A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Health has found that abortion can impact relationships for both women and men. For both women and men, abortion was associated with problems in the current relationship, whether the abortion had taken place with one's current partner or a previous partner. Experience of an abortion within a current relationship was associated with 116% and 196% increased risk of arguing about children for women and men, respectively. The study also found differences in women's and men's responses to abortion.

Public Health, 2009

Coleman PK, Rue VM, Coyle CT. Induced abortion and intimate relationship quality in the Chicago Health and Social Life Survey.