Must Reading for Pro-Lifers.(Women's Health After Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence)

Women?s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence is a brand new book published by the non-profit deVeber Institute for Social Research. Unfamiliar to Americans, this Canadian ?think tank? has been open for business since 1982. The institute specializes in first-rate analyses of a number of topics, including euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Twenty-nine years and counting into the reign of Roe v. Wade--is there anything new that can be added/debated? Well, yes - - actually, lots and lots.

And I don?t just mean the newer enemy objects on the radar screen--such as human cloning, and embryonic stem cell research that would require the destruction of human embryos. There is also the multi-pronged offensive taking place on friendlier terrain.

Most of this reinvigorated debate gets its impetus from the fact that the unborn passenger, once shrouded in darkness, is now increasingly visible. This greater recognition is, in turn, reflected in, for example, the warm reception ?Unborn Victims of Violence? laws are receiving, bills which recognize there are two victims when a pregnant woman is assaulted and her child injured or killed.

But there is another dimension to the ever-complicated abortion debate. Issues which have been buried for years and years are starting to surface (or, in some instances, resurface). This welcome change just takes time, patience, and the willingness to look at many studies whose primary emphasis often is not abortion.

The thrust of Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy?s and Ian Gentles?s Women?s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence is a truth that pro-lifers know both intuitively and by personal experience: ?safe, legal abortion? is not only lethal to the unborn child but the killing also exacts a toll on women far more serious than the public is led to believe. But is there evidence to back up this gut feeling?

Indeed. This excellent book mines a deep vein of research--over 500 articles that have appeared in medical and other journals, for the most part during the past 20 years--to demonstrate that abortion has serious and long-term consequences for women. The problem of getting this information gathered and communicated to the public is two-fold.