The Truth About Women and Abortion -- Lasting Trauma
Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 2:17 am ET

Guilt, distress, and mental distress among women who have experienced an abortion are far more common and long-lasting than abortion rights proponents have claimed. Researchers with the Norwegian Council for Mental Health and the University of Oslo evaluated 40 women who had experienced miscarriage and 80 women who had experienced an abortion. The women were then followed by the researchers for five years.

According to a report in The Washington Times: Out of the entire group of women, only a dozen -- one who had miscarried, the rest who had aborted -- did not describe the experience of losing a baby as difficult. The researchers also reported that seven women who had abortions dropped out of the study all together "because it was too difficult for them to answer questions about the pregnancy termination." Although the women who had miscarried experienced more immediate grief, those feelings abated and began to resolve over time -- a pattern "expected after a traumatic and sad life event," the study stated. the rest-Albert Mohler


The Rule of Law and the Role of Judges—Why the Nomination of Samuel Alito Matters
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Albert Mohler
"One of the indispensable matters of Western Civilization is the rule of law. That rule is central to democratic government, a vigorous economy, and individual liberty." With those words, Judge Robert H. Bork affirms the rule of law--and points to the important role played by judges. The rule of law, he argues, "requires that the law be understood to have force and moral weight of its own, independent of the political and cultural struggles of the moment." That is another way of saying that the rule of law, when it is observed, guarantees the supremacy of process in political affairs; self-government, stability, and safety depend on that supremacy. The rest