Jul 12, 2021
Robin Atkins is back to discuss mental health, informed consent, abortion risks, the level of counseling in abortion facilities, and more.
Robin is a licensed mental health counselor, specializing in reproductive issues. She also has a philosophy degree. She spent four years doing home-based therapy with the Department of Children's Services. She's a pro-life advocate with an atypical perspective on some of the issues surrounding abortion.
Related Links:
Refuting “Abortion as Self-Defense” (video):
https://youtu.be/B2TakKSUawA
Refuting “Abortion as Self-Defense” (article):
https://bit.ly/32fHZWi
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation
on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present:
https://amzn.to/3e8Mjvw
American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists
or AAPLOG (for abortion risks):
https://aaplog.org/
You can learn more about the Turnaway Study here:
https://turnawaystudy.com
Listen to our first episode with Robin Atkins to hear her
thoughts on the Turnaway Study:
https://bit.ly/3uUUelI
Watch Josh Brahm's faulty pro-life arguments speech:
https://bit.ly/2VrhYSm
Contact Robin @TruthAgape on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/truthagape
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:34 Why tokophobia cases are increasing
4:13 How can people learn to advocate for themselves better with their doctors?
5:34 How informed consent relates to the abortion debate
9:38 Is it wrong for pro-life ultrasound laws to require internal ultrasound procedures?
12:04 Is it anti-free-speech to require doctors to say things required by a pro-life informed consent law?
16:40 How satisfied are you with the informed consent bills that pro-lifers pass?
19:04 How would you respond to the clinic worker who says they're just there to provide the service their client wants?
22:39 Should there be screenings before an abortion?
24:10 Assessing the level of counseling and/or care given to women in abortion facilities
28:16 Where should people go for the most accurate explanation of abortion risks?
29:42 What would it take for a clinic worker to become qualified to give anything called "counseling" to the client?
31:26 What are the accurate risk factors for abortion?
38:04 Is the abortion causing these symptoms or are women who were already more likely to experience these post-abortion symptoms having abortions?
41:38 On minors having abortions
47:25 On pro-choice women using women who are suffering as a shield, and how pro-lifers should respond to her
50:39 On abortion in the case of rape
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