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
- Research on Post-Abortion Complications: An Overview
- Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer
- Induced Abortion and Other Cancers
- Impact on Subsequent Pregnancies
- Future Fertility
- Maternal Mortality
- Repeat Abortion
- Drug-induced or "Medical" Abortion
- Pain
- When Abortion Fails
- Psychological Risk Factors
- Abortion after Prenatal Testing
- Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction
- Behavioral Outcomes, Suicide, Healing
- Abortion and Interpersonal Relationships
- Abortion: Its Effect on Men
- Methodology and Bias: Problems with the Way Post-Abortion Research is Done
- 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.