Nada Stotland

Abortion and Mental Health Deniers’ Attack and Distract Strategy

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 […]

JAMA GYMNASTICS: Jumping Through Hoops to Prove Abortion is Safe

By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. The American Medical Association has long supported legal abortion. Indeed, since 1972, the AMA’s amicus briefs to the Supreme Court have generously provided Justice Harry Blackmun and his cohorts with a “medical” justification for abortion on demand. The crux of this “medical” justification is the claim that abortion is “safe” […]

Give and Take

Notes on the Public and Personal Exchange of Views on the Psychological Effects of Abortion Between Nada Stotland and David Reardon In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a commentary by psychiatrist Nada Stotland, entitled “The Myth of Abortion Trauma Syndrome.” In her commentary Stotland, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and […]

Nada Stotland Admits Psychological Impact of Abortion

Stotland Moves by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. In 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a commentary by psychiatrist Nada Stotland entitled “The Myth of Abortion Trauma Syndrome.” In her commentary Stotland emphatically insisted that post-abortion trauma “does not exist.” While her arguments for this absolutist position were strained and inconsistent with the […]

JAMA Gymnastics: Jumping through hoops to prove abortion is safe

by David C. Reardon The American Medical Association has long supported legal abortion. Indeed, since 1972, the AMA’s amicus briefs to the Supreme Court have generously provided Justice Harry Blackmun and his cohorts with a “medical” justification for abortion on demand. The crux of this “medical” justification is the claim that abortion is “safe” – […]

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