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Mother Jones, which has posted articles<\/a> in support of abortion many times before, recently attempted to sway the public<\/a> into thinking the abortion debate has been “reframed” because of certain cherrypicked research in author\u00a0Nina Martin’s article. In their world, only pro-abortion research is legitimate, and it’s taken as gospel.<\/p>\n

While NARAL Pro-Choice America was all too gleeful to tout this article as a way to back up their view of “science,” the abortion debate has hardly been reframed, at least not in the way Mother Jones claims.<\/p>\n

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Absurd anti-choice laws simply aren\u2019t based on science, period. https:\/\/t.co\/qI6YwEOShP<\/a> #StopTheSham<\/a> @MotherJones<\/a> @ByNinaMartin<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NARAL (@NARAL) July 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Aren’t based on science”? This claim is awfully hard to swallow when you dig a little deeper.\u00a0Martin and NARAL scoff at and attempt to discredit abortion research they disagree with because they don’t\u00a0like the conclusions reached, or the fact that some of the researchers were pro-life. As a result, they dismiss\u00a0the stories<\/a> of\u00a0women who have suffered from abortion — some of which are listed at Silent No More<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both NARAL and Martin fail to admit how abortion\u00a0can affect a woman physically and emotionally, even years after.<\/p>\n

Martin references a\u00a02008 Turnaway Study<\/a> by Diana Greene Foster from the University of California-San Francisco, which has been\u00a0criticized<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0researchers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0doctors<\/a>\u00a0for several\u00a0flaws, even though it was promoted by<\/a> the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. The study claimed that “having an abortion did not lead to depression, PTSD, or other mental health problems,” and\u00a0that\u00a0not<\/em> having an abortion meant that women\u00a0were likely to remain\u00a0“tethered to abusive partners.” (No bias\u00a0there!)\u00a0But\u00a0just because not\u00a0all\u00a0women deal with depression, PTSD, or other problems relatively soon after abortion\u00a0doesn’t mean that some\u00a0women don’t — even years after. Martin ignores this as a possibility.<\/p>\n

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Martin also dismisses research on abortion risks from “abortion opponents,”\u00a0presenting them\u00a0as scare mongers. But statistics\u00a0touting abortion as a safe procedure must be weighed with caution<\/a>, as\u00a0complications may not be accurately reported. Abortions can lead to<\/a> other problems<\/a> later in life<\/a>, which may be inaccurately blamed on other factors. But Martin downplays the idea of abortion complications in general, concluding that laws which hold\u00a0abortion facilities\u00a0and abortionists\u00a0to “especially rigorous standards” aren’t necessary. (She neglects to mention that those “rigorous standards” are followed by the legitimate medical community.) How does Martin reach this conclusion? Again, by referencing<\/a>\u00a0debunked<\/a> studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin again cherrypicks only the most strident pro-abortion research when discussing complication rates for medication abortion\u00a0(which women are often misled<\/a> to believe<\/a> is a safe, simple process<\/a>). Thanks to a study done by Ibis Reproductive Health (funded by the pro-abortion, pro-population<\/a> control Buffett Foundation<\/a>) which touted the safety of RU-486, the Supreme Court of Iowa\u00a0struck down<\/a> the state’s prohibition of telemed medication abortions. And women are the ones who pay the price for this skewed research, promoted by agencies with a money-making agenda.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates in the media, like Martin, prop up biased and flawed pro-abortion research. What’s worse is that in doing so they completely dismiss the real harm many women actually suffer from their abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones, which has posted articles in support of abortion many times before, recently attempted to sway the public into thinking the abortion debate has been “reframed” because of certain cherrypicked research in author\u00a0Nina Martin’s article. 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