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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 ...
- Hirofumi Hirakawa, Nobuyoshi Ishii
- 2020
Sep 1, 2018 · Psychiatry has been misused by those who have opposed abortion and those who consider abortion a woman’s right. In the absence of psychiatric research data, both obtaining an abortion and not obtaining an abortion have been argued to cause psychiatric harm, up to and including suicide.
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.
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.
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.
