Now that some clinicians have established that there is an identifiable patterns to PAS, they face a new challenge. What is still unknown is how widespread psychological problems are among women who have had abortions. A Los Angeles Times survey in 1989 found that 56% of women who had abortions felt guilty about it, and 26% "mostly regretted the abortion."[110]

Clinicians' current goal should be to conduct extensive national research studies to obtain data on the psychological after-effects of abortion.[111]
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