I really don't think that 50% of first-world children (you know, the ones who can afford to read the HP books -- and can READ) are 'abortion survivors'. Even if there was an abortion in the family. As usual, the anti-choice people are making an assumption that all abortions are done for the same reason: people want to kill babies. (And I'm making an assumption that all anti-choice people are the same, but I am so sick of this black-and-white mentality which has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with punishing women for having sex and possibly even enjoying it.)
Also, I think there's a very good chance that a mother would not tell her child that she had an abortion prior to that child being conceived, if she could at all help it.
The authors of this article (and the pseudo-scientist who came up with PASS) are talking about such a minuscule subset of any given first-world population, if they are even talking about any people at all. They've decided that THIS is the reason for the HP phenomenon?
What a disgusting term and a disgusting hypothesis.
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Date: 2007-09-06 01:51 pm (UTC)Also, I think there's a very good chance that a mother would not tell her child that she had an abortion prior to that child being conceived, if she could at all help it.
The authors of this article (and the pseudo-scientist who came up with PASS) are talking about such a minuscule subset of any given first-world population, if they are even talking about any people at all. They've decided that THIS is the reason for the HP phenomenon?
What a disgusting term and a disgusting hypothesis.