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From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas )
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Back to you, Ken
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Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 20:29:40 EST
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>I must wonder about a doctor who would leave something that is living and
>breathing on its own to die.  I have never heard of this happening, and having
>relatives that worked in hospitals (in delivery rooms), at least at these
>hospitals, doctors DO NOT leave anything to die.  Second or third trimester
>abortions are rare.  It is SO rare that an abortion could have survived on
>its own outside of the mother that it shouldn't even used as issue to ban
>all abortions.  The cases of a child being born severely deformed and the
>parents and doctors deciding to withhold treatment is completely different
>than a fetus living after an abortion.

Not true, Mikki.  There are at least a thousand such cases a year.  That's about
three a day.

   There are a number of cases that have come to court where the
doctor did not simply leave the baby to die, but actually strangled it.  The
medical community covered their own, however and no convictions were returned.

Let's stick to the truth.