16 September 2006

How to make statistics lie

The good people at Pro Life Action tell us that contraception is not the answer as according to their survey 54% of women who have abortions were using birth control at the time they got pregant.

What does this tell us? Absolutely nothing.

Did we know that contraception fails 1-2% of the time already? Yes.

What would it take so convince us that contraception doesn't work? Well a comparison of abortion rates among women on contraception and women whou would have been on contraception except for the test. I suspect that this would be unethical by even my standards.

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