Suicide is the second leading cause of death for all U.S. teens and it's even higher for LGTBQ teens.
A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests legalizing same-sex marriage has reduced suicide attempts by 134,000 per year.
Julia Raifman, the author of the study joined ABC2's In Focus to discuss. Raifman is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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