Psychiatr News August 17, 2007
Volume 42, Number 16, page 8
© 2007 American Psychiatric Association
Erratum
An editing error occurred in the second paragraph in the July 20 Viewpoints
column by APA President-elect Nada Stotland, M.D., titled "The Myth of
Abortion Trauma Syndrome: Update, 2007." Here is the correctly worded
paragraph:
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision about so-called "partial birth
abortion" outlawed a procedure that the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists had testified was sometimes necessary to
protect a woman's health and also asserted that abortion caused psychological
damage to women. This was the first time the Court upheld a law forbidding a
procedure that medical experts testified was sometimes necessary to protect
the patient's health. To quote from the opinion: "While we find no
reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude
some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once
created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow"
(550 U.S., pp. 28-29, 2007). 
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