You say "regret" and I say "relief": a need to break the polemic about abortion

Contraception

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-89

  Weitz, Tracy A ^a   Moore, Kirsten ^b   Gordon, Rivka ^c   Adler, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Repro Health Technologies Project   (United States)

^c Association of Reproductive Health Professionals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 47949128692     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.04.116     Document Type: Editorial

References (22)

1. Gonzales V. Carhart 2007, 127 S.CT. 1610.
2. Adler N., David H.P., Major B.N., Roth S.H., Russo N.F., and Wyatt G.E. Psychological responses after abortion. Science 248 (1990) 41-44
3. Adler N.E., David H.P., Major B.N., Roth S.H., Russo N.F., and Wyatt G.E. Psychological factors in abortion. A review. Am Psychol 47 (1992) 1194-1204
4. Major B., et al. Psychological responses of women after first-trimester abortion. Arch Gen Psychiatry 57 (2000) 777-784
5. Zabin L.S., Hirsch M.B., and Emerson M.R. When urban adolescents choose abortion: effects on education, psychological status and subsequent pregnancy. Fam Plann Perspect 21 (1989) 248-255
6. Gilchrist C., Hannaford P.C., Frankk P., and Kay C.R. Termination of pregnancy and psychiatric morbidity. Br J Psychiatry 167 (1995) 243-248
7. Cozzarelli C. Personality and self-efficacy as predictors of coping with abortion. J Pers Soc Psychol 65 (1993) 1224-1236
8. Coleman P.K., Reardon D.C., Rue V.M., and Cougle J. A history of induced abortion in relation to substance use during subsequent pregnancies carried to term. Am J Obstet Gynecol 187 (2002) 1673-1678
9. Reardon D.C., Cougle J.R., Rue V.M., Shuping M.W., Coleman P.K., and Ney P.G. Psychiatric admissions of low-income women following abortion and childbirth. Can Med Assoc J 168 (2003) 1253-1256
10. Fergusson D.M., Horwood L.J., and Ridder E.M. Abortion in young women and subsequent mental health. J Child Psychol Psychiatry Allied Discipl 47 (2006) 16-24
11. Cougle J.R., Reardon D.C., and Coleman P.K. Generalized anxiety following unintended pregnancies resolved through childbirth and abortion: a cohort study of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. J Anxiety Dis 19 (2005) 137-142
12. Coleman P.K., Reardon D.C., Rue V.M., and Cougle J. State-funded abortions versus deliveries: a comparison of outpatient mental health claims over 4 years. Am J Orthopsychiatr 72 (2002) 141-152
13. Reardon D.C., Ney P.G., Scheuren F., Cougle J., Coleman P.K., and Strahan T.W. Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women. South Med J 95 (2002) 834-841
14. Cougle J.R., Reardon D.C., and Coleman P.K. Depression associated with abortion and childbirth: a long-term analysis of the NLSY cohort. Med Sci Monit 9 (2003) CR105-CR112
15. Reardon D.C., and Cougle J.R. Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study. Br Med J 324 (2002) 151-152
16. Reardon D.C., and Ney P.G. Abortion and subsequent substance abuse. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 26 (2000) 61-75
17. Gissler M., Hemminki E., and Lonnqvist J. Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987-94: register linkage study. Br Med J 313 (1996) 1431-1434
18. Coleman P.K. Resolution of unwanted pregnancy during adolescence through abortion versus childbirth: Individual and family predictors and psychological consequences. J Youth Adolesc 35 (2006) 903-911
19. Major B. Psychological implications of abortion-highly charged and rife with misleading research. Can Med Assoc J 168 (2003) 1257-1258
20. Schmiege S., and Russo N.F. Depression and unwanted first pregnancy: longitudinal cohort study. Br Med J 331 (2005) 1303
21. Gallup Poll News Service. Gallup's Pulse of Democracy: abortion. [cited 2007 April 1]. Available from: (2007). http://www.galluppoll.com/content/default.aspx?ci=1576&pg=1&VERS ION=p
22. Stotland N.L. Psychosocial aspects of induced abortion. Clin Obstet Gynecol 40 (1997) 673-686