From: warren@pws.ma30.bull.com (Warren Lavallee)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.elections,talk.abortion
Subject: The Grand Facade: Are (legal) abotions safe?
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:28:55 GMT
Followup-To: talk.politics.misc


bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt) writes:
>The guy's name is Bailey (Mike Bailey if I recall correctly), and the
>article said he's an advertising exec who `decided to run for congress
>after learning that political ads for candidates cannot be censored
>unless they contain explicit sexual or excretory imagery.'

First, I'm Pro-life.

Good for him.  The media and most TV stations are very pro-abortion
biased.  If it takes something like this to get the truth out about
what abortion really is (a dead baby,) then I am all for it.

rocker writes:
>Ok...who volunteers to run for federal office so we can show pictures
>of the women who died from illegal abortion and tell their stories?
>(Tagline: "Illegal Abortion Kills Women!"?)

Speaking of the safety of abortion, I thought I would post some
facts about abortion.  All the references have footnotes in []'s
that tell exactly where they came from.  The bottom line is that
any kind of abortion is not guaranteed safe.  The mother is risking
her life literally even having an abortion.  Tell me, is having an
abortion worth dying for?

Planned Parenthood has created this facade that legal abortions are
safe.  Planned Parenthood as maintained over the past several years
that that complication rate for legal abortion is less than one
percent and is this safer than full-term pregnancy and childbirth.
[Howard W. Ory, "Mortality Associated with Fertility and Fertility
Control," Family Planning Perspectives, March/April 1983, pg. 60;
and Faye Wattleton, How to Talk With Your Child About Sexuality
(New York: Doubleday and Co., 1986), p. 180]
It is just not true.

Dr. Horton Dean is a gynecologist with a private practice near LA.
Since 1973 he has seen a marked increase in the number of patients
with significant complications- both mental and physical- as a
result of legal abortions.  "I am convinced," he said, "that Planned
Parenthood programs pose the greatest health hazard in America today."
[from interview in July 1987]  He estimates that as many as fifteen
percent of all first trimester, forty percent of all mid-trimester,
any ninety percent of all late-trimester abortions result in problems
demanding serious medical attention.  [Based on California 
Obstetrical/Gynecilogical tabulated responses to a five year statistical
survey.] 

A number of studies conducted by some of the finest medical 
research institutions all around the globe confirm Dean's
conclusion that "there is no such thing as a safe and legal
abortion.":
in Hungary
	[Leslie Iffy, M.D. "Abortion Statistics in Hungary",
	Obstetrics and Gynecology 45:115m 1975 ... + 5 more], 
Japan
	[K.G.B. Edstrom, "Early Complications and Later Sequalae of 
	Induced Abortion: A Review if te Literature", Bulletin of
	the World Health Organization 52:3332, 1975, + 2 more]
Greece
	[S.N. Oautekakis, G. C. Papadimitriou, and S. A. Dixiadis,
	"The Influence of Induced and Spontaneous Abortions on the
	outcome of subsequent pregnancies," American Journal of
	Obstetrics and Gynecology, 116:799, 1973 +3 more]
Great Britian
	[J.A Richardson and G. Dixon, "The Effects of Legal Termination on 
	Subsequent Pregnancy," The British Medical Journal 1:1303, 1976
	+ 4 more]
Czechoslovakia
	[S. Harlap and A. M. Davies, "Late Sequelae of Induced Abortion:
	Complications and Outcome of Pregnancy and Labor," American Journal
	of Epidemiology 102:217, 1975 + 4 more]
The Netherlands
	[J.W.Van der Slikke and P. E. Treffers, "The Influence of Induced
	Abortion on Gestational Duration in Subsequent Pregnancies," 
	The British Medical Journal 1:270, 1978 + 1 more]
Norway
	[D. Koller and S. N. Eikhom, "Late Sequelae of Induced Abortion in
	Primigravidae," Acta Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Scandinavia
	56:311 1977 + 2 more]
Israel
	[Harlap and Davies p. 217.]
Yugoslavia
	[C.J. Hogue, "Low Borth Weight Subsequent to Induced Abortion: 
	A Historical Prospective Study of 948 Women in Skopje, Yugoslavia"
	American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 123:675 1975 + 1 more]
Free China
	[J. R. Saling and I. Emanuel, "Induced Abortion and Subsequent
	Outcome of Pregnancy." New England Journal of Medicine 297:1241
	1977 +1 more]
United States at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School
	[G.L. Burkman et. al., "Culture and Treatment Results in 
	Endometritis Following Elective Abortion," American Journal of
	Obstetrucs and Gynecology, 128:5, 1977, pg. 556-559]
The Vanderblit University Medical School
	[K.L. Barrett et al., "Induced Abortion: A Risk Factor for
	Placenta Previa," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
	Dec 1981 pp. 769-772]
The University of Maryland Medical School
	[Felix Healt, "Adolescent Pregnancy and Prenatal Care," Family
	Practice News, Dec 15, 1975]
Creighton University Medical School
	[See Hilgers, Miulenburg, and O'Hare in Hilgers, Horan and Mall,
	pp. 1-5, 69-91, 164-181, 199-204, and 217-235.]
Cornell University Medical School
	J. Queena, "RH Sensitization, Abortion, and Later Pregnancies, "
	Medical World News, Apr 30, 1972, pg 36]
UCLA Medical School
	[S. Funderbunk et al., "Suboptimal Pregnancy Outcome with 
	Prior Abortions and Premature Births," Americal Journal of
	Obstetrucs and Gynecology, Sept 1, 1976. pp. 55-60]
University of North Carolina
	[L. Talbert, "DIC More Common Threat with Use of Saline Abortion,"
	Family Practive News, 5:19 (October, 1975)]

In every case abortion was found to dangerously risk maternal mortality,
perinatal fitness, congenital malformation, and future fertility.
	[See WHO Task Force; and Hilgers, Horan, and Mall, pp. 92-163]

I ask you again, is it worth the risk?

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