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To the Editor. —Dr Stotland contends that the abortion trauma syndrome is a myth 1 and states as her reason for this conclusion that she could find no references to this syndrome the scientific Having seen this entity in my own inner-city practice on several occasions, I was motivated to examine the literature. My brief research indicated that postabortion dysphoria is a documented entity in the medical and sociological literature, and is not confined, as Stotland would have it, to religious tracts and antiabortion publications. Tamburrino et al 2 published an article that explored psychosocial factors, especially religion, in women identified as dysphoric 1 to 15 years after abortion. Another article 3 cites close to 100 references, including Psychiatric Sequelae of Therapeutic 4 and Postpartum and Postabortion Psychotic Reactions 5 among others. Abortion is usually a significant life event. Regardless of where one stands on the ethics
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