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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 126, No. 9

Articles | March 01, 1970

Psychiatric Experience with a Liberalized Therapeutic Abortion Law

LEON MARDER

Am J Psychiatry 1970;126:1230-1236.

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Associate professor, department of psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90033

1970, American Psychiatric Association

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The author reviews the experience of a California hospital with 147 patients treated under a liberalized therapeutic abortion law. Concern and proper care for these patients minimized the development of guilt, remorse, and depression; they generally described marked relief of symptoms and reported improvement in their relationships with others, along with improved living situations. The author feels that therapeutic abortion should be maintained as a medical consideration under the medical practice code and should be removed from the criminal statutes.

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