"Morning-after" mockery. (Correction, Please!).

ITEM: A December Knight Ridder report in the Tallahassee Democrat stated: "Emergency contraception, or the 'morning-after pill,' is playing a growing role in reducing abortions in the U.S. and may account for almost half of the recent decline in abortions, according to a new study by a leading reproductive-health research center."

CORRECTION: This study, by the research arm of Planned Parenthood, mocks scientific analysis and extrapolates from extremely dubious assumptions. The Alan Guttmacher Institute released its findings despite not knowing how many women were even taking the "morning-after pill." The researchers also admitted it was "unknown" what proportion "of pregnancies among method users were due to inconsistent or incorrect contraception use and what proportion were accounted for by method failure."

Moreover, the report's authors claimed, as noted by Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America, "that nearly every woman whose pregnancy continues after taking the morning-after pill would go on to have an abortion. It is ludicrous for anyone to assume to know what decisions an entire group of women would make -- particularly one of the most difficult, heart-rending, life-changing decisions any person can make."