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World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part IV: Piling Error upon Error.
In our previous sections, we have seen how biases and inherent weaknesses can corrupt the collection and projection of world abortion data, especially in developing countries lacking national health data collection systems. Hospital studies, we explained, may be limited and non-representative. Community surveys and mortality studies extrapolate assumptions that may be invalid. And so-called "expert studies" may be the product of individuals or groups with pro-abortion agendas whose experiences are atypical.
What happens, however, when these mistakes and false assumptions are piled on top of one another and then inflated yet again? This month's excerpt will look ...
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- Hospitalisations following unsafe abortions in 13 developing countries.(ROUND...
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Source: HighBeam Research, World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part IV: Piling Error upon Error.