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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Measurable Effects of Abortion?
The ladies at After Abortion have linked to a study in the Southern Medical Journal (2002 v. 95(8) P. 834) entitled: Deaths Associated With Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women. It purports to provide evidence that women who have an abortion have a higher risk of death by various causes (natural, violent, suicide, etc.) than women who have not had an abortion but have delivered children.
While I want to believe this study, I must point out that although the authors state that their results are significant and provide acceptable p-values, their 95% confidence intervals don’t seem to agree. Maybe I’m missing something (probably the case), but I fail to see how or where. If anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them.
Update:
All right, all right...we're all entitled to our little mix-ups. I just realized that (brace yourselves =)) I was in error. Just to set the record straight, a 95% confidence interval indicates significance if it does not include '1'. I would like to thank Emily, of After Abortion fame, for getting back to me on this topic.
So, the upshot is that I find this study to be quite interesting. If this pans out, it would seem that pro-choicers will have to come to terms with this increased risk. Most likely they'll claim that counseling will take care of this, and they may be right. But I wonder if there are organic causes behind this increased risk. I'll have to look a little closer at the available data.
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The ladies at After Abortion have linked to a study in the Southern Medical Journal (2002 v. 95(8) P. 834) entitled: Deaths Associated With Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women. It purports to provide evidence that women who have an abortion have a higher risk of death by various causes (natural, violent, suicide, etc.) than women who have not had an abortion but have delivered children.
While I want to believe this study, I must point out that although the authors state that their results are significant and provide acceptable p-values, their 95% confidence intervals don’t seem to agree. Maybe I’m missing something (probably the case), but I fail to see how or where. If anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them.
Update:
All right, all right...we're all entitled to our little mix-ups. I just realized that (brace yourselves =)) I was in error. Just to set the record straight, a 95% confidence interval indicates significance if it does not include '1'. I would like to thank Emily, of After Abortion fame, for getting back to me on this topic.
So, the upshot is that I find this study to be quite interesting. If this pans out, it would seem that pro-choicers will have to come to terms with this increased risk. Most likely they'll claim that counseling will take care of this, and they may be right. But I wonder if there are organic causes behind this increased risk. I'll have to look a little closer at the available data.
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