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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Nyikos and the one bad apple theory of forced pregnancy.
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:11:59 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.000140.4189@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) writes:
- >From article <C03G0J.H94@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, by psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow):
- >> In article <1992Dec28.065056.50307@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com
- >> (Larry Margolis) writes:
- >>> In <nyikos.725150678@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu
- >> (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >
- >>> >Meanwhile, 1,600,000 unborn children, most of them already in the
- >>> >fetus stage, are aborted each year in the USA alone.
- >
- >>> This would be interesting to see you document this, since the dictionary
- >>> says:
- >>> fetus (n)
- >>> DEFINITIONS:
- >>> an unborn or unhatched vertebrate esp.
- >>> after attaining the basic structural plan
- >>> of its kind; specif : a developing human
- >>> from usu. three months after conception
- >>> to birth
- >>> (c) G. & C. Merriam
- >
- >Gosh, I hate to complicate matters, but I must take issue with this
- >definition. According to my human embryology text, the fetal period begins
- >in the 9th week of gestation when, as the dictionary correctly reports, the
- >criterion for fetushood has been met: attainment of the basic structural
- >plan of a human. I think you'll find that this is embryology's definition
- >of fetus, and that the dictionary writers were influenced by the popular
- >trimester system which is numerically convenient but is not based on
- >developmental events.
- >
- >>> and the statistics I have show that more than 90% of all abortions in
- >>> the USA are performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
- >
- >It would be interesting to see how many abortions are performed before and
- >after 9 weeks.
-
- 50% of the 1.6 million abortions each year take place at 8 weeks or less
- from the last time the woman menstruated (LMP); 27% at 9-10 weeks LMP; and
- 12% at 11-12 weeks LMP. 6% of abortions take place at 13-15 weeks LMP;
- 4% at 16-20 weeks LMP; and less than 1% at 21 weeks LMP or more (0.6%).
-
- About 100 or 0.01% of abortions take place after 24 weeks.
-
- I don't have any figures for exactly 9 weeks, but even if we go with your
- textbook instead of the common definition, Petey is wrong about "most".
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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