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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!usc!news.aero.org!zeus
  2. From: zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  4. Subject: Re: numbers
  5. Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:34:13 GMT
  6. Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
  7. Lines: 15
  8. Message-ID: <1k9g05INN467@news.aero.org>
  9. References: <1993Jan27.151634.19036@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <markp.728247608@joplin.wri.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: zapodid.aero.org
  11. Summary: big talk, no numbers
  12. Keywords: forced childbirth
  13.  
  14. In article <markp.728247608@joplin.wri.com>,
  15.      markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes:
  16. >For a number of years, the figure was 1.6 million. According to a t.a 
  17. >pro-choicer (I forget who), the number has more recently been 1.4 million.
  18. >(This same pro-choicer, BTW, flamed the 1.6 million figure as not just
  19. >outdated, but a "lie".)
  20.  
  21.     A "number of years"? What number? Which years? 
  22.     Lemme see: not sure which years, not sure of the exact
  23.     figures, not sure of who allegedly cited 1.6M but sure
  24.     that that person both cited the 1.6M *and* called it 
  25.     a lie, not sure what the figure is now ...
  26.  
  27.     How hard can it be to find an almanac these days?
  28.                 Dave Suess    zeus@aerospace.aero.org
  29.