WECARE for “World Expert Consortium for Abortion Research and Education” is going to be very useful, indeed.
Today, WECARE posts an assessment of the “abortion is safer than childbirth” study.
Excellent assessment, worth reading in full. It gives a sense of just how politicized the research around abortion is.
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Yes, the site is very useful. Even more so since Priscilla K. Coleman has also been quoted by pro-abortion people for pointing out problems with studies used to support the Pro-Life position.
http://www.equityfeminism.com/articles/tag/priscilla-coleman/
This woman is clearly more interested in the truth, whatever it is, than an agenda.
I wish I could spend my time fact-checking and crunching numbers for the pro-life cause. One of the things I love about your site is all the references to hard data.
In fact, Coleman’s work has been thoroughly trashed by real scientists, not necessary pro-choicers.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/12/bad_science_in_the_british_jou.php
But, I guess you get what you pay for.
In fact, Coleman’s work has been thoroughly trashed by real scientists, not necessarily pro-choicers.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/12/bad_science_in_the_british_jou.php
But I guess you get what you pay for.
Sorry about that double post. I thought I caught change from ‘necessary’ to ‘necessarily’ before it went through.
Since fern has no scientific credentials, I assume she is using the term “real scientist” to mean someone who agrees with her ideology, and also happens to do science.
Hm, my bad, I thought people would know who P.Z.Myers is.
How about a whole bunch of real scientists arguing in the pages of the same journal, trashing her methodology, her logic and her bias.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/199/3/180.short
Only two ‘scientists’ defend her. Interestingly, one is a co-author of hers, the other is published by the de Veber Institute, a ‘prolife’ fake science org.
http://www.deveber.org/what-we-do
Seriously, you people want to debate, you need to stop supporting B.A.D. (biased, agenda-driven) science. There is no abortion-breast cancer link; there is no abortion-insanity link; there is no abortion-infertility link. And to keep claiming that there are just means you will be dismissed by thinking people.
Do you seriously believe, as Coleman states, that fully 10% of ALL mental illness is directly linked to abortion? Really?
Why can’t you make your arguments without relying on bogus ‘science’?
There you go using that term “real scientist” again. My comment was really about *your* credibility, fern. Unlike you, the people who run the de Veber institute have sound scientific credentials, and it is really quite pathetic how you attempt to dismiss those credentials just because their conclusions do not align with your blind ideology.
Ok. Of all the anti-choice blogs I’ve visited, this one is the sanest. I’ve tried to engage, but if I’m going to get attacked for no reason (Did you even try to read the links, Dan?), I’m outta here. Good luck with that ‘no abortion by choice’ dealie, if you can’t/won’t engage in a civil manner.
You aren’t really trying to engage when you use a term like “real scientists” to refer to those with whom you agree on matters of ideology, while conveniently dismissing other scientists as “fake”.
By the way, I am only an occasional commenter here, with no connection to the blog owners. Don’t blame them if I have offended you.