tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post4585205618570427481..comments2023-12-31T13:11:40.044-05:00Comments on Newscat: One More Time: PAS Doesn't ExistNewsCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-34330550034702467532008-04-13T11:19:00.000-05:002008-04-13T11:19:00.000-05:00Ahhhh, but Vargas not every vet that came home fro...Ahhhh, but Vargas not every vet that came home from Vietnam suffered PTSD or suffered life-long lasting debilitating trauma. (The key word is debilitating...not did X event effect you, but did X event prevent you from performing otherwise normal activities.)<BR/><BR/>The reason why I am dismissing PAS is not because I am refusing to see the evidence. The evidence isn't there to show that "abortion" in and of itself causes permenant harm. No one is claiming that someone who has an abortion might not spiral into a depression (just as someone who has a miscarriage or a rape might not also go into a depression.)<BR/><BR/>By the way have none of you also heard of postpartum depression? Where giving birth can lead to <A HREF="http://www.suicide.org/postpartum-depression-and-suicide.html" REL="nofollow">suicidal thoughts</A> and near inability to take care of oneself? Why is that not a "bigger" concern than PAS to you? Why shouldn't postpartum depression, the description of which can be made to sound as horrifying as possible, be told to all women who want to give birth. "Don't GIVE BIRTH! IT MAKES YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF!!!!"<BR/><BR/>The point isn't tit for tat. The point is women can judge for themselve the risks, and inflating an unsubstantiated "risk" in order to scare women isn't really a good way to force them to bare children when they don't wan to.<BR/><BR/>I guess it does bug when someone wants to inflate the risks of having an abortion (which while safe, of course has risks. Getting a root canal has a "risk") but then completely ignores or discounts the real and very proven risks to giving birth.NewsCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-45562048193907117422008-04-12T00:48:00.000-05:002008-04-12T00:48:00.000-05:00There was once a time when the military denied tha...There was once a time when the military denied that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder existed. Never mind the fact that untold thousands of Vietnam vets were coming back completely whacked out and mentally broken. PTSD didn't exist until the din of voices broken down/drug addicted/alcoholic and homeless vets that kept crying out couldn't be ignored. <BR/><BR/>Looks like Pro-choice movement is following the military's pattern of denial.V.A. Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313347342389218714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-9674349139608983272008-04-08T08:00:00.000-05:002008-04-08T08:00:00.000-05:00Dear Newscat,Open-mindedness never hurt anyone!!Yo...Dear Newscat,<BR/><BR/>Open-mindedness never hurt anyone!!<BR/><BR/>You know The idea of immunizations being a factor in Autism didn't exist and the medical community refused to admit it until a few short months ago either! Since when did the medical community become super-human, all-being all-knowing. Need I remind you that we're all the same breed of human capable of being WRONG WRONG WRONG all the time????? <BR/><BR/>Am I getting through? <BR/><BR/>If a mother can suffer from PTSD from a miscarriage or a still birth why in the world would you ever think that someone who deliberately contributes to the death of their unborn child wouldn't have lasting issues, implications, and serious emotional damage???<BR/><BR/>Hope this got you thinking but somehow considering the close mindedness here I highly doubt it!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-60677299893092391482008-01-23T14:51:00.000-05:002008-01-23T14:51:00.000-05:00Motor cycling without a helmet doesn't necessarily...Motor cycling without a helmet doesn't necessarily harm anyone else. Abortion, by definition, always does.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if PAS exists, any more than I know if evolution is fact or if global warming is primarily caused by carbon-based fuels. But I do know that dismissing it so enthusiastically doesn't pass the smell test. It is like tobacco companies arguing that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Sure, it might be true, but the motivation behind the position sheds doubt on the position.<BR/><BR/>Jim in ClevelandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-54642738049910827422008-01-20T14:35:00.000-05:002008-01-20T14:35:00.000-05:00Dear Newscat, what requirement would you have fo...Dear Newscat,<BR/> what requirement would you have for proof that PAS does exist*? <BR/> <BR/> We must remember of course that correlation is not always causation. But, what is needed for procedure A causes effect B for us to see that procedure A is dangerous. <BR/> Insert abortion, blogging, smoking, driving drunk, suntanning, tattoos, sex w/o condom, voting Republican,....<BR/><BR/>Secondly...I have to agree with you...just because I regret doing something doesn't mean that it should be against the law. I lean libertarian, if it don't hurt anyone else, I should be allowed to do it. There needs to be a strong/good compelling reason for the government to restrict my freedoms when only I am to be harmed by my actions. <BR/><BR/>(So, by my logic, motor-cycling w/o helmet should be allowed.) <BR/><BR/>*Someone asked an evolutionary biologist what he would need for proof against evolution, he quickly said, "finding rabbit fossils in the Jurassic period."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com