the assumptions of the twin method would have to hold for that claim to be justified, but, in any case, seeking an abortion is an action, not a behavior, so it's not a “heritable” trait i.e. there can’t be a genetic disposition to abortion
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I would expect that women predisposed to "mental illness" would also tend to have more abortions
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do you understand what a confound is?
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Yes, do you? It's not the abortions causing the mental illness usually, it's the correlation between traits that lead to more abortions and other negative traits
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Yes, we're talking about traits that lead to both more abortions and more mental illness. Low IQ is one of them.
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what are the variables?
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