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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Larry Margolis shows his expertise at innuendo, again
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- In <nyikos.725748406@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Dec28.063751.2980@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- The article was published in 1976; there's no indication given of when
- the data is taken from, or what type of abortion was involved.
-
- >Can you give me a reference?
-
- Certainly. "Facts in Brief: Abortion in the United States."
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