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- From: gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Menstrual Extraction and the 5-week limit (Revision)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.032920.23604@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 03:29:20 GMT
- References: <nyikos.721696188@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Nov19.034141.113103@watson.ibm.com>
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- <1992Nov19.034141.113103@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- ><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.
-
- Additional figures published by Dr. Michael J Rosenburg in the American
- Journal of Public Health, summer 1992:
-
- US death rate from pregnancy and childbirth: 10 in 100,000.
-
- US death rate from surgical abortion: .4 in 100,000.
-
- From Population Council of New York:
-
- Death rate from RU-486: 1 in 100,000.
-
- Just FYI.
-
-
- Gordon
- Pro-abortion, Pro-person, Pro-women's-rights and ex-boytoy of Susan, Muriel,
- Cathi, Nora, Jennifer, Sarah, Lynn, Diana (catwoman), Diana (Sorceress), Beth
- "CJ", and Nadja, and married to a goddess among women, and proud of it.
- [space reserved for alternate ex-girlfriends Eric R. and Drieux]
- --
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