These drugs cause some pretty severe disruption to the body’s chemistry, which is suggestive of a physical effect on the mother’s mood, especially when combined with the effects of pregnancy hormones which they disrupt.
I wonder if these researchers have plans to study the psychological effects of using surgical means to destroy the unborn pups. That would answer questions this study left open.
Abortion is such an unnatural act, it would not be surprising for a study to find that it has all kinds of deleterious effects on psychology. Of course, the highly profitable abortion industry has little interest in such studies. And when evidence of psychological harm from abortion is presented, abortion apologists always claim that the abortion client was already drug addicted, depressed, etc., and that’s why she got pregnant in the first place.
I suspect that researchers have long harbored the mistaken assumption that women are just like men, except that they have these toggle features like fertility that can be turned on or off. As the above article revealed, the kind of research which could detect pervasive effects on the brain arising from disruptions to fertility/fecundity, weren't even considered when these drugs were being developed.
Isn't it truly outrageous that these endocrine-disruptors are being marketed to millions and millions of women without the "gyno-industrial complex" having done the most basic kind of animal trials to test for symptoms associated with depression and anxiety? And other effects as well?
An anti-fertility bias is always an anti-woman bias. There's no way to get around it. Much of the so-called "culture" wants us to be sterile as a sexbot, or boys with tits: but we're not.