You didn't include the full text of what you quoted, which makes your quote and comment dishonest and misleading. I put in bold the main reasons. You're also taking it out of context.
@JonhathonBaxster you've got it wrong, the whole post. I was criticizing your sourcing for your own sake. Your links I made the post in response to were all blog post opinion pieces - the actual sources were below the footnotes on those articles.
You tried to invalidate the entire study because of a simple opinion.
No, I was criticizing your sourcing, not the actual source. I've already sourced the Guttmacher surveys in this thread myself, along with other users.
However, I consider the "women base their decisions largely on their ability to maintain economic stability and to care for the children they already have" as a convenience, which I've already stated in my previous posts what qualifies as a convenience.
I know. That's why I specifically addressed it (from my previous response):
Now, that doesn't mean you can't source the guttmacher surveys and draw your own conclusions. You may disagree with Guttmacher's assessment here. But when your "source" is drawing a different conclusion than you from the same data, it seriously weakens the entire point of you sourcing someone.
...the entire point of you sourcing someone.
^^I'm reiterating to make myself clear, not to bash you.
Point being, if you want to use a source to back up an argument, googling and throwing in the first links you see is likely going to poison the well of information. You've got to check the sources from the blogs if you want an actually reliable source. If you're sourcing something that was
said or an opinion from the blog post, that's fine. The links you posted didn't help your post - they held it back.
If you actually wanted to discuss why you would draw different conclusions from Guttmacher Institute's findings, then that third link would be completely relevant for you to post here and we can see what you mean.
If you want us to look at numbers, it'd best serve you to post the source of those numbers. Again, I've sourced the Guttmacher surveys myself.
I'm not commenting on your take at all right now, just your sourcing.
Like I said previously, easy to lump opinions together in a thread this big. You were mistaken in your interpretation of my post, though.