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One more rhetorical nail in the coffin.  Roe is toast.  It’s only a matter of time.  (And the sooner the better!)

This from a pro-life “news” organization.  Omigod, really, what pure hooey.  Did you even both to look at the report yourself before printing what this “news” organization purports as facts.

You can’t even find any discussion on abortion in this report.  According to the report, if you had even bothered to read the summary isn’t even about abortion as you allege in your article. 

Boy but you will snag on to anything if it even has the most tenuous connection to your pro-life stance.  Just do a search for the word abortion in this over 500 page report. What did you find?  Not any substantive discussion of your point in your article.  The way you write your article you make it sound as if the report was about abortion and premature births.

How dishonest! Nice try, though!

DD, a miscarriage has risks for the next pregnancy.  Never having been pregnant also carries the risk of miscarriage.  There are many many factors including ethnicity, age, heredity etc. just to name a few.

My point was that the gist of the article you wrote about was not about risks of abortion on future pregnancies.  It was indeed misleading for the pro-life “news” web, to promote is as such and then you continue that dishonesty by the title of your article and by this statement your wrote:

The National Academies of Science has recently completed the report Abortion Linked to Premature Birth Problems which indicates a sharp rise in premature births since abortion became legal.

You quoted the title of the National Academies of Science as being “Abortion linked to Premature Birth Problems.”.  That is false, a cursory check of the title of the report had you even clicked on the report is entitled” Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences and Prevention.”

The attempt to tie the increase to abortions is simply a flat out lie.  Again, a cursory review of the summary of the report would have given you the accurate information.

You were wrong to cite this report as you did and you continued justification of the misuse gives no credibility to this so-call news organization since it misuses a legitimate report.  The only one delusionary here is you and your cause that you will use this report and twist it to say something it simply doesn’t.

And then you try to obsfuscate by changing the subject to other studies. So since you chose to cite Hannity I’ll up you with Planned Parenthood’s :http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_misc.htm

P: Despite all your leftie twisting and turning, you can’t escape the big glaring truth: ABORTION KILLS!!

So do guns, so do car accidents, so do wars.

So do guns, so do car accidents, so do wars.

Guns don’t kill. People kill.

But wait a minute - you’re comparing abortion with wars? Hahahaha. Thanks for the bit of honesty.

I think we can all agree that when it comes to findings in scientific publications it is best (if possible) to read the publication itself instead of the reportage in the press about those findings. 

So does anyone have a link to the publication that this news report is based on?

Ok, I found the link in the news report; here it is: http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/35/975/pretermbirth.pdf

P: wars, guns and car accidents kill those who make poor choices.  Abortion kills the most innocent and blameless among us.  Nice try at leftie spin, though.  You just don’t have the truth on your side.

I looked through the report and it basically argues that the causes aren’t well understood, though it does mentions things like hypertension, diabetes, stress, infections, etc.  I searched the .pdf for the use of the term abortion, and it came back with 0 hits.  To make sure that my search feature was working properly I had it search for a known word - namely diabetes - and that search returned one hit.

robert108,

P: wars, guns and car accidents kill those who make poor choices.

In all cases?  What “poor choice” did Anne Frank make?  Should she have chosen not to be born in the Netherlands?

Also, for the sake of thoroughness I searched for the word “abort,” and got no hits.

Who cares whether abortions lead to premature birth problems? What does that have to do with its legality? Hamburgers lead to heart problems--should we ban those too?

Make the pro-life case on its own merits.

Dave, you miss the point.  The absolute dishonesty of the poster of this article linking it to his conclusion that the article shows abortions to cause miscarriages when the article did nothing of the kind and wasn’t even about what the poster was saying.  Dishonesty, pure and simple.