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One of the world’s leading abortion scholars, David A. Grimes, M.D. has studied, provided, and taught abortions for over four decades. Former Chief of the Abortion Surveillance Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Grimes helped to chronicle the public health benefits of legal abortion in the U.S. in the early 1970’s, making several discoveries that improved its safety. Working with the CDC and the World Health Organization, he has conducted abortion research in the U.S. and overseas.
Dr. Grimes has published more than 130 articles on abortion in peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Annals of Internal Medicine, and The British Medical Journal. He was an editor of the first two editions of the National Abortion Federation textbook on abortion and has been appeared in the Los Angeles Times as well as on the Donohue Show, Montel Williams, Sally Jesse Rafael, Nightline, and Good Morning America.
Dr. Grimes has received numerous awards for his contributions to women’s health, including a Commendation Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service, The Christopher Tietze Award from the National Abortion Federation, and the Alan Guttmacher Award from the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1997, was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in the U.K.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 15, 2015 Abortion and Mental Illness: A Phantom Epidemic
May is Mental Health Month in the U.S.The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that about 44 million persons in the U.S. have some mental illness. According to abortion opponents that figure should be vastly higher. Indeed, their junk science suggests that America should be grappling with a with a staggering epidemic of depression and suicide stemming from abortions. The good news is that this epidemic is illusory.