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From: liz@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: we have cause to be suspicious
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 10:32:40 EST
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Sorry folks, but abortion does bring a lot of money to those doctors
who work in abortion clinics full time.  Even though it is true
that an ob/gyn's fee for delivery is ususally something like $1000
while a suction abortion costs more like $200-300, you have to take
into account the time he spends at each.  A single doctor at an
abortion clinic can perform far more abortions per day than he
could deliver babies.

Also, according to my roommate who is a nurse, it is common for
new ob/gyn's to start out by working at an abortion clinic for a
while because it is the easiest way to clear out a large school
debt.

Another source of income at the clinics is what they get for selling
the aborted fetuses both for scientific research and for use in
cosmetics.

Let me say that not all doctors who perform abortions do it full
time or are out to make money.  I'm just saying that it does happen
-- and too often!  There probably are abortion clinics who counsel
their patients well and really care about them, but there are many
that upon giving a woman a positive pregnancy test result, will
immediately ask when she wants to be scheduled for an abortion.
They all offer free pregnancy tests as a way of getting patients
for abortions.  I know of at least one case in which a clinic wanted
a woman to get an abortion.  When this woman came to the center I
work at, and we ran a pregnancy test on her, we got a negative
result.  This woman wasn't even pregnant!  She was rather upset.
According to the director of our center, this happens too often
(although for it to happen at all is too often).

				-Liz Allen
-- 
Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
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