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The majority of research finds that women whose unwanted pregnancies end in abortion do not subsequently have adverse mental health outcomes; scant research examines this relationship for young women.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291717001684_sec_a2\" sec-type=\"methods\"><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were analyzed. Population-averaged lagged logistic and linear regression models were employed to test the relationship between pregnancy resolution outcome and subsequent depressive symptoms, adjusting for prior depressive symptoms, history of traumatic experiences, and sociodemographic covariates. Depressive symptoms were measured using a nine-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. Analyses were conducted among two subsamples of women whose unwanted first pregnancies were resolved in either abortion or live birth: (1) 856 women with an unwanted first pregnancy between Waves 2 and 3; and (2) 438 women with an unwanted first pregnancy between Waves 3 and 4 (unweighted <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2019s).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291717001684_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In unadjusted and adjusted linear and logistic regression analyses for both subsamples, there was no association between having an abortion after an unwanted first pregnancy and subsequent depressive symptoms. 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