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Report: Abortion does not lead to long-term depression.
Think Progress — ... , a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has shown that there is no scientific support to claims that “an abortion causes psychological distress, or a ‘post-abortion syndrome.’” The team reviewed 21 studies involving more than 150,000 women and found that there is “no significant differences in long-term mental health between women who choose to abort a pregnancy and others”: ...

Abortion Not Linked With Depression
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... So says a comprehensive and exhaustive study of the matter done by actual scientists rather than conservative anti-abortion advocates. ...

Of course when were the fetophile anti-sex crowd concerned with, uh, reality?
Brilliant at Breakfast — So much for the notion that women have to be protected from the lifelong psychological damage caused by abortion: 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 health between ...

Emails from Betty Boondoggle Make Me Laugh
Shakesville — ... There's no study proving a link between abortion and depression. "Efforts to show it does occur appear to be politically motivated, U.S. researchers said on Thursday." Shocker! I know! ...