Tag Archives: Suicide

State Highlights: States From Pennsylvania To Hawaii Brace For Food Stamps Rule Change; Highway Signage For Suicide Prevention Added To Maryland Bill

Wednesday, Mar 4 2020 8:50 AM full issue State Highlights: States From Pennsylvania To Hawaii Brace For Food Stamps Rule Change; Highway Signage For Suicide Prevention Added To Maryland Bill Media outlets report on news from Illinois, Hawaii, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, California, Alabama and Tennessee. The Associated Press: States Scramble To Prepare Ahead… Read More »

Abortion Does Not Increase Women’s Risk for Suicide

Although abortion is a legal medical procedure in the United States, the belief that abortion is associated with adverse psychological outcomes has been the basis for legislation and policies which restrict access to abortion. At the present time 34 states currently require that women seeking an abortion receive counseling regarding the negative emotional consequences she… Read More »

Postpartum Suicide is Tragic, But Preventable

Women are at significant risk for severe psychiatric illness after childbirth, particularly during the first three months. Suicide is a rare but tragic outcome of untreated psychiatric illness in this setting, but it is also preventable. In order to prevent suicide, we must be able to identify which women are at highest risk for suicide. … Read More »

Physician-assisted suicide is a collaborative process

Who remembers Jack Kevorkian, Doctor Death? He was found guilty in 1998 of second-degree murder. Still, it was because of his advocacy that the terminally ill patient’s right to die by physician-assisted suicide was propelled into the public arena. And who can forget Brittany Maynard? It was her advocacy for physician-assisted suicide that reignited the… Read More »