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Forget About Abortion, Let's Focus on the Mental Health Effects of Pregnancy and Parenting

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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

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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

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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.

Follow Amanda Marcotte on Twitter, @amandamarcotte

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Roundup: Abortion Does Not Cause Mental Illness, McCain the Zealot, More Far Right Lies About Obama

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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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