March 7, 2012
Surely a woman may feel a sense of loss and pain after getting an abortion, but does the procedure actually boost a woman’s chances of suffering from mental illness? In 2009, Priscilla Coleman, of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, published a study saying that, yes, there is a link between abortion and mental illness. Using ...
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January 11, 2011
The abortion rate was dropping in the USA, but then it stalled. Experts are saying this is because people just can’t afford more children so they opt to abort when in a better economy they might keep the child. The Guttmacher Institute released a report which showed that the rate of abortion in the USA was ...