User:Ppribonic/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Abortion and mental health

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because the different stand points of Abortion interest me. I also wanted to learn more about how having or not having an Abortion can effect someones mental health. This article matters because women who would be interested in getting an Abortion deserve to know about the mental health risks it can have on them. They also deserve to know how their mental health would be if they carried out their pregnancy full term with the initial intent to abort the fetus. My preliminary impression was that it was a little hard to follow and some parts of it were not said through a neutral point of view.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of this Article was okay. If I was just to read the first sentence, I would assume this article was not from a neutral point of view. I would assume this article was strictly about how "Abortion posses no greater mental health risks than carrying an unintended pregnancy to term". Abortion and mental health. Other than that, The lead is very detailed and every point said, is hit in the following paragraphs. The content covered all of the important factors of what the author was talking about. The points were very back and fourth between how getting or not getting an Abortion can effect one's mental health. Some points were biased, but then they were backed up with the opposing side to the argument. Some of the points seem to be coming directly from the author themselves rather than information they found about the article. Like I said, majority of this article was from a neutral, researched based point of view, but some things had me questioning weather or not the author was on one side rather than the other though. The article pulled reliable sources to use when it came to the statistics of what was being discussed. Some sources seemed a little off to me though, especially the one being anti-abortion. This seemed a little weird because I believe it brought bias to the article. This link was said to speak about the term "post-abortion syndrome" which the author went to explain that it was not a real syndrome. I don't think this part of the article was needed since it is not a real thing that happens after an abortion takes place and this is also a link written from people who have an anti-abortion standpoint, which brings bias into this article. The overall writing of this article was very clear. If I was reading this from a stand point where I had no idea about abortions and the mental health risks they could, or could not have, I would be able to read this very clearly and understand what the points trying to get across are. When I went along to read the talk page of this article, the main thing I saw were people advocating change for this article. A lot of people were pointing out what was wrong in the article and how it could harm one standpoint rather than the other. There were a lot of people who noticed the same things I did like how it can be portrayed as misleading. A lot of editors, (including myself) also saw the lead to be very controversial and bias. Majority of the Talk page was not very positive about how the article was written, and that there needed to be a significant amount of change. The overall strengths of this article would probably be the way it was written. It was very easy to follow and was broken up into groups from scientific evidence to the legal and political views. This article could simply be improved by removing the significant amounts of misleading, and bias information. As a women, reading this article could honestly cause anxiety about getting an Abortion if someone is thinking about it. If a women wanted to genuinely know the effects Abortions could have on their mental health, this article would probably make them not want to get one, which isn't supposed to happen while reading a wikipedia article.