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From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Back-alley abortions don't decrease
Message-ID: <8962@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 20:02:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 20:02:36 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 21:25:43 EDT
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Do the figures cited to support the increase of abortions after legalisation
of abortion take into account the increase of the population of child-bearing
age?  Don't forget that there was a baby-boom in the 50s, and that those people
are right in their most productive years now wrt child-bearing.

Also, how reliable are "old" figures on abortion?  do not forget that before
legalisation, there was a much bigger social stigma against abortion than 
exists now, so having an abortion is not something that women would easily
admit having.

Sophie Quigley
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