(133) See Lisa Rubin & Nancy Felipe Russo, Abortion and Mental Health: What Therapists Need To Know, 27 Women & Therapy 69, 73 (2004) ("Antiabortion advocates allege that 'postabortion syndrome' is a type of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), though no scientific basis exists for applying a PTSD framework to understand women's emotional responses to a voluntarily obtained legal abortion."); Nada Stotland, The Myth of
Abortion Trauma Syndrome: Update, 2007,42 Psychiatric news 28,28 (2007):
(3) Major B, Appelbaum M, Beckman k et al., "Abortion and mental health: Evaluating the evidence," American Psychologist 2009; 64(9):863-90; Robinson GE, Stotland NL, Russo NF et al., "Is there an '
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142, 142 (2001) ("When history of abuse, partner characteristics, and background variables were controlled, abortion was not related to poorer mental health."); Nada Stotland, The Myth of
Abortion Trauma Syndrome: Update, 2007.
Stotland, the incoming president of the American Psychiatric Association, did not go quite as far as she did in a letter to the editor to the New York Times where she wrote that "anti-abortion activists have even made up a mental disease: '
abortion trauma syndrome.'" (Did Stotland make up a mental disease?
The myth of the
abortion trauma syndrome. Journal of the American Medical Association, 268, 2078-2079.