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New Study Finds Women Face Tremendous Emotional Distress After Abortions

This fall, the International Journal of Women’s Health Care published a study by Paul Sullins of the Ruth Institute and the Catholic University of America. It provides strong statistical evidence that many women who obtain abortions experience emotional distress — even many years after the abortion took place. Unlike previous research, this new study only analyzed women between the ages of 41 and 45. Therefore, among women who have had abortions, the average time between the abortion and the sur