Just Read: Marriage equality = 134,000 less suicide attempts in adolescents

We estimated that, each year, same-sex marriage policies would be associated with more than 134 000 fewer adolescents attempting suicide. These results reflect an important reduction in adolescent emotional distress and risk of mortality from suicide.

Equality does equal health.

I did read the paper and reviewed the analysis – these numbers are possible because 29% of sexual minority adolescents (lesbian, gay, bisexual) report attempting suicide in the last 12 months compared to 6% in the general population.

This is the impact modeled from just one policy change (that has since been applied across the United States) for a subset of the LGBTQ population.

Imagine if every State in the United States was as supportive of equality as Washington, DC is.

Diversity allows the human species to survive 🙂 .

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More love. Less suicide. 2013.06.26 – SCOTUS 26251 (View on Flickr.com)

Raifman J, Moscoe E, Austin SB, McConnell M. Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Association Between State Same-Sex Marriage Policies and Adolescent Suicide Attempts. JAMA Pediatr [Internet]. [cited 2017 Feb 21]

Ted Eytan, MD