During the recent parliamentary debate in Ireland that lead
to the introduction of abortion and despite scholarly research based evidence
to the contrary, the Irish Government decided that suicide ideation was grounds
for abortion.
Expert psychiatric witnesses explained that in many years of
professional practice they had never found this to be the case. On the contrary
their evidence pointed to the fact that post-abortive women had a propensity to
self-harm that sometimes ended in suicide.
Two high profile cases of suicide broke this week this week
and the reports in both cases referenced abortion as having been a major factor
in the subsequent depression that tragically ultimately led to suicide.
The first tragic suicide was that of an Australian model and
TV star Charlotte Dawson, after a long battle with depression, originally
triggered by an abortion back in 1999. According to news stories Dawson it was
decided that she should abort her first child with Olympic swimmer husband
Scott Miller because her due date coincided with the 2000 summer Olympics and
Miller was so focused on his own pursuits that a child was not welcome in the
picture at the time. Dawson says they planned to try to have children later,
but the marriage broke up shortly afterwards and she ultimately died without
living children.
The Daily Telegraph reported:
‘But friends believe she had never really gotten over her
marriage to Miller, which ended in divorce after only a year. In her tell-all
autobiography Air Kiss And Tell, she revealed she had an abortion because the
pregnancy would interfere with Miller’s preparation for the 2000 Olympics — and
blamed that for the start of her long battle with depression.’
The second case reported in the Daily Mail relates to an
Oxford student who committed suicide following the break up of her relationship
with her boyfriend. The report however cites the torment she suffered following
an abortion
Oxford student Charlotte Coursier committed suicide six
hours after her boyfriend ended their relationship
A 'talented and gifted' Oxford University student hanged
herself after her boyfriend of 11 months ended their relationship.
Charlotte Coursier was struggling to cope with a 'campaign
of harassment' inflicted on her by a college lecturer, as well as the torment
of having aborted a pregnancy.
An inquest heard how Miss Coursier was found dead at home by
her housemates in June last year.
The incidence of increased mental health problems associated
with abortion is well documented and can be found in the Fergusson Study (2006)
and the Coleman Meta-Analysis (2011). Sadly this is denied for both ideological
and financial reasons by the abortion industry
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and
Gynecologists AAPLOG report that compared with birth abortion has a 600%
increased risk of suicide and the timing very often corresponds to anniversary
grief.
AAPLOG cite the Gissler Record Link (1997) that found that
the risk of suicide after birth was half that of the general population but
that the risk of suicide following an abortion was 600% greater than following
a birth.
