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FDA Failed to Protect Women From Unwanted and Dangerous Abortions: Elliot Institute Amicus Brief

Posted in Articles, Comments in the News, Mental Health Effects, News

2/29/2024 The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone, negligently exposed millions of women to unwanted, unsafe, and unnecessary abortions, according to an amicus brief filed by the Elliot Institute, Rachel’s Vineyard, and Entering Canaan Ministry. The brief details the Clinton administration’s political goals and social engineering agenda when the president […]

Most Abortion Choices Violate Women’s Own Preferences, New Study Examines Harms When Abortion is Not Freely Chosen

Posted in Abortion complications, Articles, Coerced Abortions, Mental Health Effects, Research

Washington, DC (May 11, 2023) — The assumption that abortions only occur when women freely want them has been overturned by a new study interviewing a national sample of 1000 women 41 to 45 years of age. Of women with a history of abortion, only 33% described their abortions as a “wanted and consistent with my values […]

Only a Minority of Abortions Are for Unwanted Pregnancies, New Study

Posted in Coerced Abortions, Commentary, Mental Health Effects, Research

by David C. Reardon April 15, 2021. A major abortion advocacy group has recently found that only 42% of aborting women described their pregnancies as unwanted.1 Unexpectedly, 38% described their pregnancies as wanted or wanted but mistimed. The remaining 19% were unsure how to describe the wantedness of their pregnancies, indicating ambivalence or at least some attachment to […]

Abortion Contributes to Subsequent Cases of Postpartum Depression, New Study

Posted in Mental Health Effects, Research

Induced abortion or miscarriage of a first pregnancy increases the risk of postpartum mental health problems by 10 to 35 percent, according to a new study of of over 1.9 million women. The risk of postpartum psychiatric care requiring hospitalization is increased by 83 percent.

Making Abortion Rare, the Chief Justice Roberts Way

Posted in Abortion & Mental Health Controversy, Medical Ethics, Mental Health Effects, Model Legislation, Politics, Strategy

Aug. 13, 2020 In 2016, Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold a Texas law requiring abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges. But in 2020, he voted to reject an identical statute in Louisiana. Why? Because his 2016 opinion was overruled by the majority of the Supreme Court. Even though he still believes the majority erred […]

Teen Abortion Risks: A Medical Fact Sheet

Posted in Abortion risks, Mental Health Effects, Reproductive Complications, Teens

Teens face a higher risk of suffering abortion related complications. This is true of both physical and emotional risks, including immediate, short-term and long-term complications. Below is a listing of the findings of relevant medical studies for adolescents: Teens are 6 times more likely to attempt suicide if they have had an abortion in the last […]

Tales From an Insider: How The APA Denied Abortion’s Mental Health Risks

Posted in Abortion & Mental Health Controversy, American Psychological Association

by Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D, August 15, 2008 Rachel MaNcair is the President of Division 48, Peace Psychology, of the American Psychological Association, and Director of Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, research arm of Consistent Life. Reprinted with permission. We have known for a long time that the word “choice” in the abortion debate doesn’t mean […]

Anticipating Abortion Risks to Mental Health

Posted in Abortion & Mental Health Controversy, Abortion risks, Articles, Mental Health Effects

The decision to have an abortion can be difficult. The potential risks and benefits of abortion should be carefully evaluated. These risks will vary widely between different people and in different circumstances. Unfortunately, as many as 62% of women thinking about abortion feel pressured by other people to undergo an abortion regardless of its risks. […]

Abortion Contributes to Mental Health Problems: Both Sides Agree According to a Comprehensive Medical Review

Posted in Abortion complications, Abortion risks, American Psychological Association, Articles, Featured, Mental Health Effects, News, Research, Suicide

Experts on both sides of the abortion debate agree that abortion contributes to mental health problems in some women. But they disagree whether or not abortion is ever the sole cause of mental illness.

The Turnaway Study Deceives Public About Abortion Risks

Posted in Turnaway Study

Springfield, IL (July 27, 2018) — The claim that 95 percent of women have no regrets or mental illness after their abortions is based on the Turnaway Study’s intentionally inaccurate analysis and an unrepresentative sample of women, according to a new review published in the Linacre Quarterly medical journal. The review examines a series of studies […]

New Study Sheds Light on Experiences, Risk Factors of Women Who Struggle After Abortion

Posted in American Psychological Association, Articles, Coerced Abortions, News, Research

1/22/18 Pressure to Abort, Attachment to Pregnancy and Difficulty Making the Decision Widespread Among Women Who Suffer After Abortion A newly-published survey of women who sought help from a crisis pregnancy center after abortion sheds light on the experiences of women who suffer after abortion. Published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JP&S), […]

No Medical Evidence Finds Abortion Can Save a Mother’s Life

Posted in American Psychological Association, Articles, Mortality, Politics, Research

11/4/16 David C. Reardon In the most recent presidential debate, Hillary Clinton claimed late-term abortions are sometimes necessary to save women’s lives. That’s great rhetoric, but it is not supported by even a single medical study. Before examining the “abortion to save women’s lives” question, it is first important to note that only about 1.2 […]

Study Finds Increased Risk of Mental Health Disorders After Abortion

Posted in Abortion complications, Abortion risks, Mental Health Effects, Research

9/16/16 Women who have abortions face a higher risk of mental health disorders according to recent study of young women in the United States. The study, published by Dr. D Paul Sullins of Catholic University of America, used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. The study followed more than 8,000 […]

“They Have No Interest in the Safety of Women”

Posted in American Psychological Association, Articles, Featured, Nancy Russo, Opinion

9/11/15 From Leon H. Wolf at RedState.com: None of the abortion advocates who constantly and perpetually moan about these regulations have ever offered any convincing reason why abortion as a surgical procedure should be treated differently on the merits from any other outpatient surgery such that these regulations are fair as applied to ortho clinics […]

Expert: Results of Study Claiming No Abortion Regrets Are Meaningless

Posted in Turnaway Study

7/21/15 Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.D. Note: Last week we reported on a deeply flawed study using the “Turnaway Study” that is being used to claim that most women have no regrets after an abortion. Dr. Priscilla Coleman, of Bowling Green State University and director of WECARE, has also published her own criticism which is reprinted […]

Study Claiming Women Don’t Regret Abortions Deeply Flawed and Deceptive

Posted in Turnaway Study

7/15/2015 “This Study Should End The Debate About Whether Women Regret Having Abortions,” reads the headline from ThinkProgress. The study, published in the journal PLoS One, claims that 95 percent of women having abortions do not have regrets afterward. From the study: Women experienced decreasing emotional intensity over time, and the overwhelming majority of women […]

Abortion vs. Other Pregnancy Losses

Posted in Priscilla Coleman

From the archives: A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be “particularly damaging to the parenting process.” The article, published in Current Women’s Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman […]

Abortion History Linked to Bipolar Disorders — And the Ongoing Coverup

Posted in Brenda Major

10/5/2015 | by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Women with a history of abortion are three times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorders, according to a new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The researchers’ findings were based on a comparison of reproductive histories of women treated for bipolar disorders with a control […]

Later Abortions Linked to Psychological Problems, More Ambivalence

Posted in Articles, News, Priscilla Coleman

This week experts testified before a Congressional subcommittee on a bill that would ban abortions nationwide past 20 weeks. A 2010 study of women who had abortions found that women undergoing later abortions face increased psychological risks, are more likely to be ambivalent about having an abortion and are more likely to need counseling and […]

Dr. Coleman Responds to Abortion Research Controversy

Posted in Priscilla Coleman

By Dr. Priscilla Coleman Over the past few days there has been a great deal of press concerning a peer-reviewed article I published in 2009 with co-authors Dr. Catherine Coyle, Dr. Vincent Rue, and Dr. Martha Shuping in the Journal of Psychiatric Research. The analyses in this paper employed data from the National Comorbidity Survey […]

Wantedness and Coercion

Posted in American Psychological Association, Articles, Coerced Abortions

Key Factors in Understanding Women’s Mental Health After Abortion Martha Shuping, M.D. Dr. Shuping presented this article at a United Nations workshop in March 2011, and at the June 2011 meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Research on Values and Social Change. In 1973, as a 19-year-old undergraduate student, I worked as a volunteer at […]

Abortion and Mental Health Deniers’ Attack and Distract Strategy

Posted in American Psychological Association, Nada Stotland, Nancy Russo, Priscilla Coleman

Ad Hominem Attacks, Guilt by Association, Shifting Standards, Avoiding Simple Truths A Commentary by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The abortion and mental health controversy shifted into high gear following the recent publication in The British Journal of Psychiatry of a meta-analysis review that combined results of 22 studies and reported that women who have abortions are 81 […]

Abortion and Mental Health Controversy Reignited by New Study

Posted in American Psychological Association, Brenda Major

A systematic literature review published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that 10% of mental health problems among women are related to a history of abortion. The review calls into question the previous reassurances by the American Psychological Association.