Abortion has risks, whatever the research says - The Times 19th August 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Even if the dangers to mental health are slight, how can anyone object to women being counselled about them? It's probably true to say that there is no such thing as entirely objective, unloaded research on abortion. Each successive academic study (and there have been quite a few) about whether abortion carries risks to the women who have them is instantly seized on by people seeking to tighten the law or trying to liberalise it. Value-free abortion research may be a nice idea, but there's no such thing as value-free researchers, however good their methodology.

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