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The University of California think tank Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) has become notorious over the past few years for shabby pro-abortion propaganda masquerading as serious research, from bogus claims that 95% of women who get abortions are happy afterward<\/a> to failed attempts to paint<\/a> sex-selection abortion bans as pointless to not one<\/a> but two<\/a> \u201cstudies\u201d that can only be described as demented for their complaints that Hollywood\u2019s overwhelmingly favorable depictions of abortion still aren\u2019t favorable enough.<\/p>\n

Their latest study, covered by Slate<\/a>, interviewed women considering abortion in Utah, which mandates a 72-hour waiting period before getting an abortion. It supposedly found that only 8% of them decided against the abortion during the wait. The insinuation: pro-lifers are wasting women\u2019s time and money for no good reason.<\/p>\n

But abortion advocates\u00a0shouldn\u2019t pop the champagne corks just yet…<\/p>\n

Aside from the aforementioned general unreliability of ANSIRH\u2019s work, there are a number of caveats undermining and contradicting the abortion narrative\u2019s takeaway.<\/p>\n

First, this study worked with a relatively small number of women. They interviewed 500 at first, but only followed up with 308 of them\u2014leaving the question of whether the results would hold for different, larger samples very much open.<\/p>\n

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As an aside, it’s worth noting that 8% of 308 is 24 or 25 people, and if the average women pay<\/a> for a first-trimester abortion is $483, then that means the abortion industry lost at least<\/em> $11,592 from just this tiny sliver of its potential clients (with later-term abortions costing even more). Extrapolate that 8% to the 2,893 Utah women<\/a> who had abortions in 2014, and we’re talking more than $111,785. Apply it to the 327,653 abortions<\/a> Planned Parenthood performed nationwide that year, and the loss to Big Choice’s bottom line is a whopping $12,660,511.<\/p>\n

So even taking ANSIRH’s results at face value strongly suggests that the abortion lobby is trying to dismiss waiting periods as minuscule because they know it’s anything but to their own bottom line.<\/p>\n

Second, the study says that most of the women who changed their minds started out conflicted about abortion, and most who went through with it started out confident. Just as we\u2019ve seen regarding the impact of ultrasound laws<\/a>, this in no way means waiting periods are futile. Of course someone who\u2019s already set in a strong pro-abortion belief is unlikely to change her mind just from having to wait a few days. But waiting periods are meant to benefit those\u00a0who are more conflicted and more open-minded\u2014a group which, per the previous point, is in all likelihood much bigger than 8%.<\/p>\n

Surely the same pro-aborts who, for instance, advocate gun control (including, ironically, waiting periods<\/a>) on grounds such as<\/a> \u201cit\u2019s worth it if it saves just one child\u201d are capable of understanding that.<\/p>\n

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Third, other studies\u2014not from pro-lifers, mind you, but from the abortion industry\u2019s own favorite researchers<\/a>\u2014have found that waiting periods are effective. A 2014 Guttmacher Institute report<\/a> admitted that Missouri\u2019s shorter 24-hour waiting period enacted in 2009 was followed by a 17% abortion rate drop from 2008 to 2010. A 2009 Guttmacher report<\/a> found that four of the six studies showed \u201ca statistically significant association between mandatory counseling and waiting period laws and abortion rates\u201d (though some of those women got abortions out-of-state rather than choosing life). It\u2019s also worth noting that in 2005, the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Jonathan Klick found<\/a>\u00a0a relationship between abortion waiting periods and a 10% reduction in\u00a0the rate of adult female suicides.<\/p>\n

Finally, there have been multiple<\/a> reviews<\/a> affirming<\/a> that the overall spectrum of pro-life laws enacted state by state over the past several years have played significant roles in cutting states\u2019 abortion rates. It\u2019s hard to say exactly which laws are responsible for which shares of those declines, but waiting periods certainly do their part.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what pro-life legislative efforts are about: not relying solely on any one measure and expecting it to be a silver bullet, but comprehensive efforts to give women every possible opportunity and reason to choose life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of California think tank Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) has become notorious over the past few years for shabby pro-abortion propaganda masquerading as serious research, from bogus claims that 95% of women who get abortions are happy afterward to failed attempts to paint sex-selection abortion bans as pointless to not one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":63091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[3940,4015,4133,3198,1118,6107,382,3913,6734,1854],"yoast_head":"\nContrary to pro-abortion study, waiting periods save lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Poor follow-up, tiny sample, conflicting pro-abortion studies: just some problems w the latest waiting periods 'study' from those who stand to lose revenue.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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