Kelly Kimberly, Gochanour Amanda A
a Department of Sociology , Mississippi State University , Mississippi State , MS , USA.
Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care. 2019 Feb;24(1):13-17. doi: 10.1080/13625187.2018.1563066. Epub 2019 Feb 7.
Recent studies have focused on the pseudo-psychological condition 'post abortion syndrome' and women, particularly the content and veracity of these claims in the USA. What such claims say about men and the accuracy of these claims remains unclear, and we seek to remedy this.
The study proceeded in two parts. First, we identified primary documents from anti-abortion activists in the USA making claims about men and post abortion syndrome and analysed them for assertions about the effects of abortion upon men. Second, we searched Google Scholar using the terms 'men' and 'abortion' to identify 41 peer reviewed articles that included (1) thorough descriptions of sampling, data collection, and analysis, (2) acknowledgement of the limitations, and (3) findings/discussion that do not extrapolate beyond the scope of the data.
We compared U.S. activists' claims with scholarly findings. Activists claims rely on gender essentialism, arguing men should stop women from aborting to prevent psychological disorders and disruption of traditional family and sexual norms. In contrast, scientific studies find a range of minor psychological responses but not responses akin to post abortion syndrome to be common.
Similar to findings about women and abortion, we do not find support for anti-abortion activists' claims or the existence of post abortion syndrome among men.
近期研究聚焦于“堕胎后综合征”这一伪心理状况以及女性，尤其是美国这些说法的内容和真实性。而这些说法对男性的描述以及其准确性仍不明确，我们试图对此加以纠正。
该研究分两部分进行。首先，我们从美国反堕胎活动人士的主要文件中找出有关男性和堕胎后综合征的说法，并分析其中关于堕胎对男性影响的断言。其次，我们在谷歌学术上用“男性”和“堕胎”进行搜索，以找出41篇经过同行评审的文章，这些文章需包括：（1）对抽样、数据收集和分析的详尽描述；（2）对局限性的承认；（3）不超出数据范围的研究结果/讨论。
我们将美国活动人士的说法与学术研究结果进行了比较。活动人士的说法基于性别本质主义，认为男性应阻止女性堕胎以预防心理障碍以及传统家庭和性规范的破坏。相比之下，科学研究发现一系列轻微的心理反应，但类似于堕胎后综合征的反应并不常见。
与关于女性和堕胎的研究结果类似，我们并未找到支持反堕胎活动人士说法的依据，也未发现男性存在堕胎后综合征。
