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To address this knowledge gap, we investigated whether different measures of state-level legislation pertaining to access to reproductive care, including abortion, were associated with suicide rates of women from 1974 to 2016.
Nov 19, 2019 · We found 103 articles, 13 of which tested the association between abortion and suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, or self-harm. We searched the references of these articles and found one more study on suicidal ideation published since 2008. Three datasets were each analysed in two separate articles.
- Julia R Steinberg, Thomas M Laursen, Thomas M Laursen, Nancy E Adler, Christiane Gasse, Esben Agerbo...
- 2019
Download PDF. Outline. More. We read with interest the Article by Julia Steinberg and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry,1 in which the authors examined the risk of first suicide attempt before and after abortion, adjusting for age, calendar year, socioeconomic status, history of childbirth, mental health, parental mental health, and physical ...
- The Jewish Foundations: Kiddush Hashem Through Kiddush Hachayim
- The Christian Reception: “Be Holy!”
- Kant on Suicide and The Human Body as A Sanctuary
Leon Kass, the Jewish scholar and former chairman of the President’s Council of Bioethics, gave decisive hints when wondering—like his Christian and secular colleagues: “What is it that makes what kind of life sacred? […], the phrase ‘sanctity of life’ does not occur either in the Hebrew Bible or in the New Testament. Life as such is not said to be...
Since sanctity-of-life is widely accepted by Christian clinicians and lawyers as well as theologians, it has to be asked whether there is a Christian tradition of the concept that has kept its meaning in mind. There are clues of the concept’s Christian history up to its secularization in Kant’s Doctrine of Virtue. The most obvious Christian recepti...
Kant’s argumentation about suicide in his Lectures on Ethics is often regarded as a candidate for the modern bioethical use of the term sanctity-of-life in end-of-life debates (Zimmermann-Acklin 2002 p 161, Cholbi 2008). Although the Lectures on Ethics are student’s notes, they allow interesting insight into Kant’s way of teaching. As in his Religi...
These pivotal evidence-based recommendations and best practices recognise the needs of pregnant individuals across the abortion care pathway, calling for the removal of unnecessary policy barriers and providing clear guidance to health-care providers for the delivery of safe abortion care.
Oct 29, 2018 · Abortion providers argued that there was not yet enough proof that abortion was the “direct cause” of the statistically significant higher risks of mental illness, including suicide, following abortion.
Feb 1, 2017 · In this issue, two articles offer contextualized accounts of sex-selective abortion: Eklund and Purewal (2017, this issue) and Lee (2017, this issue). Read alongside each other, these accounts provide insights across national contexts – Great Britain, India, and China.
