Certainty and intention in pregnancy decision-making: An exploratory study.

Objective: Abortion is often characterized as an inherently difficult decision, despite research demonstrating high decision certainty among abortion patients. Minimal research has examined decision certainty among people planning to continue a pregnancy. We examined whether women seeking abortion experience lower decision certainty than those planning to continue pregnancies and whether certainty differs by pregnancy intendedness.

"I was close to death!": abortion and medical risk on American television, 2005-2016.

Objectives: To examine the portrayal of complications and long-term health consequences associated with abortion on television, recognizing the impact that fictional stories can have on public beliefs about abortion's safety.

Study Design: Using a systematic online search, we identified all instances of abortion on US television from 2005 to 2016. We qualitatively coded these plotlines to identify any occurrences of complications, interventions or long-term health consequences associated with abortion care, with 95% intercoder reliability.

Does abortion increase women's risk for post-traumatic stress? Findings from a prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Objective: To prospectively assess women's risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) over 4 ears after seeking an abortion, and to assess whether symptoms are attributed to the pregnancy, abortion or birth, or other events in women's lives.

Design: Prospective longitudinal cohort study which followed women from approximately 1 week after receiving or being denied an abortion (baseline), then every 6 months for 4 years (9 interview waves).

Setting: 30 abortion facilities located throughout the USA.