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- From: rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Carol Everett
- Message-ID: <81401@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:06:52 GMT
- References: <81308@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan22.163003.20523@cs.yale.edu> <81374@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech CERL/EE, Atlanta, Ga
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- Corrections.
-
- In article <81374@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
- |In article <1993Jan22.163003.20523@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
- ||In article <81308@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@cerl.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
- ||>|Abortion is a surgical procedure performed only by licensed phsycians
- ||>|(legally). It is certainly beyond the scope of practice for nurses,
- ||>|and is beyond the scope of practice for Physicians Assistants and
- ||>|Nurse Pracitioners in every state for which I have seen the practice
- ||>|acts.
- ||>Again 15 states don't have this legislated.
- ||Can you document this, Mr. Pitts?
- |
- |Check with Carol Everett. I didn't say licensed doctors routinely
- ^^^^^^^^
- |perform abortions in 15 states, but that the states don't have it
- |legislated.
-
- This should have been "unlicensed doctors" not licensed ones.
-
- ||>|>> - 20 women (out of 35,000 abortions) "maimed or killed"
- ||>|>That would be surprising, since the overall rate is something
- ||>|>like 1/100 major complications and 1-2/100000 deaths.
- ||>|>Were her doctors particularly incompetent or is she just being
- ||>|>VERY loose with the term "maimed or killed"
- ||>
- ||>Carol said on the radio that she had one (1) death and, I think,
- ||>thirty-five (35) were maimed at her clinics. I forget how many
- ||>abortions they provided. However, the numbers she gave for
- ||>complications was that 1 in 500 had to have a hysterectomy or colostomy.
- ||
- ||Well she should really make up her mind. I would consider both of
- ||those "maimed" and that means that 70 people were maimed. Which
- ||one is it, Mr. Pitts?
- |
- |How so, Mr. Rescorla - I said I didn't have the numbers on how many
- |abortions her clinics provided. If you use the other persons numbers,
- |you'd get your numbers, but I can't confirm the 35,000 number. I
- |remembered and used the 1 death, 35 maimed, and the 1 in 500 Hs and Cs.
-
- Ok, I missed remembered and I'm admitting it. I heard the radio clip
- again on the way home and the numbers Everett used were one (1) death
- and nineteen (19) maimed at her clinics. There were 35,000 (thirty-five
- thousand) abortions performed at her clincs and during the last eighteen (18)
- months there was an average of one (1) historectomy or colostomy per five
- hundred (500) abortions. [Total number of abortions during the last 18
- months was not given.]
-
- Sincerely,
- Richard Pitts
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