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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.
Jun 18, 2018 · Suicide has absolutely no relationship in the world to abortion; we are not dealing with rational choices, but steep depression and sometimes mental illness.
May 24, 2018 · By following women for 5 years, we are able to assess whether abortion is followed by an increase in suicidal ideation and whether the suicidal ideation trajectories of women who obtained an abortion differ from those of women denied an abortion.
Jun 13, 2019 · This report sets out and comments on abortion statistics in England and Wales for 2018. The statistics are obtained from the abortion notification forms returned to the chief medical officers...
May 14, 2018 · Some recent anti-abortion campaigners have been trying to argue that abortion harms the mother—that she always regrets her decision. What does psychological research have to say on this...
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.
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.
