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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Peter shows his ignorance, once again.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.155251.18791@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 15:52:51 GMT
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- From article <nyikos.725147807@milo.math.scarolina.edu>,
- by nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos):
-
- > In <1992Dec22.010745.13877@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- > mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
-
- >>In article <nyikos.724963465@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
-
- [Lots deleted]
-
- This is Loren writing:
-
- >>>>>Except the fertalized egg will grow into an embryo...adult. There
- >>>>>is a difference between growing into something (fertalized egg ->
- >>>>>Embryo), and being changed into something by outside forces
- >>>>>(unfertalized egg -> fertalized egg)
-
- [Commentary on ability to spell and state of American education omitted
- reluctantly.]
-
- [Deletions]
-
- Mark Cochran is writing here (I think >:-|)
-
- >>>>You statement above, in order to be correct, should read:
- >>>>"Except the fertalized egg [your spelling. I'll be happy if you get
- >>>>the biology correct. Somebody else can undertake to teach you to
- >>>>spell] may, under circumstances which occur for perhaps one out of
- >>>>three fertilized [correct spelling, since it's my word this time...]
- >>>>egg, implant,
-
- >>>Source, please, for the "one out of three" statistic.
-
- >>Any text on obstetrics. Pick one, any one, and read it.
-
- I was curious about this, so I checked my embryology text. Here's
- all I could find:
-
- About 15 per cent of all zygotes result in detectable spontaneous
- abortion, but this estimate is undoubtedly low because the loss of
- zygotes during the first week is thought to be high. The actual
- rate is unknown because the women do not know they are pregnant at
- this early stage.
-
- It has been estimated that from one third to one half of all zygotes
- never survive to form blastocysts and implant. Failure to implant
- may result from a poorly developed endometrium, but probably in many
- cases there are chromosomal abnormalities in the zygote.
-
- From: Keith L. Moore (1983) _Before We Are Born: Basic Embryology and
- Birth Defects, 2nd ed._ pp. 28, 38
-
- I could find no evidence for high rates of spontaneous abortion *after*
- implantation. I suspect that there is no such evidence. Cochran's
- claim that perhaps one third of all zygotes implant is a little
- exaggerated but still in the right (major league) ballpark.
-
- [Much more deleted. You're welcome.]
-
- >>>> and begin the process by which it may (again, against
- >>>>the odds) eventually become an embryo, a fetus,
- >>>
- >>>Source, please, for "against the odds". I've seen this kind of talk
- >>>bandied about for months in talk.abortion, all without a scrap of
- >>>documentation.
- >>>
- >>Any text on obstetrics. Pick one, any one, and read it.
- >
- > Gee, how many pages do I have to read to get the exact statistics, which
- > you haven't even given us a clue on? C'm' on Mark, what are the odds
- > against the implanted BLASTOCYST -- or is it a MORULA, Mark? I know
- > it's not a FERTILIZED EGG, or are you THIS willing to contradict
- > Larry Margolis?? -- eventually becoming (1) an embryo, and (2) a fetus?
-
- I have documented above that the odds against implantation are pretty
- long. I can find no odds for or against the implanted blastocyst
- developing further into an embryo or a fetus. Are you sure this is
- what Cochran was referring to? If so, I join you in requesting more
- information, which I suspect does not exist.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-