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Vol. 13, No. 7 --
October 30, 2014
Conscience Leads to More Complete Support for
Women
Cushta Hassan, RN & Joseph Hassan,
MBchB
A year ago, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand published Rose
Stewart’s challenging article, “Conscience ‘not always a force for
good’,” giving her perspective on conscience and health care.[1]
In the article, Stewart expressed her concern that health professionals
who invoke their conscientious objection to abortion or contraception
risk infringing the rights of women to reproductive health care. She
argued “conscience is not always a force for good.”
In this article, we suggest freedom of conscience is essential for a
health-care worker and protects the rights of the patient, the
health-care worker and society as a whole.
As health-care workers, we bring ourselves as whole persons to our
important role. We are present as real people, not robots. Our
background, culture, beliefs, and especially conscience, will and
should, affect how we care for our patients.
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Still Trying to Use Junk Science to Disprove Post-Abortion Trauma
Syndrome
Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D.
On October 6th an article titled
Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth?, written by Zawn
Villines, appeared on GoodTherapy. In order to address the question she
poses, Villines does not focus on the large international body of
peer-reviewed scientific evidence indicating that abortion increases women’s
risk of experiencing mental health problems. Instead she exclusively
describes results of the flawed
Turnaway Study, led by Diana Greene Foster.
Villines highlights the Turnaway findings that there were no significant
differences in mental health trajectories between (1) women who had
abortions and (2) those denied abortions, because their pregnancies had
advanced beyond the legal gestational limit. Villines neglected to mention
that 60 percent of the women in the Turnaway group who continued their
pregnancies expressed happiness about their pregnancies. And no mention is
made by Villines of the glaring methodological shortcomings of the Turnaway
study.
The following major problems, among others, preclude trust in all the
results obtained.
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