Article Review In the article “Evaluating Abortion-Care Programs: Old Challenges, New Directions,” Janie Benson, the author, sheds light on the effects that poor evaluations have on abortion care clinics and addresses new ways to evaluate programs, positively promoting safe-abortions clinics for women. Benson states that her “objectives are first to provide a conceptual framework for evaluation of the essential outcomes of the abortion related programs, and second to make recommendations for improvements in infrastructure, resource availability, and political commitment to support evaluation of abortion programs”(pg. 190). Benson uses quotes and paraphrasing from other sources to help build her argument. She first addressed the “conceptual framework for evaluating programs“, which means that women are given proper abortion and post abortion care will be less likely to need further care or die(pg. 190). Benson used studies in Bangladesh which showed that there might have been a correlation between the death rate of women, who died from abortion complications, and how policy provisions may have lowered the numbers(pg. 191). She uses the same method throughout …show more content…
Benson’s approach to support her thesis was to state her ideas which were the outcomes of abortion affected by social, economic, political, and legal concepts; then she provide what little evidence there was available from studies and surveys from all over the globe(pg. 191). Later, she uses more survey’s showing that practicing safe abortion may reduce many complications, allow women a choice, and prevents future unwanted pregnancies (pg.190). Using the limited data available, she made huge observations and recommendations. The cost of not statistical data is that it is hare to make recommendation without uncontested evidence; also her recommendations could change overtime, as more data may become available altering her