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From: devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: Best for Others?
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 10:08:28 EDT
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carole@rosevax.UUCP (Carole Ashmore) writes:
>
>On the basis of these experiences and on the basis of my extensive
>reading in the field I can say that:
>
>	1. Sterility, and indeed, any bad physical consequence, is more
>	likely to result from carrying a pregnancy to term than from
>	a legal first trimester abortion.  
...
>
>	2. Some women do suffer guilt, remorse, and other mental
>	problems following an abortion; most women do not.  
... [followed by more off-the-cuff assertions]
>
>						Carole Ashmore

Statistics, please, could we have some statistics?  It's easy for
abortionists (and anti-abortionists) to make such unsubstantiated claims.
Where are the facts to back up the assertions?

Do you, in your counseling, use the approach that the fetus is possibly a
living human and worthy of protection?  What comfort is it to these
women to be told the the child within her is simply a lump of flesh only to
find out later that it ain't necessarily so?  That's where the mental
problems come from.  I've talked with members of WEBA who invariably recall
their experience as one clouded by misinformation and half-truths all
designed to get the woman to have an abortion.  Remember, abortion is big
business.

Tom Albrecht