#In a shocking admission, Planned Parenthood recently acknowldeged what the anti-abortion camp has been insisting for years: Nine out of ten women who have
#"safe and legal" abortions suffer from abortion-induced traumas. "A number of
#anti-choice studies and surveys (including the Reardon/WIC Study and the Grant
#Survey) have shown that the incidence of post-procedural trauma for abortion
#clients may be as high as 91 percent of all cases," says Planned Parenthood.
#"While recent unpublished reports from the Alan Guttmacher Institute [Planned
#Parenthood's research division] indicate that the scope of the problem may have
#been accurately tabulated in these studies, the effect of those same anti-
#choice forces in creating the trauma in the first place has not yet been
#effectively measured." * In other words: We admit that nine out of ten women
#who have abortions are traumatized by the experience...but the pro-lifers
#are to blame.
#
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#*Planned Parenthood's "Department of Education 3-Year Plan and Long Range
#Program Goals, 1990-1993," page 29.
I guess there is some hope for Holtsinger's cause, after all, since
some people will evidentally believe anything.
If one reads the original study, one sees that the PP paper
discusses that some studies funded by anti-abortion groups
are not accurately tabulated. The quote cited in the
"New Dimensions" piece is referring to the fact that
the numbers cited in Reardon's survery of WEBA members
were apparently accurately tabulated. This in no way
implies that PP accepts these results as generalizable to
the entire population of women who have had abortions.
(Most thinking people realize that members of a group
called Women Exploited by Abortion can never be called
an unbiased sample.) It merely says that Reardon didn't