book that is best consumed a chapter at a time.
Compiled and analyzed by a Trifecta of authors–Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, Dr. Ian Gentles and Dr. Elizabeth-Ring Cassidy—this ten-years-in-the-making book is divided into four major sections: “The Big Picture”; “The Medical Impact”; “The Psychological and Social Impact”; and “Women’s Voices.”
The Introduction’s first paragraph summarizes what the next 21 chapters will document:
“For all three authors the driving force behind this book is the concern about the ill effects—largely unknown, and for the most part unpublicized—of induced abortion on women. After several years of intense research we are more than ever persuaded of the urgency of communication this information to medical professional, counselors, and to women who are contemplating having an abortion.”
The book brings new dimensions to the word “rigorous.” It’s built on more than 650 papers, books, and official documents that examine abortion world-wide.
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“This book comes as an enormous relief to many of us who have been studying abortion for decades,“ explains Dr. Priscilla Coleman, PhD, professor at Bowling Green University. “Finally, there is a credible, evidence-based resource to inform medicine, psychology, and law. Moreover, the science is now available in a condensed and easily accessible form to women facing difficult pregnancies and coping with ill-effects of abortion.”
For those who read NRL News Today regularly, it will come as no surprise that a thorough vetting of the research on abortion’s after-shocks would run counter to the statements of institutions, public and private, who have failed at their job of looking out for the safety of women.
That truth shows up again and again in Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women. For example, one of Dr. Lanfranchi’ s chapters, “Biology and epidemiology confirm the abortion-breast cancer link,” is an exquisite explanation why there MUST be an increase in a woman’s risk of having breast cancer if she has an induced abortion. Equally well, she debunks the customary naysayers, including the National Cancer Institute.
The book extensively examines the evidence that abortion has considerable psychological implications for women, which pro-abortionists and their enablers adamantly deny. The authors write that they “provide solid documentation, from several counters that challenge the statement of the American Psychological Association that induced abortion has no adverse psychological effects upon women.”
Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women ends by listening to women and their riveting accounts of their abortion experience. The stories of the 101 women have a common theme: regret and a resolve not to abort again. “These stories, as well as many more from other sources, expose the illusion that abortion is a free choice and a liberating experience for women.”
In interviews Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy, another of the authors, emphasized that the intended audience is much wider than the medical community. “This is for the educated lay person who is interested in the area but who just doesn’t have the time or the capacity for some reason to take on looking at all of this research themselves,” she said. “(So) we are putting it together for them.”
Details about purchasing the book can be found at www.deveber.org/complications.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
