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  1. Xref: sparky talk.abortion:52843 alt.abortion.inequity:6167
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!amdcad!weitek!nadja
  3. From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
  5. Subject: Re: You want to talk about nature?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181423.26134@jetsun.weitek.COM>
  7. Date: 23 Dec 92 18:14:23 GMT
  8. References: <1992Dec20.232538.20849@rotag.mi.org> <1992Dec22.011529.943@jetsun.weitek.COM> <1h6ga9INNbm1@gap.caltech.edu>
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  12. In article <1h6ga9INNbm1@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
  13. >nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf) writes:
  14.  
  15. >>Ummm... What do you mean? Elaborately decorated abortion sticks were not
  16. >>uncommon among so-called primitive people.
  17.  
  18. >Neither was maternal death.
  19.  
  20. Ironically, it was far less common than among primitive agriculturalists,
  21. and so-called modern civilization up until the 1950s. Fewer infections,
  22. fewer pregnancies to weaken the structures, fewer bad effects of diseases
  23. such as rickets and rheumatic fever...
  24.