Paid-only Episode 18: Abortion

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As if the basic “pro-life vs. pro-choice” issue wasn’t controversial enough, there’s been a decades-long scientific debate on the impact of abortion on mental health. Does getting an abortion cause a lifetime of depression? Or do most women think that in retrospect it was the correct choice?

As it happens, this issue opens up some massive questions about meta-analysis, bias, and the impact of legal threats on science. Tom and Stuart discuss them in this paid-only episode of The Studies Show.

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With apologies from Tom for lateness because he forgot to press send.

A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

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