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Title: World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part IV: Piling Error upon Error.
Publication: National Right to Life News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: National Right to Life Committee, Inc.
Volume: 30 Issue: 5 Page: 12Distributed by Thompson Gale
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In our previous sections, we have seen how biases and inherent weaknesses can corrupt the collection and projection of world abortion data, especially in developing countries lacking national health data collection systems. Hospital studies, we explained, may be limited and non-representative. Community surveys and mortality studies extrapolate assumptions that may be invalid. And so-called "expert studies" may be the product of individuals or groups with pro-abortion agendas whose experiences are atypical.