{"id":956,"date":"2009-02-03T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=956"},"modified":"2009-02-02T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T19:26:32","slug":"obama-nominee-childbirth-worse-than-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominee: Childbirth Worse Than Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/baraobam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama has come under fire              for pro-abortion nominations for various positions and now he is drawing              heat for nominating a pro-abortion Deputy Attorney General. His nominee              David Ogden, is drawing criticism for authoring a Supreme Court brief              dismissing negative effects from an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>During              the campaign, Obama came under heavy criticism for a comment saying              he did not want his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/nat3827.html\" target=\"_blank\">daughters              punished<\/a> with a pregnancy &#8212; intimating that abortion would be              the preferred course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Now,              Obama has appointed a top Justice Department official who appears              to feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Millions              of women deal with a multitude of problems following an abortion,              ranging from medical issues to mental health consequences.<\/p>\n<p>But,              in legal papers filed during the consideration of a 1992 Supreme Court              case, Ogen claimed women don&#8217;t deal with negative experiences resulting              from an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Ogden              wrote and filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Psychological              Association for the Supreme Court&#8217;s seminal decision in Casey v. Planned              Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>In              it, Ogden argued, &#8220;Abortion rarely causes or exacerbates psychological              or emotional problems. When women do experience regret, depression,              or guilt, such feelings are mild and diminish rapidly without adversely              affecting general functioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The              few women who do experience negative psychological responses after              abortion appear to be those with preexisting emotional problems,&#8221;              Ogden claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In              sum, it is grossly misleading to tell a woman that abortion imposes              possible detrimental psychological effects when the risks are negligible              in most cases,&#8221; Ogden claimed.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/nat4804.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has come under fire for pro-abortion nominations for various positions and now he is drawing heat for nominating a pro-abortion Deputy Attorney General. His nominee David Ogden, is drawing criticism for authoring a Supreme Court brief dismissing negative effects from an abortion. During the campaign, Obama came under heavy criticism for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Nominee: Childbirth Worse Than Abortion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,90,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-news","category-current-events","category-humanism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}