Nada Stotland, a psychiatrist and past president of the American Psychiatric Association, has written extensively about the mental health effects of abortion denial. “The reasons women decide to abort are all mental health factors,” she wrote in a journal article. “These include poverty, lack of social supports, domestic violence, rape, incest, heavy ongoing responsibilities, lack of education, and preexisting mental illness.”
Author: Laura Fraser, MindSite News
Laura Fraser is the author of four books of non-fiction and has been an award-winning journalist for over 30 years, specializing in reproductive health, medicine, climate change, travel and food.