Another concurred that existing research is methodologically flawed and that women who abort show more negative outcomes than those who deliver their babies. An Emerging Public Health Concern, J. of Soc. Issues , vol. Sequelae of Abortion, Linacre Quart. Jour., U. of Ottawa , vol.
Suicide is rare among pregnant women, but much more common after induced abortion.
It is never re-ported under maternal mortality from abortion, of course, even though it is causative. Perhaps women are reluctant to take another life with them when they do this. This has not changed since Dr. M. Sims' original paper. In Japan, where abortion has been legal and accepted for over four decades, a common custom is to conduct Mizuyo Kuyo services in honor of the god Jizo. This god has been made the patron saint of infants who died of starvation, abortion, or infanticide.