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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Message-ID: <1108@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 10:01:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 10:01:53 1986
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Summary: 

In article <173@valid.UUCP> pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) writes:

>An abortion is still less life-threatening to the mother than a full-term
>pregnancy.

This is not true; a while back I posted an article quoting statistics to
the contrary.  If there is any interest (no one responded to it the first
time), I will dig them out and post them again.  (Or if anyone saved the
article and would like to post it, feel free.)

In the meantime, I summarize from memory.

Abortion is more likely than a normal pregnancy to cause any of several
complications:  infection, damage to the uterus, etc., leading to an
increase in problems with subsequent pregnancies, sometimes miscarriages,
sometimes sterility.  And some women die from perfectly legal, supposedly
safe abortions.  Now abortionists are loathe to tell on themselves, and
often complications which are probably abortion related are not reported
as such.  (They have a vested interest in making abortions appear to be
safe.)  And some women are reluctant to reveal the fact that they
have had an abortion, another reason why complications due to abortion
are underreported.

Gary Samuelson