by special interest groups. this one was part of efforts to overturn the historic rowe versus wade decision. priscilla coleman herself has been an expert witness in more than 20 court cases. thank you ma am, you may have a seat for your comfort. but this now influential paper, linking abortion and poor mental health, has been controversial from the moment it was released in 2011. so a colleague of my brought my attention to the paper and said what do you think of this meta analysis? and i looked at it, and was really concerned. professorjulia littell is one of those who wrote to the britishjournal of psychiatry, which published this research, asking for it to be taken down. she points to guidelines for this kind of study, called amstar. because it does not meet those standards, we don t believe that the results are reliable or credible. in fact, julia littell says, out of 11 amstar criteria, priscilla coleman s paper doesn t meet any. i have never seen it before.