The APA, AGW & Green Lifestyles, and Abortion... wow!

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Snippets from The Patriot newsletter
08-34 Digest
August 22, 2008


The American Psychological Association and...
AGW and "Going Green"
If there were ever any doubt that global-warming alarmists were much more preoccupied with a political agenda than with presenting both sides of the issue (remember Al Gore declaring that only warming fanatics should be given coverage on this topic?), according to coverage by USA Today, the APA is promising to “launch a national initiative specifically targeting behavior changes, including developing media messages that will help people reduce their carbon footprint...” Perhaps even more disturbing, “they want to... enlist congressional support to help fund the effort.”

“We know how to change behavior and attitudes. That is what we do,” APA president and Yale University psychologies Alan Kazdin boldly announced. Kazdin’s controversial statements were made in advance of the APA’s meeting in Boston last week, where its 148,000 members gathered to hear evidence of studies that explored how to manipulate people into going green.

One such study found that “news stories that provided a balanced view of climate change reduced people’s beliefs that humans are at fault and also reduced the number of people who thought climate change would be bad.” We are shocked, shocked! However, “for Republicans and those who had little trust in scientists, more knowledge did not mean there was more concern [about global warming],” said psychologist Jon Krosnick, the study’s author. So, Republicans don’t trust scientists, but after reading about Kazdin’s intentions to take over our brains, can you blame them?


The American Psychological Association and...
Abortion
A recent study released by the American Psychology Association (APA) claims that women who have abortions are no more likely to have psychological problems than those who give birth. A coalition of pro-life advocates, however, is decrying the report as politically biased and one sided.

Brenda Mayor, lead psychologist on the APA taskforce and a known pro-abortion advocate, stated “The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion or deliver the pregnancy.”

On the contrary, data neglected by the study shows otherwise. In fact, the report specifically negates the feelings of women who suffer after abortion, treating their anxiety and depression as a coincidence rather than a direct correlation. “There is no evidence,” the report states, “sufficient to support the claim that an observed association between abortion history and mental health was caused by the abortion per se, as opposed to other factors.”

Women are fighting back, telling their stories and joining the movement to make abortion illegal. One of these women is Aveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King has spoken of her pain and anguish after suffering a miscarriage caused by two previous abortions. “The (APA) wants to say we are the exception to the rule,” King said, “but for every one woman they can find that says they weren’t harmed by abortion... they could find 10 women who were.” For more such stories, consider reading the book Empty Arms.

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