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UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0Reuters Agrees to Correct Questionable Abortion Statistic<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tuesday, Reuters published an article here<\/a>\u00a0by Jon Herskovitz with the following headline:<\/p>\n

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The articles goes on to state:<\/p>\n

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There is only one problem: it isn’t true.<\/p>\n

The study in question<\/a> is by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a group of pro-abortion researchers and industry insiders. The study asked Texas women via an online survey panel if ”\u00a0they had ever tried to end a pregnancy on their own.” The response was 1.7% saying yes. The Texas abortion restrictions went into effect in 2013. The survey fails to establish if the self-abortions happened before or after 2013 or if the rate increased.<\/p>\n

Abortion self-induction was described in the survey as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen make different choices about how to end an unwanted pregnancy. Some women may go to a hospital, clinic, or doctor\u2019s office to have an abortion. Other women may do something to try to end a pregnancy without medical assistance. For example, they may get information from the internet, a friend, or family member about pills, medicine, or herbs they can take on their own, or they may do something else to try to end the pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because the\u00a0study didn’t ask\u00a0WHEN these women attempted to self-abort,\u00a0a respondent who tried to take an\u00a0herb 20 years ago in Mexico would be a “yes.”<\/p>\n

We have no way to know if self-abortions are on the rise following the Texas abortion restrictions\u00a0because the study did not compare the current results to\u00a0any past results.<\/p>\n

Reuters should immediately correct their headline and story text that indicates that the self-abortions came after the 2013 law.<\/p>\n

Additionally the 100,000-240,000 estimate is questionable\u00a0because a 1.7% reporting rate would be 100,000 Texas women of reproductive age. The 240,000 estimate comes from the study asking if a respondent knew or even suspected their best friend attempted a self-abortion.\u00a0Basing estimates on suspicions about behaviors of best friends is a highly odd way to do serious academic research but the media is happy to pass it on without critical analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:\u00a0Reuters Agrees to Correct Questionable Abortion Statistic   Tuesday, Reuters published an article here\u00a0by Jon Herskovitz with the following headline: The articles goes on to state: There is only one problem: it isn’t true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":73411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1868,581,4957,1234,82,6241],"yoast_head":"\nCorrection requested: Reuters bungles reporting on Texas self-abortion study - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We have no way to know if self-abortions are up since the TX abortion restrictions because the study didn't compare current results to any past ones.\" \/>\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\/correction-requested-reuters-bungles-reporting-on-texas-self-abortion-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Correction requested: Reuters bungles reporting on Texas self-abortion study - 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