ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2024
Restrictive abortion legislation and adverse mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.
Article in Annals of epidemiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Restrictive abortion policy climate is associated with increased depression symptoms among women in the United States: Findings from a 25-year longitudinal study.SSM. Mental health · 2026Article
- Associations between state-level abortion restrictions and postpartum depression symptoms from a United States nationwide cohort.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Staying in a punishing place: online narratives about pregnancy and abortion in pre-liberalisation Ireland.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Contraceptive Barriers and Psychological Well-Being After Repeat Induced Abortion: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Suicide deaths among reproductive-aged women in the US post-Dobbs: a national time-series analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Association Between State Abortion Restrictiveness and Perinatal Depression.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2025Article
- Mapping the scientific literature on obstetric and perinatal health among sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) childbearing people and their infants: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the impact of abortion legislation on mental health during pregnancy and postpartum and assess whether pregnancy intention mediates associations.
methodsWe quantified associations between restrictive abortion laws and stress, depression symptoms during and after pregnancy, and depression diagnoses after pregnancy using longitudinal data from Nurses' Health Study 3 in 2010-2017 (4091 participants, 4988 pregnancies) using structural equation models with repeated measures, controlling for sociodemographics, prior depression, state economic and sociopolitical measures (unemployment rate, gender wage gap, Gini index, percentage of state legislatures who are women, Democratic governor).
resultsRestrictive abortion legislation was associated with unintended pregnancies (β = 0.127, p = 0.02). These were, in turn, associated with increased risks of stress and depression symptoms during pregnancy (total indirect effects β = 0.035, p = 0.03; β = 0.029, p = 0.03, respectively, corresponding <1% increase in probability), but not after pregnancy.
conclusionsAbortion restrictions are associated with higher proportions of unintended pregnancies, which are associated with increased risks of stress and depression during pregnancy.
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