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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Menstrual Extraction and the 5-week limit (Revision)
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.034141.113103@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:41:41 GMT
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- In <nyikos.721696188@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- > [...]
- >I first learned about it from the bestseller (more than a million copies
- >sold) _Everywoman_, by Derek Llewellyn-Jones [Faber and Faber, London, 1978]:
- >
- > ...Large numbers of women have been treated by 'menstrual
- > regulation', and the reported results show that only one woman in
- > every 250,000 treated has died--a rate three times less than the
- > deaths which follow an injection of penicillin! [p. 135]
-
- Note the date of publication [1978]. According to the Alan Guttmacher
- Institute, published in "Facts in Brief: Abortion in the United States,"
- The risk of death associated with abortion decreased
- more than fivefold from 1973 to 1985, with 3.4 deaths per
- 100,000 legal abortions in 1973 to 0.4 in 1985.
-
- Note that the 1985 death rate is the same as the rate given for
- menstrual extraction. How then do you conclude:
- >it is so much better for the WOMAN.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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