Why do you think Roe v. Wade doesn't have an impact on women and girls? Studies show that it has had a measurable effect, especially in states where women have lost autonomy over their bodies.

The performative pressures brought on by Instagram and co. is a problem and maybe it impact teen girls acutely more, but the young ladies I've talked to and mentored expressed a great deal of angst about their futures because of things like Roe v. Wade.

Well I never said it didn’t or couldn’t have an impact-just that for teen girls depressed enough to consider suicide there are much stronger negative drivers to that depression than political fights around a topic that statistically will likely not directly impact the girl in their lifetime.

Certainly in a specific edge case situation, the inability to have access to abortion for a pregnant girl who wants one could be a strong influencer of despair—perhaps even beyond bullying. But my comment was more directed to what is most likely the cause of the despair and to be blunt, I doubt that to a non-pregnant depressed girl considering suicide, their immediate access to abortion or what is happening politically around Roe v Wade is overriding despair they get from hellhole that is social media.

Pregnant teenage girls are hit the hardest. The subset that is not forced to give birth, afraid that they might be pregnant and their friends are bound to be more depressed.

In person sexual harassments rates also went up during that period. It is not just social media.