Social sources of women's emotional difficulty after abortion: lessons from women's abortion narratives.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health

• Publication date

  2011-06-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1363/4310311PMID 21651709
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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