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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Larry Margolis shows his expertise at innuendo, again
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.021358.23066@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:13:58 GMT
- References: <nyikos.725147807@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Dec28.063751.2980@watson.ibm.com> <nyikos.725748406@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- In article <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.
-
- >>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?
-
- Peter, there is no evidence as to the situations the abortions were performed
- for. After all, a termination on a healthy woman is quite likely to have
- different sequelae than a termination performed on someone with cardiac
- problems.
-
- >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).
-
- I'll pull it on you. Peter, do your own research. You supposedly have a
- Post Hole Digger in math - so I am sure that somewhere along the way you
- learned to use abstracting journals and reference materials. Or, go ask
- the biosciences reference librarian at the nearest academic library.
-
- >After all, you are the one who, by innuendo, have created the impression
- >that things are DIFFERENT today.
-
- After all, we all know that medical techniques haven't changed at all in the
- past 16 - 20 years....
-