From: slkg9733@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven L. Kellmeyer)
Subject: Abortion and Women's Health.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: talk.abortion
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:33:00 GMT


The immediate or short-term complication rate for vacuum abortion is
12 percent.  Total morbidity rate (rate of all complications following
a surgical procedure) is 31% (Margaret and Arthur Wynn, "Some
consequences of Induced abortion to Children Born Subsequently",
in the Marriage and Family Newsletter, vol 4, nos.2-4, Feb, Mar, April
1973).  

A 1971 German study of 1,234 abortions rpeorted an "early complicatio"
rate of 12.2 percent - cited in Wynn, "Some consequences".  
Another study of 2,498 vacuum abortios found 285 incidents of obvious
post-abortion complications either immediately after the 
procedure or at an eight-week follow-up exam, yeilding an "early rate"
of 11.4%. (Edelman, Brenner and Berger "Abortion by aspiration versus
Curettage" American Journal of OBstetrics and Gynecology, 15 June 1974
vol 119, no 4 p. 476)

Only 42% of women recieved RH testing or immunization prior to their 
abortions. Since micrscopic tears or bleeding is sufficient to "load"
an immune response, this means that all Rh negative women who did not
recieve Rhogam immediately following their abortion will almost certainly
endanger herself with any future "wanted" pregnancies.

One of the "worst" complications, from the abortionists point of view,
is the chance that a child will survive the abortion.  According to 
Dr. Crist, a Kansas City abortionist, "the abortio patient has a right 
not only to be rid of the ... fetus... but also has a right to a 
dead fetus."  Oddly enough, this particular viewpoint seems to fall
outside the common line about a women's right to choose what happens
to her own body, since the fetus outside of her body is now born
and the woman now has no claims towards assuring the child's death.

Live birth abortions occur in the United States at a rate of 400 to
500 a year, a rate of over one a day. (Jeffries and Edmond, "Abortio
the Dreaded Complication", the Philadelphia Enquirere, 2 Aug 1981)

The number of women dying from legal abortion is higher than reported
figures.  Michael Grobsmith, chief of the Illinois Department of 
Public Health's Division of Hospitals and Clinics, commenting on the
hemorrage-death of a woman in her own home following a legal abortion
in 1977, said "It's unfortunate, but it's happening every day in Chicago
and you're just not hearing about it." (Saltenberger, "Every Woman" p.27) 

One year later, the Chicago sun-Times uncovered 12 abortion deaths that
had never been reported. (Zekman and Warick, "The Abortion Profiteers"
The Chicago Sun-times, 3 December 1978, originally printed 12 Nov 1978)

The CDC, which is strongly pro-abortion in it's editorial views, admits
that the reported rate of deaths due to legal abortio is being deliberately
kept low through selective underreporting. (Saltenberger, Ann "Every Woman Has
the Right to know the Dangers of legal Abortion" p. 51)

According to one estimate, less than 10% of deaths from legal abortion
are reported as such. (Hilgers, "Medical Hazards of Abortion", from 
Abortion and Social Justice)

It is currently unconstitutional to require the reporting of abortion-related
complications and deaths, according to the United States Supreme Court.
(Destro, "Abortion and the Constitution" 1303 (footnote 274)) 

It might hurt business.

SK

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