From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,alt.birthright
Subject: Re: Don't just whine about media bias. Do something!
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:03:38 GMT
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rgoers@gumdrop.Xerox.COM writes:
|adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:  
|>Yes, she did.  But again, the ramifications of carrying the child to term
|>(this was in '81) were FAR worse than the risks associated with the
|>abortion.

|That's simply not true.  Abortion is the un-natural termination
|of a natural body process.

And an appendectomy is the un-natural termination of a natural
body process.  And so is open-heart surgery.  And tonsillectomies.
What's your point?

|To say that abortion is safer than birth is repeating something
|that someone taught us somewhere along the way which is
|unsubstantiated and un-true.  Abortion is not, nor has it ever
|been, safer than giving birth.

A blatant assertion, unsupported, and completely untrue.
Some facts for you to consider:

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From a post by Russ Anderson, Message-ID:
<1992May1.113351.19800@hemlock.cray.com>:

MORTALITY REATES FROM LEGAL ABORTION AND CHILBIRTH

each per 100,000

_Year_ _Abortion_      _Childbirth_
 1971   11.0            14.9
 1972    4.1            15.2
 1973    3.4            12.5
 1974    2.9            12.4
 1975    2.8            10.3
 1976    0.9            10.2
 1977    1.3             9.8
 1978    0.6             9.7
 1979    1.2             8.0
 1980    0.6             7.5
 1981    0.4             7.2
 1982    0.8             7.9
 1983    0.3             8.0

source: universal almanac, 1990.

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From a post by Eric Rescorla, Message-ID:
<1992May3.203007.4798@cs.yale.edu>:

"Morbidity and Mortality of abortion in the United States"
by Willard Cates, Jr. and David A. Grimes

The meat of the statistics is in the following tables:
Type of Procedure         Death to case rate(usa, per 100000 cases)
----------------------------------------(1972-77)----------------
Uterine evacuation                        1.5
 Curettage(<=12 wks)                      1.2
 D&E(>=13 wks)                            8.3
Instillation
 Saline                                   15.5
 Prostaglandin and others                 20.6
Hysterototomy/Hysterectomy                45.3

Type of procedure                           wks of gestation
                     <=8    9-10  11-12   13-15    16-20  >=21
curettage            .5      1.6   2.9
D&E                                        6.7      12.9   16.7
Saline                                     2.5      19.3   20.6
Prostaglandin/other                        62.2     11.6   77.3
Hysterototomy/Hysterectomy   58.8  39.7    70.8     47.8   157.5
i
The death rate due to live birth runs at 14-15/100000
The authors go on to say 
"Compared to other surgical procedures, the death to case rate for
legally induced abortion is remarkably low. A routine tonsillectomy
carries a risk of death twice as high as that of legal abortion, whereas
an appendectomy is approximately 100 times more dangerous than legally
induced abortion (Wennberg, 1979)" How about that splenectomy, eh
Suzanne?

""Compared to continuing the pregnancy to term, terminating a pregnancy
before 16 weeks gestation is associated with seven-fold lower mortality
even after having standardized the population groups for difference in
age and race(Cates and Tietze, 1977)."

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cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com	C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
"To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability
of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person
would always wish to avoid."  --Jane Austen
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