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Post-Abortion Stress Syndrome
On November 6, 2001, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to
an appropriations bill (H.R. 3061, Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002). Section 227 of that amendment
acknowledges the existence of Post-Abortion Stress Syndrome.
Here is the text of that section:
(from
Thomas Register)
SEC. 227. It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of NIH and the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (in this section referred to as the `Institute'), should expand and intensify research and related activities of the Institute with respect to post-abortion depression and post-abortion psychosis (in this section referred to as `post-abortion conditions');
(2) the Director of the Institute should coordinate the activities of the Director under paragraph (1) with similar activities conducted by the other national research institutes and agencies of the National Institutes of Health to the extent that such Institutes and agencies have responsibilities that are related to post-abortion conditions;
(3) in carrying out paragraph (1)--
(A) the Director of the Institute should conduct or support research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, post-abortion conditions; and
(B) activities under such paragraph should include conducting and supporting the following:
(i) basic research concerning the etiology and causes of the conditions;
(ii) epidemiological studies to address the frequency and natural history of the conditions and the differences among racial and ethnic groups with respect to the conditions;
(iii) the development of improved diagnostic techniques;
(iv) clinical research for the development and evaluation of new treatments, including new biological agents; and
(v) information and education programs for health care professionals and the public; and
(4)(A) the Director of the Institute should conduct a national longitudinal study to determine the incidence and prevalence of cases of post-abortion conditions, and the symptoms, severity, and duration of such cases, toward the goal of more fully identifying the characteristics of such cases and developing diagnostic techniques; and
(B) beginning not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and periodically thereafter for the duration of the study under subparagraph (A), the Director of the Institute should prepare and submit to the Congress reports on the findings of the study.
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