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First-trimester induced abortion not associated with increased risk of psychiatric readmission
CHICAGO – First-time first-trimester induced abortion is not associated with an increased risk of readmission to psychiatric facilities among women with a history of a treated mental disorder, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
"Diverging results exist as to whether induced abortions negatively influence mental health, and there is a paucity of sound studies on the topic," the authors write as background information. "Mental health problems are associated with women's reproductive decisions, and predict poor mental health outcomes after abortion. Moreover, most abortions are a result of unintended pregnancies, and the effects of induced abortion are often confounded with the effects of an unwanted pregnancy."
Trine Munk-Olsen, Ph.D., of the National Centre for Register-Based Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether having a first-trimester induced abortion influenced the risk of psychiatric readmission, and compared the findings with the risk of readmission among women with mental disorders who gave birth. The authors gathered data on all women born in Denmark between 1962 and 1992 with a record of one or more psychiatric admissions at least nine months before a first-time first-term induced abortion or childbirth.
A total of 2,838 women with records of mental disorders underwent a first-time first-trimester abortion between January 1994 and December 2007. During the period from nine months before to 12 months after the abortion, 321 women were readmitted. In comparison, 5,293 women with records of mental disorders gave birth to their first live-born child during the same study period and from nine months prior to 12 months after childbirth, 273 were readmitted.
Women's readmission risk in the abortion group declined from before to after the abortion. The crude readmission risk in the abortion group declined from 211 per 1,000 person-years nine months prior to the abortion, to 39 per 1,000 person-years 12 months following the abortion. Overall, incidence rates of readmission were markedly higher among women having abortions compared with readmission rates among women giving birth, both before and after the event. However, among women giving birth, readmission rates were higher during the first month post-partum.
Parental history of mental disorders was associated with an increased risk of readmission; however, risk of readmission was reduced in women with one or more children at the time of abortion. The authors also found that risk of rehospitalization was significantly associated with the number of days since previous discharge in both groups of women.
"Risk of readmission is similar before and after a first-trimester induced abortion, contrasting with a marked increased readmission risk within the first month after childbirth," the authors conclude. "We speculate that recent psychiatric episodes may influence women's decisions to have an induced abortion; however, this decision does not appear to influence the illness course in women with a history of treated mental disorders."
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GOOD! now maybe those
GOOD!
now maybe those pro-life-schizophrenic-fascists will STFU!
THIS IS SCIENCE:
FETUS IS NOT A BABY (GOOGLE THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CHART), but a parasite because the classification of the biological relationship that is based on the behavior one organism (fetus) and how it relates to the woman's body:
as a zygote, it invaded the woman's uterus using its TROPHOBLAST cells, hijacked her immune system by using NEUROKININ B and HCG--- so her body doesn't kill it, steals her nutrients to survive, and causes her harm or potential death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophoblast
"The placenta functions as an immunological barrier between the mother and the fetus, creating an immunologically privileged site. For this purpose, it uses several mechanisms:
It secretes Neurokinin B containing phosphocholine molecules. This is the same mechanism used by parasitic nematodes to avoid detection by the immune system of their host.[2]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_tolerance_in_pregnancy
" Due to its highly-negative charge, hCG may repel the immune cells of the mother, protecting the fetus during the first trimester. It has also been hypothesized that hCG may be a placental link for the development of local maternal immunotolerance."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chorionic_gonadotropin
"It is also possible for a symbiotic relationship to exist between two organisms of the same species."
http://www.answers.com/topic/symbiosis -- Gale's Science of Everyday Things.
just like a parasitic twin --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_twin
"an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parasite
pregnancy CAUSES HARM: http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/004.htm
THE FETUS DOESN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO FEEL PAIN --WHEN MOST ABORTIONS OCCUR.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/06/25/does-the-fetus-feel-pain-uk-report-says-no.html
THIS IS THE LAW: ABORTION IS
THIS IS THE LAW:
ABORTION IS A CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SUPPORTED BY THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT, AND THE 13TH AMENDMENT.
NO HUMAN ( that means the FETUS, too) has a right to life or any due process rights by the 14th amendment to use another human's body or body parts AGAINST their will, civil and constitutional rights: that's why you are not forced to donate your kidney---the human fetus is no exception; this is supported by the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment AND 13th amendment, which makes reproductive slavery unconstitutional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
this makes viability unconstitutional because pregnancy is not a crime.
consensual sex=/= a legal, binding contract to an unwanted fetus to live; and abortion is not murder, the unlawful killing with intent.
THE BIBLE: the bible
THE BIBLE:
the bible supported abortion, that was done by a priest, in god's name, in his holly temple!
the 1984 NIV footnote of numbers 5:11-31 explained what "to thy thigh to rot, they belly to swell" meant: numbers 5:21 "or causes you to have a miscarrying womb and barrenness" to CAUSE a miscarrying womb IS an abortion.
'Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer." Give them, O LORD -- what wilt Thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts...Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.'
HOSEA 9-16
the judeo-christian god is a myth and historical evidence proves it.
3.3.3 ATHEISM: A HISTORY OF GOD (Part 1) Evid3nc3
2nd Foundational Falsehood of Creationism-AronRa
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 28) --thunderf00t
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 29)
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 36)
http://www.evilbible.com/god
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/abortion.html
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