MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of mental
illness do not seem to be at increased risk of readmission to a
psychiatric hospital after having an abortion in their first trimester,
a new study suggests.
The findings, which appear in the February issue of the Archives of
General Psychiatry, support several previous studies showing that women
who undergo abortion do not face a higher risk of mental health problems
afterwards.
But anti-abortion advocates say the psychological risks of abortion are
still not fully understood.
"The take-home message from our study is that having a first-time,
first-trimester induced abortion does not influence readmission risk,
since risk of readmission is similar before and after the abortion
procedure," said study author Dr. Trine Munk-Olsen, an epidemiologist at
Aarhus University in Denmark.
http://www.ivillage.com/does-abortion-first-trimester-raise-risk-mental-ills-return/4-a-425612
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