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Good Girls and Hot Messes: Abortion Doesn't Hurt Women

Amanda Marcotte on August 21, 2008 - 8:00am
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The American Psychological Association report finding no increased risk of mental health problems post-abortion should put the fiction that women can't be trusted to make healthy decisions for themselves to rest.

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Roundup: Mental Health and the Abortion Debate, South Dakota's Attempt to Ban Abortion

Brady Swenson on August 12, 2008 - 11:49am
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"Protecting" the mental health of women is the latest front in the abortion debate, The state of South Dakota's second abortion ban attempt, The Oregonian responds to Secretary Leavitt, New England Journal of Medicine reviews PEPFAR five years after inception.

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The Truth About Abortion and Mental Health

Marcy Bloom on November 15, 2007 - 8:58am
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The right to abortion and access to safe abortion care has been extraordinarily politicized in the US (and elsewhere) for decades now and women’s physical and psychological needs have been caught in the cross-fire. A new book places those needs front and center.


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