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The authors concluded that women who had abortions had a higher risk of non-fatal suicide attempts compared with women who did not have an abortion. Furthermore, they also concluded that heightened suicide attempts are not caused by abortion, but by differences in other risk factors related to suicide attempts.
- Hirofumi Hirakawa, Nobuyoshi Ishii
- 2020
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.
- David C Reardon
- 2018
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
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.
Abortion, the voluntary termination of a pregnancy, has long been a subject of controversy. Ideological and legal debates on this issue reflect different views about when human life begins and the rights and autonomy of women versus the rights of an embryo or fetus.
The most rigorous studies indicated that within the United States, the relative risk of mental health problems among adult women who have a single, legal, first-trimester abortion of an unwanted pregnancy is no greater than the risk among women who deliver an unwanted pregnancy.
