12/13/11: New Study on Abortion Effects Dismissed

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National Right to Life and other pro-life groups are dismissing a new study claiming “abortion is not associated with an increase in mental health problems.” The British Academy of Medical Royal Colleges commissioned the study.

Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, a British pro-life organization, said the study’s “assertions are predictable.” He listed a lengthy series of key studies ignored by the review that included “empirical findings of the psychological harms of abortion.”

Ozimic pointed out that the key to the study’s review was to attribute any subsequent mental health problems after an abortion to mental health difficulties a woman had prior to the abortion. He called that incomplete.