msnbc.msn.com - 12/4/2008
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No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, U.S. researchers said.
news.yahoo.com - 12/4/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON (Reuters) No high-quality study done to date
can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress,...
or a "post-abortion syndrome ," and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on ...
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Abortion not seen linked with depression - Yahoo! News
perrspectives.com - 12/5/2008
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perrspectives.com —
In one of the most condescending and baseless
Supreme Court opinions in recent memory, Justice Anthony Kennedy...
in April 2007 upheld a federal late term abortion ban on the grounds that "some women come to regret their choice." Now 18...
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New Study Refutes Justice Kennedy on Post-Abortion Syndrome
longwarjournal.org - 11/30/2008
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Quick Hit: No link found between abortion and depression.
Feministing —
via MSNBC.
The researchers reviewed all English-language, peer-reviewed publications between 1989 and 2008 that studied relationships between abortion and long-term mental health. They analyzed those that included valid mental health measures and factored in pre-existing mental health status and potentially confusing factors.
"The best quality studies indicate no significant differences in long-term mental health between women in the United States who choose to terminate a pregnancy and those who do not," they wrote. ...
Abortion Still Not Linked to Depression
Suburban Guerrilla —
But there’s never going to be enough evidence for the people who want to believe it:
WASHINGTON - No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, or a “post-abortion syndrome,” and efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reviewed 21 studies involving more than 150,000 women and found the high-quality studies showed no significant differences in long-term mental ...
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