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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Larry Margolis shows his expertise at innuendo, again
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:46:46 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.063751.2980@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
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- >In <nyikos.725147807@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>
- >>In the meantime, I hope you can help me correct an entry in
- >>Dr. Willke's _Abortion: Questions and Answers_. Here it is, as
- >>it appears on p. 108 of the Fourth edition.
- >>
- >> Women who had one induced abortion had a 17.5% miscarriage
- >> rate in subsequent pregnancies, as compared to a 7.5%
- >> rate in a non-aborted group.
- >> Richarson & Dickson, "Effects of Legal Termination
- >> on Subsequent Pregnancy," _British Med. Jour., vol. 1,
- >> 1976, pp. 1303-04.
-
- >Perhaps I can help. How about adding the following note:
- > Of course, it should be noted that is from a British journal from
- > 16 years ago, and describes a problem with techniques that are probably
- > no longer used in the US. There is *no* evidence of problems with
- > later childbearing among women who have an early abortion performed by
- > the most common method used *today* - vacuum aspiration.
-
- Vacuum aspiration predates 1976. As for the *no* evidence part, is there
- *any* evidence that it IS different today?
-
- Can you give me a reference? Please don't pull a Mark Cochran on me
- ("Any good medical journal."), nor a Nadja Adolf (go to the library and
- dig it up yourself).
-
- After all, you are the one who, by innuendo, have created the impression
- that things are DIFFERENT today.
-
- Peter Nyikos
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