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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:17:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.131718.15690@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <C015K3.Ip4@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <C01HI5.MGB@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- In article <C01HI5.MGB@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec29.174213.2484@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- > mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >
- > > In article <C015K3.Ip4@ra.nrl.navy.mil> psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow)
- > writes:
- > > >Guess what Muriel? There were fewer abortion related deaths back then
- > than
- > > >now -
- > > Care to provide evidence to support this? Here, try this:
- > > Total morbidity for D&C and Suction abortions: 8.8 complications per
- > > 1000 abortions, or 0.88%.
- > > Total mortality for D&C and suction abortions: 4.0 per 100,000
- > > abortions, or 0.004%.
- > > Compare that to complication rates as high as 20% from illegal
- > > abortions.
- > > (Source: _Maternal Child Care_ 14th edition,
- > > Reeder/Mastroianni/Martin)
- > Unfortunately, as you so deftly ignore, the total number of women killed
- > is greater now that abortion is so ubiquitous. But I know, its not the
- > women you care about, its the amazing effeciency and precision of todays
- > techniques.
-
- You still have provided no source for this assertion, nor
- have you responded to other questions regarding number of women
- killed from childbirth, relative mortality affects of abortion
- and childbirth, etc. You do acknowledge, it seems, that any
- change in the total numbers of abortion-related fatalities,
- assuming you are speaking of legal abortions, can be attributed
- to the much greater number of legal abortions. I think you
- might also include information on the rate of fatality from
- illegal abortions as a percentage of the whole. Oh, and you still
- don't explain what you meant when you spoke earlier of "then"
- and "now." I presumed you meant "then" as "pre-Roe v Wade"
- and "now" as "post-Roe v Wade."
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
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