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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:00:15 GMT
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- sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
-
- >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
-
- Sources please.
-
- Regarding Nathanson... of COURSE no other NARAL members are going to
- support his statements. Would you actually think they would?
-
- Let us not forget that even sources don't mean much. Statistics can
- be manufactured to support almost anything.
-
-
- Edward Simmonds
-
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