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David Reardon

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Koop "the data do not support the premise that abortion does or does not cause or contribute to psychological problems."
"the scientific studies do not provide conclusive data about the health effects of abortion on women. I recommend that consideration be given to going forward with an appropriate prospective study."

Reardon has published several peer-reviewed studies on the physical and psychological effects of abortion. Reardon's studies have consistently found a significant statistical associations between a history of abortion and elevated risks of death,[1] psychiatric hospitalization,[2] suicide,[3] depression,[4] anxiety,[5] sleep disorders,[6] and other sequelae.[7]

Reardon's research and methodology have been criticized by, among others, Brenda Major of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Nancy Russo, a psychology professor at Arizona State University.[8][9]

Abortion and Subsequent Substance Abuse

In his earliest peer-reviewed paper, Reardon reported a statistical association between abortion and subsequent substance abuse. "Women who aborted a first pregnancy were five times more likely to report subsequent substance abuse than women who carried to term, and they were four times more likely to report substance abuse compared to those who suffered a natural loss of their first pregnancy (i.e., due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or stillbirth)."[10]

Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - a cohort study

Reardon coauthored a brief report published in 2002 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) describing his analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) database. Reardon found that among married women, abortion was associated with a higher risk of depression than childbirth.[11] The BMJ published seven "Rapid Responses" to his report, and six replies thereto by Reardon.[12]

Analyzing the same dataset as Reardon but using what they described as more appropriate methodology, Schmiege and Russo reported in 2005 that evidence for Reardon's finding was inconclusive.[13] Among the many responses were two lengthy letters by Reardon.[14]

Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome - a record linkage study of low income women

In a 2002 report published in the Southern Medical Journal, Reardon and his co-authors examined the California Medicaid records for 173,279 women and found higher death rates associated with abortion than with childbirth.[15]

Psychiatric Admissions of Low-income Women Following Abortion and Childbirth

In 2003, Reardon published a study of California Medicaid records for 56,741 low income women. Reardon and his colleagues found that women who had an abortion had a higher risk of psychiatric admission than women who gave birth.[16]

Along with Reardon's paper, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an article by Brenda Major, who argued that Reardon's methodology was flawed.[8] The two articles "elicited a barrage of letters"[17] including short letters by Reardon and Major.[18]

  1. ^ Reardon DC, Ney PG, Scheuren F, Cougle J, Coleman PK, Strahan TW (2002). "Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women". South. Med. J. 95 (8): 834–41. PMID 12190217.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Reardon DC, Cougle JR, Rue VM, Shuping MW, Coleman PK, Ney PG (2003). "Psychiatric admissions of low-income women following abortion and childbirth". CMAJ. 168 (10): 1253–6. PMID 12743066.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Reardon DC, Strahan TW, Thorp JM, Shuping MW (2004). "Deaths associated with abortion compared to childbirth--a review of new and old data and the medical and legal implications". J Contemp Health Law Policy. 20 (2): 279–327. PMID 15239361.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Cougle JR, Reardon DC, Coleman PK (2003). "Depression associated with abortion and childbirth: a long-term analysis of the NLSY cohort". Med. Sci. Monit. 9 (4): CR105–12. PMID 12709667.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Cougle JR, Reardon DC, Coleman PK (2005). "Generalized anxiety following unintended pregnancies resolved through childbirth and abortion: a cohort study of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth". J Anxiety Disord. 19 (1): 137–42. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2003.12.003. PMID 15488373.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Reardon DC, Coleman PK (2006). "Relative treatment rates for sleep disorders and sleep disturbances following abortion and childbirth: a prospective record-based study". Sleep. 29 (1): 105–6. PMID 16453987.
  7. ^ Rue VM, Coleman PK, Rue JJ, Reardon DC (2004). "Induced abortion and traumatic stress: a preliminary comparison of American and Russian women". Med. Sci. Monit. 10 (10): SR5–16. PMID 15448616.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ a b Major B (2003). "Psychological implications of abortion--highly charged and rife with misleading research". CMAJ. 168 (10): 1257–8. PMID 12743067.
  9. ^ Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome?, by Emily Bazelon. Published in the New York Times Magazine on January 21 2007; accessed November 27 2007.
  10. ^ Abortion and Subsequent Substance Abuse
  11. ^ Reardon DC, Cougle JR (2002). "Depression and unintended pregnancy in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: a cohort study". BMJ. 324 (7330): 151–2. PMID 11799033.
  12. ^ "Rapid Responses to Reardon, Cougle". BMJ.
  13. ^ Schmiege S, Russo NF (2005). "Depression and unwanted first pregnancy: longitudinal cohort study". BMJ. 331 (7528): 1303. doi:10.1136/bmj.38623.532384.55. PMID 16257993.
  14. ^ "Rapid Responses to Schmiege, Russo". BMJ.
  15. ^ Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women August 2002
  16. ^ Reardon DC, Cougle JR, Rue VM, Shuping MW, Coleman PK, Ney PG. Psychiatric Admissions of Low-income Women Following Abortion and Childbirth Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2003; 168(10):1253-7.
  17. ^ "Unwanted results: the ethics of controversial research". CMAJ. July 22, 2003.
  18. ^ "Cited by ..."

Peer-reviewed studies

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I have expanded and trimmed this section. Because Reardon has 25 cites in PubMed I thought there should be more than two of his papers in his section. To decide which ones were more notable, I counted how many times each paper was cited elsewhere in PubMed. It turned out that the two most cited papers were already in our article. I added the next most cited article and I added his earliest paper, notable only for being his first paper.

I trimmed the summaries to just a few sentences, for the most part taken from the abstracts. I didn't want to get into a lot of details or a long back and forth. Abstracts should be a fair summary of what the author thinks most important, helps to avoid cherry-picking, and retains verifiability for readers who might not have access to the full papers.

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