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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.004740.4299@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 00:47:40 GMT
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- (vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Ergo, if you disagree with the speaker, then any statistics s/he finds are
- lies.
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