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Forget About Abortion, Let's Focus on the Mental Health Effects of Pregnancy and Parenting
by Amie Newman
February 1, 2011 - 8:41pm (Print)
Enough with the studies on the adverse effects of abortion on mental health. If you're really interested in helping women, study the mental health effects of pregnancy and parenthood.
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Post-Abortion Syndrome: Anti-Choice "Researchers" Seek to Mislead and Intimidate Women
by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check
July 7, 2009 - 10:41am (Print)
The “scientists” who pursue the myth of post-abortion syndrome are scientists of the most dangerous kind: those who use faulty, manipulated research as a means to a political end.
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Good Girls and Hot Messes: Abortion Doesn't Hurt Women
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
August 21, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
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: Abortion Does Not Cause Mental Illness, McCain the Zealot, More Far Right Lies About Obama
by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check
August 13, 2008 - 10:25am (Print)
American Psychologocal Association finds that abortion does not lead to mental illness; Far right lies about Obama's record on abortion continue; Despite voter confusion McCain is adamantly anti-choice; Mad cow rules prevent foreign sperm from being imported for IVF.
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