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Portland OB-GYN new memoir ‘Labor’ highlights abortion access and providing medical care in a mobile health clinic ⁠5%

By Malya Fass⁠0%

7/17/2026, 1:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion and Anecdotal, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 32.1% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 100 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 20.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠5% (20,803 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.00% of the article peer group.

Mary Fariba Afsari is an OB-GYN based in Portland, and she’s written a new memoir, called “Labor: One Woman’s Work.” 
She tells the story of her practice and why she chose to take a 31-foot RV and turn it into a mobile women’s health clinic. 
She also weaves her personal narrative with the story of her grandmother in Iran, who died as a young woman from an illegal abortion. 
We’ll talk with Afsari about the book and her work. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 4.7%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 4.9%Associated Press: 6.2%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 3.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 14.8%Malya Fass: 4.9%Associated Press: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion14.8%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.8%Malya Fass: 4.9%Associated Press: 1.2%Anecdotal14.8%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 2.6%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Malya Fass: 0.0%Associated Press: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 32.1%Malya Fass: 10.7%Associated Press: 0.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…32.1%

162 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker43%attributed speech93writer words
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Writer's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageMary Fariba Afsari • 20 words • 0.0% coverageMary Fariba Afsari • 25 words • 0.0% coverageMary Fariba Afsari • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 52 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mary Fariba Afsari

35%flagged-word coverage
69 attributed words100% of attributed speech56% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -55.9 ptsWriter: 55.9%Mary Fariba Afsari: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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