This past Sunday's New York Times magazine features an article on an alleged post-abortion traumatic stress syndrome. Warning: it's long, but a good read.
Whether abortion is distasteful (or immoral, whatever flavor you choose bring to it -- I'll state upfront that I am pro-choice and do believe that there are cases where terminating a pregnancy can be a moral choice). But that isn't the point. For me, what is interesting is how far people are willing to go -- even publishing incredibly poor (and somewhat unethical) scientific studies -- in order to fight it. For what other medical procedure would we even tolerate this kind of behavior? What if "scientists" used their own personal beliefs to color research on the effects, physical or psychological, of chemotherapy, of organ transplants, of, God forbid, fertility treatments?
It's a seriously slippery slope, people. How far are we willing to let it go?
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