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Comprehensive Review Finds No Link Between Abortion, Mental Trauma

08.12.2008   An analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that no high-quality study to date has demonstrated a link between abortion and psychological distress and that attempts to show such a correlation appear to be politically motivated, Reuters reports. For the new study, which will be published in the journal Contraception, researchers reviewed all English-language, peer-reviewed publications between 1989 and 2008 that examined the relationship between abortion and long-term mental health. They identified 21 high-quality studies involving more than 150,000 women that included valid mental health measures and took into account pre-existing mental health status and "potentially confusing factors," according to Reuters.