Abortion, Psychiatry, and the Quality of Life

ZIGMOND M. LEBENSOHNAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.946

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Psychiatry should be more deeply concerned about the quality of life than any other medical discipline. The population explosion already threatens the quality of life on this planet. On the individual level, the forced arrival of an unwanted, unloved child because of archaic abortion laws creates grave consequences for the unwanted child, the unloving mother, the fragmented family, and ultimately for society itself. When contraception fails, preventive psychiatry requires that abortion be a matter between a woman and her physician.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 8 • February 1972

Pages: 946 - 951

PubMed: 5058114

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Published in print: February 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ZIGMOND M. LEBENSOHN

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C.

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Abortion, Psychiatry, and the Quality of Life

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