Monday, April 06, 2015

What's Wrong with This Survey?

The headline from Yahoo! Health:

What The 18-35 Set REALLY Thinks About Marriage, Abortion, And Birth Control

Seven percent of millenial women say they’ve had an unintended pregnancy, but 42 percent say they have a close friend or family member who has had an unintended pregnancy.
Similarly, 8 percent of millenial women report having had an abortion, but 36 percent say they have a close friend or family member who has had one before.

So we're supposed to believe that... large numbers of millennial women are aborting intended pregnancies? What?

If 1 in 3 women have abortions during their reproductive lifetime... should the numbers be higher than that? I realize that women older than 35 get abortions but... not at the same rate as women in the 20-30 age range.

Perhaps a number of women couldn't admit to having abortions? Hmm....