NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/talk/abortion/53699

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From: [e-mail] (Susan Garvin)
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Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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Date: 31 Dec 92 18:51:13 GMT
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I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone that the only member
or official of NARAL who claims that the estimates of deaths due
to illegal abortion were grossly exaggerated is Bernard Nathanson.
This admitted liar is now a leader in the anti-abortion movement.
His claims about NARAL's actions have not been confirmed by any
of the other members.  (Nathanson likes to pass himself off as the
driving force behind NARAL.  If one looks at the early history of
the organization, or reads the words of the other founders, this
claim is contradicted.)

I read some books on abortion that were published in the 50's and
60's.  I'll get the numbers again next week, but the estimates
of abortion related deaths in those books were in line with the
estimates that Nathanson so desperately wants to debunk.
Further, anyone who asks a doctor who worked in an emergency
room in an urban area before Roe can hear first hand accounts
of how common these deaths were, and how unlikely the claim
that 90% of all abortions were done in doctor's offices is.
The fact that many hospitals had entire wards for treating
abortion complications is further evidence that this claim
is constructed out of wishful thinking at best.

Susan