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From: [e-mail] (James G Keegan Jr)
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Subject: Re: Because Petey-Honey asks so nicely
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Date: 26 Jan 93 20:53:32 GMT
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[e-mail] (Linda Birmingham) writes:
-> Mr. Nykios, in his constant pursuit of proving to t.a that he is
-> a prevaricating prat, apparently is trying to claim I plagiarized
-> some anti-choice propaganda.
->
-> The sources for the following statement
-> "90% of pregnant women will suffer post partum depression, 10% to
-> a degree they require hospitalization and/or medication"
->  <[e-mail]>
-> are:
->
-> Baby Blues, Janice Dineen, Toronto Star, March 23, 1991
->      "At least one mother out of every 10 suffers from such
->      anxiety and depression that she needs medical treatment.
->      Unfortunately, many don't know to seek that treatment.  And
->      even when they do, it sometimes takes a while to find the
->      right approach or the right medication"
->
-> The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Health Book
->   Collective, 1984
->      "In modern technological societies, almost every mother (as
->      many as 95 percent) experience periods (not just moments) of
->      fear and depression.  Almost a third suffer recurring
->      depression.  Up to two women out of each thousand experience
->      depression which is deep and disabling enough to require
->      hospitalization."
->
-> As the gentle reader can see I didn't plagiarise the above
-> source either since my faulty memory underestimated slightly.
->
-> Woman's Body, An owner's manual, Bantam Books, 1979
->      "Postpartum depression, or "baby blues," is rapidly being
->      acknowledged as a significant aftereffect of childbirth.
->      Though its intensity ranges from mere anxiety to severe
->      psychosis, most women experience depression of some kind
->      during the postnatal period.
->      It is not confined to first time mothers:  some women
->      experience depression after the birth of each of their
->      children."
->
-> Your baby & child, from birth to age five, Penelope Leach, 1977
-> reasons for postnatal depression:
->      "There are physical causes such as the hormonal upheaval
->      which takes place as your body returns to a non-pregnant
->      state and either establishes lactation or adapts to its
->      suppression.  Your body will not have settled down until at
->      least six weeks after the birth.
->      Practical causes are numerous too.  Among these are having
->      to put up with post-birth discomforts such as stitches, and
->      the necessity of caring for the new baby at night, when rest
->      is so badly needed".
->
-> I recognize that Nikios is incapable of accepting that birthing
-> babies is not a walk in the fields of happiness for all women,
-> even for those women who want children.  However I struggle to
-> imagine what motivates this sorry sot to accuse people, of
-> various crimes ranging from forgery to plagiarism.  Perhaps, he
-> realizes that the only way to gain any attention is by making
-> accusations or perhaps he receives some kind of perverse
-> pleasure out of repeatedly making himself out to be such a
-> fatuous ass.

oh my. the list of people PHoney has tried to
misrepresent and failed is growing, isn't it?