Meet the “experts” using bogus science to prop up nationwide abortion restrictions

[Triana]

A group of 14 individuals have made more than $600,000 offering their medically discredited "expertise"

There is no such thing as “post-abortion syndrome.” It is not a medical diagnosis, and has been discredited by the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. But this faux-mental illness nonetheless found its way into Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in a 2007 case upholding a ban on an abortion procedure called dilation and extraction. (The law in question, the so-called Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, was another piece of legislation that rejected medical accuracy in favor of messaging from the National Right to Life Committee.)

Despite conceding that the court had found “no reliable data” that abortion causes women emotional distress, Kennedy argued that it was “self-evident” that “some women” who have abortions would suffer “severe depression” and other negative mental health outcomes. Because Kennedy couldn’t point to a credible scientific study to support his position, he instead cited the work of an electrical engineer named David C. Reardon.

This same kind of bogus science has only further poisoned the public discourse, shaped policy in state legislatures and influenced court opinions as lawmakers across the country advance an ever increasing number of abortion restrictions. An investigative reporting project released Thursday by RH Reality Check took an in-depth look at 14 men and women who, like Reardon, have established a powerful racket as antiabortion “experts,” each paid handsomely to offer up pseudoscience and outright lies to prop up abortion bans.

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These men and women have testified before countless state legislatures and courts to defend abortion restrictions ranging from TRAP laws to pre-viability abortion bans. Among the misinformation spread by these “experts” are claims that abortion is a dangerous procedure (it is safer than a colonoscopy), abortion causes breast cancer (discredited by the National Cancer Institute), fetuses can “feel” pain at 20 weeks (discredited by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and others) and abortion causes mental illness (discredited by the American Psychological Association and others).

THE REST:

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/meet_the_experts_using_bogus_science_to_prop_up_nationwide_abortion_restrictions/

[GreatGazoo]

1. Kick.

Plus, meet these "women's rights experts":



http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/08/04/hilarious-photos-couple-trolls-anti-abortion-protesters-with-way-funnier-signs.html

[Ilsa]

4. I wish he had another sign pointing out that they

Think they are medical experts.

[Ilsa]

2. It's probably a hormone shift that would also cause baby blues

or postpartum depression after giving birth if they continued the pregnancy. In other words, pregnancy is the cause, not abortion.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Since when have these man-childs actually ever cared about a woman's depression!?

All they know how to do is ridicule women with depression (which is usually caused by the man-childs ugly behavior in the first place).