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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.
When compared with women without an abortion history, women with a prior abortion experienced a 61% increased risk of mood disorders. Abortion was further linked with a 61% increased risk of social phobia, and increased the risk of suicide ideation by 59%.
- Priscilla K. Coleman
- 2011
Nov 19, 2019 · First, we used survival analysis to examine the risk of first-time suicide attempts or self-harm associated with a first abortion compared with no abortion, in the complete study cohort. Follow-up started on the woman's 18th birthday or Jan 1, 2000, whichever came last.
- Julia R Steinberg, Thomas M Laursen, Thomas M Laursen, Nancy E Adler, Christiane Gasse, Esben Agerbo...
- 2019
Jan 26, 2023 · A study published in December showed a connection between restrictive abortion laws and increased suicides by women of reproductive age in the U.S. The research, conducted by University of Pennsylvania scientists, examined data between 1974 and 2016 and so didn’t consider changes since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v.
- Harvardgazette
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.
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.
Jan 30, 2023 · In this Article, I explore how nearly continuous public rhetorical challenges to abortion in the political realm first led the public and the courts to turn away from a particular abortion procedure (intact dilation and extraction, also known as partial-birth abortion) which political agitators labeled as “barbaric” and then to view ...
