The Court is ignoring science

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The Court is dominated by Originalists. If the science wasn't known to George Washington then it doesn't apply.

> To that end, the Turnaway Study followed almost 1000 women across the country for 5 years to see how having an abortion, or being denied one, affected their physical health, mental health, finances, relationships, and children.

For completeness, shouldn't the study also have followed 1000 children for 5 years and asked them whether they would rather have been aborted? By designing your experiment to specifically deny the humanity of one group of test subjects, of course "science" can give you any result you want.

You can divide those 1000 women into two groups: those who had abortions and those who were denied them. Please explain how you divide the 1000 children into two equal groups of aborted and survived and compare each group.

> Please explain how you divide the 1000 children into two equal groups

The fact that the scientists are seemingly prepared to allow 500 of their test subjects to die, and then use that as an excuse not to consider their outcomes, is precisely the methodological problem I am complaining about.

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