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- From: hsims@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
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- Date: 30 DEC 92 16:37:19 GMT
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- In a previous article, psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow) wrote:
- >In article <1992Dec29.175100.20873@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- >decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- >
- >Yes Dean I can support my assertion, I will provide you with excerpts from
- >a Planned Parenthood official, census data, a gynological journal. I
- >don't have them here, but I at least want to reply. I feel very safe in
- >assuming that no matter what statistic I have, you and a host of others in
- >this group can cast a negative spin.
- >
- >Even if you can come up with a conflicting set of statistics (and by THEN
- >I mean, prior to Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton), it still wouldn't change
- >the fact the the 'coat hanger/back alley ' ploy is a red herring. If I'm
- >wrong, I 'm not off by much, not enough to warrent the slaughter of
- >millions of children to spare the life of a relatively low number of women
- >who would choose to break the law. This is the REAL issue. The sad part
- >is that the pro-aborts present as fact that thousands of women will surely
- >die if abortion is outlawed. There is nothing to support this whatsoever.
-
- There is plenty of evidence to support this. Ever hear of Romania? Check
- out the October 1992 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (volume
- 82, issue number 10). An article titled "The Public Health Consequences of
- Restricted Induced Abortion - Lessons From Romania" begins on page 1328.
-
- Some of the findings:
-
- "In the 23 years of its enforcement, the antiabortion law in Romania
- resulted in over 10,000 deaths of women from unsafe abortion".
-
- "For the decade 1980 to 1989, the average Romanian maternal mortality
- rate was 150 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Many women
- obtained abortion illegally, and every year approximately 500
- otherwise-healthy women of childbearing age died from postabortion
- hemorrhage, sepsis, abdominal poisoning, and trauma".
-
- And in response to your comment about "... not enough to warrent the slaughter
- of millions of children to spare the life of a relatively low number of women
- who would choose to break the law": Notice that many of the women who died
- did not break the law. Antiabortion laws resulted in the deaths of many
- law-abiding women from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
-
- And the children that these women were forced against their will to give birth
- to did not have a happy ending. According to the article:
-
- "Although the number of children institutionalized before the
- overthrow of the Ceaucescu government is unknown, shortly after the
- revolution approximately 150,000 to 200,000 children were in
- institutional care. Warehousing children in institutions overwhelmed
- the health care system and reduced the standard of care. ...several
- thousand severely retarded and handicapped children are likely to
- remain in institutions for the rest of their lives".
-
- >- Paul
-
- .... Heather.
-