Posted on 08/04/2026 1:37:55 PM PDT by Morgana
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 study purportedly found an increase in suicidal ideation among teenage girls who live in states with pro-life laws. However, there was no statistically significant increase in actual suicide attempts among teen girls who live in pro-life states. And the study failed to analyze the number of suicides that took place.
Furthermore, the study had a number of methodological limitations. While approximately twelve states have abortion bans in place, researchers were only able to analyze YRBS survey data from five of those states. Additionally, state abortion bans were in effect for only one of the four years of YRBS survey data analyzed by the researchers. Finally, the researchers failed to consider if abortion bans had a larger impact on sexually active teenagers or on older teenagers — demographics that might be more affected by an abortion ban.
There is a body of research that shows that pro-life laws improve teenage health outcomes. Various studies have found that pro-life parental involvement laws reduce suicide rates and gonorrhea rates among teens. A new National Bureau of Economics Research paper shows both a lower likelihood of sexual activity and a reduction in sex partners among teens who live in states with strong pro-life laws. Unfortunately, research that demonstrates the positive public health impact of pro-life laws receives scant attention from the mainstream media.
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When I was a teen, girls were pretty normal, traditional, and wholesome.
Was that back in the Victorian era??😆😆
I’m not quite that old, but I was raised by a woman who was.
A few weeks ago I found the high school yearbook for my graduating class. Almost all the girls said their ambition was to be good wives and mothers.
“Almost all the girls said their ambition was to be good wives and mothers.”
Back then the school had not messed up their minds.
We had a much better public school system. I feel very sad when I encounter so many young people today who didn’t have that. Their inner lives seem comparatively so very empty. The saddest thing is, they actually think they’re educated.
Even what I had was better than the kids of today. I can’t believe what a cesspool these schools have become.
My sister is a paraprofessional in a school that I’ll not say where. She is traumatized because a special needs child attacked her. She had to escort the boy to the bathroom one day, on the way there the boy pulled down his pants and just pissed right there. He then totally underessed, squatted down, took a dumb, then started to throw feces at my sister. She had a walkie talkie and called the office for help, they sent staff quickly but she was at her wit’s end.
This happened in a grade school. We never saw kids act like that when I was in grade school. Mrs. Ross, the principal would have busted their butts then their parents would have.
We had special needs kids in my time; but the ones who might be disruptive and needed special care had their own classrooms and specialists teaching them.
Insanity is everywhere including prescription drugs, marijuana, adult beverages, porn etc.
Suicide is an end game with inputs like that.
Public Schools were once described by my late grandmother born in 1893 as:
“Protestant Schools”
Special needs kids in my day had their own school. Some were still put in institutions back then. Some things should not have changed.
It’s very heartbreaking.
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