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No, Pro-Life Laws Are Not Increasing Suicides Among Teenage Girls

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04.08.2026

This summer, the journal JAMA Network Open published a study that purportedly found that abortion bans were increasing the risk of suicidal thoughts among female high school students. This study analyzed four years of Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from more than 300,000 high school students. It has been covered by a number of media outlets, including Newsweek, the 19th News, and Econofact.

Not surprisingly, there is much less here than meets the eye. The........

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