Professor David Albert Jones:

Professor David Paton is an economist from Nottingham. We looked at the statistics in 2015. On several tests, there was a suggestion that there was an increase but it was not statistically significant on our final test. Girma and Paton have gone back to the data now that more states have done this. They have used two different methods and they have found statistically significant rates of increase. There was a 6% increase in relation to suicide in general and a 14% increase in relation to suicide of women. Association is not the same as causality but there is an association, which is shown by a peer-reviewed paper.