{"id":295050,"date":"2023-07-20T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295050"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:12:47","slug":"study-contradicts-abortion-industry-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-contradicts-abortion-industry-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New study contradicts abortion industry’s claims about mental health and abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new peer-reviewed <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> written by scholars from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) suggests that women whose first pregnancy ends in abortion have worse mental health outcomes than those whose first pregnancy ends in birth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study focused on continuously eligible Medicaid beneficiaries who were age 16 in 1999 and followed their mental health claims histories through 2015. There were a total of 1,331 women whose first pregnancies ended in abortion, whereas there were 3,517 women whose first pregnancies ended in birth. By studying women\u2019s mental health services utilization rates, the methodological limitations of relying upon patient surveys were avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three outcomes were studied: outpatient visits, hospital inpatient admissions, and duration of hospital inpatient admissions. For all three outcomes, women whose first pregnancy ended in abortion fared worse than did their peers who gave birth. They were 3.4 times more likely to have outpatient visits, 5.7 times more likely to experience an inpatient admission, and the duration of those admissions averaged nearly twice as long (32.6 days compared to 16.8 days for the birth cohort).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the study found that, prior to their first pregnancies, women who gave birth had <\/span>higher<\/span><\/i> mental health services utilization rates than women who had abortions, further highlighting the dramatic difference in utilization rates following those pregnancies.<\/span><\/p>\n