{"id":16186,"date":"2012-05-08T20:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=16186"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:33:10","slug":"study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"Study shows women are confident in decision to abort, not necessarily informed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Confident or informed? <\/p><\/div>\n

A new study<\/a> by the Guttmacher Institute shows that women may be confident about their decision to abort their baby – but not necessarily informed – as Jezebel<\/em>\u2019s Erin Gloria Ryan<\/a> tries to claim. After all, people can be confident about any decision, including that their abusive husband will change or that dealing drugs is a decent way to make a living. \u00a0But having confidence does not mean that people have armed themselves with any amount of beneficial, tangible knowledge.<\/p>\n

The study, scheduled for publication in the June 2012 journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health<\/a><\/em>, looked at the \u201cattitudes,\u201d not the knowledge, of women who received abortions at one U.S. clinic. Data was taken from the pre-counseling needs assessment and clinical intake forms of over 5,109 women (5,387 abortions) in 2008. Researchers did not speak to any of the women. The results of the data evaluation showed that \u201c[f]or 87% of the abortions sought, women had high confidence in their decision before receiving counseling.\u201d The study results did not indicate a level of education regarding the stages of fetal development or the abortion process itself.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that this study proves only that women have been swayed into believing that abortion is their only option, Ryan says it shows that \u201cwomen who have abortions know what they’re doing.\u201d In addition, the researchers declare, \u201c[r]egulations requiring state-approved information or waiting periods may not meet the complex needs of all women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan and the researchers are all missing the mark and mistaking self-belief for actual knowledge – confirming that women considering abortion need to be fully informed about the states of their pregnancies, the lives of their children, and the act of abortion in order to make and live with their decision of whether or not to legally kill their own children. In the end, all this study shows is that laws, including Utah\u2019s new 72-hour<\/a> abortion waiting period, have the potential to replace that misguided confidence with the power of knowledge, and save lives in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guttmacher and Jezebel<\/em> miss the mark once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nStudy shows women are confident in decision to abort, not necessarily informed - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Study shows women are confident in decision to abort, not necessarily informed - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guttmacher and Jezebel miss the mark once again.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-09T00:47:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-03T06:33:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstimefree_72221.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2124\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"Study shows women are confident in decision to abort, not necessarily informed\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-09T00:47:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-03T06:33:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\"},\"wordCount\":361,\"commentCount\":30,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Investigative\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-shows-women-are-confident-in-decision-to-abort-not-necessarily-informed\/\",\"name\":\"Study shows women are confident in decision to abort, not necessarily informed - 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