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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Abortion, Caves, Galen (WAS Vegetarianism and abortion)
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- In <C05BC3.6GE@ra.nrl.navy.mil> psl@nrl.navy.mil (Paul Lebow) writes:
- >
- >1989 Ed. STATISTICAL ABSTR OF THE U.S. - Bureau of Census:
- > by 1972 180 women died from abortions in the US.
- > in 1972 there were 38,000 illegal abortions
- >
- >1978 American Journal of Obstetrics & Gyn.
- > study claims that the legalization of abortion "has had no major impact
- > on the number of women dying from abortion"
- >
- >"A Speaker's and Debater's Notebook" NARAL 1978
- > claims that before 1973 the maternal death rate from illegal abortions was
- > 40 deaths per 100,000 with 200,000 illegal abortions per year.
-
- From HBO's America Undercover edition about abortion:
- But criminalizing abortion did not stop it - it merely drove it
- underground. By the mid-twentieth century, over a million women sought
- illegal abortions annually.
-
- From _Abortion_in_America:__the_origins_and_evolution_of_national_policy,
- _1800-1900_, by Mohr, James C., Oxford University Press, 1978:
- Fifth, a substantial number of American women continued to seek and
- have abortions despite the statutes designed to make them unavailable.
- Frederick J. Taussig, in a classic study published in 1936
- estimated on the basis of vital statistics and medical
- questionnaires that over half a million illegal abortions were
- then taking place in the United States annually....By the late
- 1960's estimates of the number of illegal abortions performed in
- the U.S. each year ranged from 200,000 to 1,200,000. In the Roe
- decision the Supreme Court openly acknowledged the existence of what it
- called "illegal abortion mills" in the United States....
-
- >For crying out loud, Heather, I can't believe that you would use stats
- >on a government run by that butcher dictator, Ceaucescu to support your
- >claims. Talk of mitigating factors - am I to ignore forced pregnancy
-
- It seems you'd have to ignore what forced pregnancy did there,
- since you want to institute forced pregnancy here.
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- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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