Canadian Researcher Blasts Palin Critic Who Said Choice of Life For Son Wrong

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an open letter to Nicholas Provenzo from Canadian researcher Brent Rooney.  Provenzo criticized Sarah Palin's decision not to abort her son, Trig, a child with Down Syndrome, in an article titled:  Palin's Down syndrome child and the right to abortion. 

To: Nicholas Provenzo
From: Brent Rooney, MSc

Subject:  More Suicides by Women Okay by Nicholas Provenzo

     In less than 20 minutes a pregnant woman can almost double her risk of

being a homicide victim in the next 8 years and multiply her risk of suicide

by 2 1/2 in the following 8 years. [Reardon, 1]  Thus, anyone suggesting that

induced abortion is a smart and moral option must be 'smoking something'.

                              

     You, Nicholas Provenzo, pretend to be an advocate of Ayn Rand's

philosophy of self-interest and unfettered capitalism.  Nicholas Provenzo

writes about Sarah Palin and her son Trig (who has Down syndrome) as follows:

 

     "Because a person afflicted with Down syndrome is only capable of being

      marginally productive (if at all) and requires constant care and supervision,

      unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for a lifetime of assistance that

      their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child's

      life upon others." [Provenzo, 2]

 

You, Mr. Nicholas Provenzo, founder of the Center for the Advancement of

Capitalism, state in your 16 September 2008 essay, "it is crucial to reaffirm the

morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome..."  Thus, you believe 

it is moral for parents to abort 'useless eaters'; 'useless eaters' is NOT Provenzo's

term, but a term used by the Nazi's in the 1930s to persuade the public that badly

handicapped people were worthless and approximately 70,000 of these innocent 

handicapped people were murdered by the Nazis. The Nazis also used the term

'life unworthy of life'. [Glass, 3]

 

     Ayn Rand was a brilliant novelist and philosopher who advocated self-interest,

rationality and capitalism (which gets 4+ cheers from Brent Rooney).  Rand also

advised her 'objectivist' followers to prepare themselves very well before they

entered the public arena.  Sadly, Nicholas Provenzo, has failed to brief himself on

the medical disaster that is induced abortion. A 2002 study of low income

California women in the Southern Medical Journal reported that women with an IA

(Induced Abortion) had 2 1/2 times the suicide rate in the 8 years after as women

who delivered. [Reardon, 1]  In the 2 years after 'pregnancy end' women who had

an IA had twice the total risk of dying as women who delivered and in the 8

years after the women with IAs had 60% higher total risk of dying as women who

delivered. [Reardon, 1]  Can Mr. Provenzo cite just one study following women

for at least one year 'after' showing that women with induced abortions have a

lower total death risk (medical jargon: all-cause mortality) than women who

delivered?

 

     Perhaps Nicholas thinks that 2002 study of California women 'is just

one study' and that it has not been validated by any other study.  In 1997 Finnish

researchers led by Dr. Mika Gissler reported that Finnish women who ended

their pregnancy via induced abortion had 3.5 times the total death risk in the

one year 'after' as women who delivered. [Gissler, 5]  In the one year 'after'

women with an induced abortion had 6.5 times the risk of suicide and 14 times

the risk of being a murder victim as women who delivered. [Gissler, 5]

 

     Those who want to know the wide range of physical and mental damages

inflicted by induced abortion can read the online version of Women's Health

after Abortion (URL: http://deveber.org/text/whaa-chapters.html ).

[Ring-Cassidy, 5]

 

     Lastly, why would you, Nicholas  Provenzo, advocate that women undergo

experimental and unproven surgery?  The most common induced abortion procedure

is vacuum aspiration (aka 'suction') abortion.  'Suction' abortion has zero published

animal studies to support its safety. [Rooney, 6]  Dr. Sharon Camp of the Alan

Guttmacher Institute admitted in an email to Brent Rooney (MSc) on 16 January

2008 that AGI could not cite any such animal study for vacuum aspiration abortion.

Dr. Sharon Camp's email address is:  scamp@guttmacher.org . As you may know,

Nicholas Provenzo, to not first validate a new surgery or new drug on animals

BEFORE human trials commence violates rule 3 of the 1974 Nuremberg Code.

[Nuremberg Code, 7]

 

     [I am a medical researcher with a special focus on premature birth risk

factors.]

 

Objectively, Medically Informed, and Cordially Yours,

Brent Rooney (MSc)

Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition

Vancouver, Canada

web:  http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf

 

References 

 

1 Reardon DC, Ney PG, Scheuren F, Cougle J, Coleman PK, et al.   Deaths

   associated with pregnancy outcome: A record linkage study of low income

   women.  Southern Med J  2002;95(8):834-841  [ Abstract URL:

   http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13850014 ]

 

2 Provenzo N.  Palin's Down syndrome child and the right to abortion

http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2008/09/palins-down-syndrome-child-and-right-to.htm

 

3 Glass JM. [Book:] Life unworthy of life: racial phobias and mass murder in

   Hitler's Germany.  New York, Basic Books 1997

 

4 Gissler M, Kauppila R, Merilainen J, Toukomoa H, Hemminki E.  Pregnancy-

   associated deaths in Finland 1987-1994: definition problems and benefits of

   record linkage.  ACTA Obstetrica et Gynecologica Scandinavica  1997;

   76(7):651-675  [ Abstract URL:

   http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a791454723~db=all ]

 

5 Ring-Cassidy E, Gentles I. Women's Health after Abortion.  Toronto, deVeber

   http://deveber.org/text/whaa-chapters.html  

 

6 Rooney B, Johnston WR. Mored adverse effects of abortion.  J Am Phys Surg

   2007;12(4):97-98 [ URL: http://www.jpands.org/vol12no4/correspondence.pdf ]

 

7 Nuremberg Code  http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html 

   [accessed on 13 March 2008]

 

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Comments

[KansasGirl]

Who is he a capitalist for, Planned Parenthood? Oh I'm mistaken, Planned Parenthood is sponsored by America taxpayers. These monsters need defeated, once and for all.