Why would anyone care whether a woman has an abortion or not?

[LittleBlue]

107. Don't you think that measure is a bit elitist?

I mean, shouldn't a psychologist examine each subject's mental health (and mental health history?) rather than a questionnaire that deems wealthy, educated women with fewer children more mentally healthy than other women?

That study seems to use an extremely lazy guideline for mental health.

The irony in this is that the solid majority of white women in Virginia who voted for anti-choice candidates, to their own detriment, will be deemed more mentally fit than the 90% of black women who voted sanely for pro-choice candidates, all merely because black women are underprivileged. Again, to me that is extremely elitist. They should have just published the study as "rich women who have fewer children cope with abortion much better than less wealthy women with more children", that would have been more accurate. Instead they make this illogical leap from the characteristics of wealth to mental health. I don't find this measure reasonable at all, and some could argue it's racist or at least elitist.