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    PBS Airtime: Friday, July 20, 2007 at 8:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)

The politics and science of a new pro-life argument: Do abortions endanger a woman's mental health? Next time on NOW.

    Does abortion cause long-term emotional and psychological problems for women? On Friday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. (check local listings), NOW introduces viewers to a new front in the effort to end abortions in the United States: claims of extreme negative effects on a woman's mental health. Once focusing primarily on the unborn child, anti-abortion advocates see new hope in an argument that focuses on the women who've made or are about to make a fateful decision. All sides of the debate have been listening and weighing in, including the Supreme Court.

    The NOW web site at www.pbs.org/now will feature insightful perspectives from two opposing advocates in the abortion debate, take a closer look at where the Supreme Court justices stand on the abortion issue, and examine abortion laws in each state.