Steinberg JR, et al. - Researchers examined the association between abortion and non-fatal suicide attempts, adjusting for confounding factors, using data that do not rely on self-report and were unaffected by low participation rates. They performed a longitudinal cohort study using Danish population registries; data on a cohort of women born in Denmark between January 1, 1980, and December 30, 1998, were linked in this study. In all, they included data from 523,280 women. Among these women, at least one first-trimester abortion was reported in 48,990 women, and a suicide attempt during the study period was reported in 10,216. The analysis revealed a higher risk of non-fatal suicide attempts among women who had abortions vs those who did not have an abortion. However, as the same raised risk was reported in both the year before and after the abortion, it seemed not attributable to the abortion. These findings suggested the misinforming of policies based on the notion that abortion raises women's risk of suicide attempts.