In my post about the misleading sex-ed programs being funded with our tax dollars, I didn't get into the misinformation about birth control. Andrew Sullivan has a link to what he calls "a mild and partial debunking" of Rep. Waxman's report.
The debunking consists of two main pieces of "proof" that abortion is harmful. One is a link to an article about the high rate of infertility among women in Russia. The other is a mention of a couple of studies which found that women who had abortions had a higher rate of depression and suicide attempts than women who gave birth.
Read the first article, and you'll find that those women in Russia were victims of a Soviet-era policy to use abortions as birth control. I don't remember hearing great things about the Soviet medical system, either. Now that normal birth control methods are available and encouraged, the abortion rate is dropping.
The second point is harder for me argue, because I don't really know how to read and interpret medical studies (and not all the papers are available online.) But it seems to me that a woman who seeks an abortion because of health problems, or relationship troubles, or just generally feeling she's not ready to have a child, might already be somewhat depressed. To feel like you're ready for a child, you have to be in a good place in your life, no?
There's no evidence of causality here, and plenty of other explanations.
However, for those who are eager for evidence that abortion is bad bad bad, and this site seems to belong to one of them, these questions don't seem to come up.
