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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Back-alley abortions don't decrease
Message-ID: <252@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 09:51:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 09:51:11 1984
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A short while back I posted the statement that liberalization
or legalization of abortion does not decrease the incidence
of illegal and back-alley abortion.  I have received mail
requesting references for that statement, and thought I may
as well post it here, too.
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"although one of the major goals of the liberalization of
abortion laws in Scaninavia was to reduce the incidence
of illegal abortion, this was not accomplished.  Rather,
as we know from a variety of sources, both criminal and
legal abortions increased."

Christopher Tietze, M.D., "Abortion in Europe," Annual Meeting of
the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, October 1966.

"in Hungary, though there are more legal abortions than live births,
illegal abortions have not decreased. ...In East Germany, illegal
abortions as well as births and pregnancies increased between 1948
and 1950, a period in which the abortion laws were liberalized
to allow abortions on social as well as on medical grounds...From
1946-1956, illegal abortions rose more than legal abortions."

H. Frederiksen and James Brackett, "Demographic Effects of Abortion,"
U. S. Public Health Reports, December 1966.

In England: the 1966 liberalized abortion law "produced increasing
deaths of patients and a growing number of abortion mills.  Back-
street abortionists, instead of decreasing, have increased."

Jill Knight, member of Parliament, Birmingham Evening Mail and Dispatch,
Birmingham, England, October 15, 1966.

Director of Colorado state health department:
"the liberalized abortion law of 1968 has not done what we hoped it
would do - it has not cut down the percentage of illegal abortions."

E. N. Akers, Director Colorado Health Department, Denver Associated
Press Report, January 13, 1970.

New York's chief medical examiner:
"We're still getting abortions like those we had prior to liberalization
of the law."

Milton Halpern, Chief Medical Examiner, New York, Daily News, February
20, 1971.
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Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

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