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Republican Doctors Are More Likely to Discourage Abortions

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A new Yale study shows that Republican doctors discourage patients from abortions, while promoting scientifically unsound and potentially dangerous ‘mental health aspects’ of the procedure.

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If you’ve had an abortion, you might want to look up your doctor’s voter registration.

A new study from Yale researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences found that Democratic and Republican primary-care physicians had significantly different responses to hypothetical patient scenarios involving controversial issues like...

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