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To: Conscience of a Conservative
"Requesting pregnancy termination."

Requesting pregnancy termination is not defined by "when". On seeing this study, one could be requesting termination.

I don't doubt your experience regarding 'criteria'. I'm saying that the document in question doesn't say that all criteria must be met.

Finally, 'fetal anomaly' is so broad as to be the equivalent of Mitt Romney's 'health of mother'.

20 posted on 04/17/2015 7:51:50 AM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins
Requesting pregnancy termination is not defined by "when". On seeing this study, one could be requesting termination.

Theoretically, that is true. Someone who was not otherwise planning to have an abortion could hear about this study, and could then decide to have an abortion in order to participate in the study. But that is highly, highly unlikely. The clear intent of this study is to include people who are already seeking an abortion. It's a study run by a hospital, so they don't need to go out and "recruit" people to have abortions - they will simply ask women who come in for an abortion if they want to participate in the study.

I don't doubt your experience regarding 'criteria'. I'm saying that the document in question doesn't say that all criteria must be met.

The point is, these documents never (or almost never) say that all inclusion criteria must be met, because the people who run clinical studies understand that the list of "inclusion criteria" is the list of criteria that must be met. Click around on the clinical trials site you linked, look at other studies - they all look like this.

Finally, 'fetal anomaly' is so broad as to be the equivalent of Mitt Romney's 'health of mother'.

Well, yes. That's true, and that's a function of abortion laws being way, way too liberalized. Of course almost anything can be squeezed into "fetal anomaly."

22 posted on 04/17/2015 7:58:48 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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