Pro-reality bias

When it comes to accurate and intelligent analysis of the psychological impact of abortion, who ya gonna believe? The American Psychological Association?

"There is no credible evidence that a single elective abortion of an unwanted pregnancy in and of itself causes mental health problems for adult women, according to a draft report released Tuesday by a task force of the American Psychological Association."

...or the drooling, shrieking fetus fetishists at the "Institute for Integrated Social Analysis"? (The name gets top marks for creativity.)

As soon as the APA press release was published, you just knew that anti-choice nitwits would start coming up with reasons not to believe the APA's findings. That's all good and well -- there's nothing wrong with questioning studies, and *heaven knows* I'm as opposed to biased research as anyone. But if "pro-life insiders" thought the APA's research methodology was problematic, why weren't they screaming about it months ago? In fact, anti-choicers have been waiting for the APA's study with hyperventilating anticipation -- the bitching only started when they found out that things weren't swinging their way. From which we can safely conclude:

(1) They don't really care about bias, as long as they like the results, or

(2) Allegations of bias are bullshit, based on lame complaints like "there weren't any pro-lifers on the panel". Well, no shit Sherlock. Like they'd have anything of value to add, given that they lift their "information" from propaganda websites like this.

The APA's research probably is biased: it has a "pro-reality" bias in that they managed to keep squealing fetus fetishists from fucking it up completely. Certainly my own non-scientific, anecdotal evidence supports their findings. Negative psychological impact? Hell, I was doing cartwheels on my way out of the clinic. If that's negative psychological impact, I'll take it.

Stumbled upon

Searching for something else, I happened to stumble over this letter the One & Only Dr. Roy dispatched to the Globe & Mail:


One point of interest, if you please -- Dr. Roy says:

"There aren't many third-trimester abortions because physicians realize that abortions in the third trimester are tantamount to murder, and refuse to do them."

While Dr. Roy is probably arguing in favour of a law, his statement above is one of the very reasons we don't need a law: self-policing.

Apart from the "murder" hyperbole, I can't wait to drop that little gem the next time some half-bright halfwit tries to argue that not having an abortion law means abortions being done right up to the last day of the third trimester. "But one of your own people says..."

How mudfortunate.

Gluttons for Punishment

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! What fucking idiots!!!

Oh no! The MASSIVE POLL is getting POLED by the Canadian media! (Thanks to pro-abortion bloggers!)

Why won't the media talk about the Massive Poll? Well let's run it down here...

1. Because there's no data detailing the poll's methodology.

2. Because the question asked in the poll was biased, undermining the poll's credibility from Square One.

3. Because it took DAYS to find any information on KLRVU, the company who conducted the "poll". The information had to be dug up by bloggers, and we still have NO IDEA how Campaign Life even found KLRVU, given that it was for all intents & purposes nonexistent until last Thursday.

4. Because the more we've found out, the less legitimate the "pollster" looks -- it's a phone spam company. Phone spam, no less!

5. Because the one MSM-type person who's actually talked about the MASSIVE POLL, someone who'd normally support the poll if it was legit, thinks it's just as hinky as we do!

6. Because it doesn't matter anyway! Two real polls, done by real polling companies, were taken earlier this month, and they both had the same result: the vast majority of Canadians (2/3) are okay with Dr. M's Order of Canada. The MASSIVE POLL doesn't change that, or even effectively challenge it.

But hey: if the MASSIVE POLL's supporters want to push the issue and force the MSM to have a closer look at it, that absolutely works for me!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Buckets explains how KLRVU explains why you shouldn't believe their poll.