The US Government Has Paid Anti-Abortion Activists $658,000 for ‘Expert Testimony’
According to a new investigation by RH Reality Check, announced Thursday, a network of “False Witnesses” has spent years building an industry around propagating false research and bunk science.
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“They are in the business of manufacturing doubt,” said RH Reality Check’s Vice President of Investigations and Research Sharona Coutts in a teleconference with reporters (as well as her co-author Sofia Resnick) Thursday. “What we found is that collectively, since 2010, these 14 individuals have earned nearly $658,000 from their so-called ‘expert testimony’ for attorneys general. And in many cases, the testimony was thrown out by judges. But they continue to benefit from the False Witnesses industry.”
And that industry—professionally testifying at trials and legislative hearings—creates a record of seemingly legitimate discourse about abortion that makes it appear as if the medical community can’t agree on the subject. In fact, every major medical association has said repeatedly that abortion is one of the safest medical procedures a person can have.
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Abortion and Long-Term Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Evidence - ContraceptionABSTRACT:
Claims that women who have elective abortions will experience psychological distress have fueled much of the recent debate on abortion. It has been argued that the emotional sequelae of abortion may not occur until months or years after the event. Despite unclear evidence on such a phenomenon, adverse mental health outcomes of abortion have been used as a rationale for policy-making. We systematically searched for articles focused on the potential association between abortion and long-term mental health outcomes published between January 1, 1989 and August 1, 2008 and reviewed 21 studies that met the inclusion criteria… . .
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