Edited sentence: (In a sample of over 173,000 California women who had abortions or live births,) those who aborted had a significantly higher age adjusted risk of death.(Reardon DC, Ney PG, Scheuren F, Cougle J, Coleman PK, Strahan TW: Deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: a record linkage study of low income women.A study conducted by Finland’s National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health, that was published in the European Journal of Public Health, found significantly higher suicide rates and death rates, among women who had an abortion, versus women who had given birth.Abortion might mean a selection of women at higher risk for suicide because of reasons like depression.Although the correlation existed other factors were determined to have possibly inhibited some of the results.Another explanation for the higher suicide rate after an abortion could be low social class, low social support, and previous life events or that abortion is chosen by women who are at higher risk for suicide because of other reasons.CONCLUSIONS: Higher death rates associated with abortion persist over time and across socioeconomic boundaries.Increased risk for a suicide after an induced abortion can, besides indicating common risk factors for both, result from a negative effect of induced abortion on mental wellbeing.Our data clearly show, however, that women who have experienced an abortion have an increased risk of suicide, which should be taken into account in the prevention of such deaths.Southern Medical Journal 95(8):834 41, 2002.This may be explained by self destructive tendencies, depression, and other unhealthy behavior aggravated by the abortion experience.With our data, however, it was not possible to study the causality more carefully.from suicide (2.54) (compared to women who delivered their babies).“The relation between suicide, mental disorders, life events, social class, and social support is a complex one