Women's Health After Abortion

Women's Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence

by Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles

The de Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2002, 3089 Bathurst St., Suite 316, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2A4,

www.deveber.org, ISBN 0-920453-22-8 333, pp., $24.95 Cdn.

This is a great resource!  It gives a thorough review of the literature related to each of many major issues.

While you should own a copy, the entire contents of this book can be viewed online. You can also view a single web page that provides a summary of key findings of each chapter.

Below is the Table of Contents

1. Research on Post-Abortion Complications: An Overview
2. Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer
3. Induced Abortion and Other Cancers
4. Impact on Subsequent Pregnancies
5. Future Fertility
6. Maternal Mortality
7. Repeat Abortion
8. Drug-induced or "Medical" Abortion
9. Pain
10. When Abortion Fails
11. Psychological Risk Factors
12. Abortion after Prenatal Testing
13. Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction
14. Behavioral Outcomes, Suicide, Healing
15. Abortion and Interpersonal Relationships
16. Abortion: Its Effect on Men
17. Methodology and Bias: Problems with the Way Post-Abortion Research is Done
18. Informed Consent and Abortion: A Woman's Right to Know

I can't praise this book enough. If you want an up to date review of any of the above topics, here is a GREAT place to start. You can read each chapter in a pdf electonric document at http://www.deveber.org/womens-health-after-abortion.