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Annotated Bibliography

Research Question: What are the mental and social effects of having an abortion?

Research Argument Thesis Statement: There will be certain women who suffer from poor mental health and social problems after an abortion.

Annotated Bibliography

“Emotional Side Effects After an Abortion.” American Pregnancy
Association, 3 Sept. 2016, americanpregnancy.org/unplanned-pregnancy/abortion-emotional-effects/.

This is an informational website. The information on this site comes from nine different scholarly journals. The site does not take a bias, it just lays out a plan for people who might be struggling after an abortion. It seems like a trustworthy, credible source. The website is laid out well and is easy to navigate. The information is from 1990 through 2003 There are no pop-up ads or extraneous links. There are no grammatical or spelling errors. There is both a contact us, which includes phone numbers and emails and live chat feature on the website.

Major, Brenda. American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Aug.
2008, www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/abortion.

This is an executive summary of the Mental Health and Abortion American Psychology Association Task Force. The task force is composed of seven doctors who specialize in mental health. The task force examines prior research to try to draw conclusions. This looks like a very credible and reliable source. There seems to be no spelling or grammatical errors. The site has links to the research and evidence that the task force is examining. Everything is presented in a professional manner with a high emphasis on the information.

“Abortion | Data and Statistics | Reproductive Health | CDC.” Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 Nov. 2018, www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm.

This is a United States government information website on all statistics on abortion. It is mainly just all data and facts. Data ranges from 2009 to 2015 on all abortions from each state. Though it is an unbiased and credible source, each state voluntarily reports their number of abortions, so numbers may be skewed. The raw information is all downloadable to excel sheets. It is very easy to read the information and extrapolate trends in the data.

Jones, A. J. (2015). Pre-abortion counseling to mitigate negative mental health outcomes: A
practical guide for clinicians (Order No. 3733658). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1735801378). Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1735801378?accountid=12043

This is a scholarly journal from the University of Hartford Department of Psychology. The paper is very credible because it was approved unanimously by the Psy.D. dissertation committee. The author Amanda Jane Jones has extensive education and a lot of experience in the field of this type of phycology. She really focuses on the counseling that comes before an abortion. It is well written into comfortably lengthed sections that break down the research. There are no spelling or grammatical errors. All data is laid out in a simple, readable way.

Coleman, P. (2011). Abortion and mental health: Quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009. British Journal of Psychiatry, 199(3), 180-186. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.077230

This is a scholarly journal from the British Journal of Psychiatry and is a quantitative synthesis of studies on the relationship between mental health and abortions. It is comprised of twenty-two unbiased, reputable studies that covered 877,181 participants. It is the largest available data set that can be found on this research question. It provides statistics for many different possibilities of outcomes for all types of women after having an abortion. All of the data and information is presented in a clear and concise way with no grammatical errors. Without a doubt, this is a very credible source and will help my research immensely.

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