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From: jwalsh@bbn.com (Jamie Walsh)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Recipe for Low-Technology Abortions
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Date: 13 Jan 89 01:25:43 GMT
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Reply-To: jwalsh@cc6.bbn.com (Jamie Walsh)
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Holy Coathanger, Batman!  I hope that was supposed to be a joke!  It should
have been posted to rec.sicko.humor!

If it wasn't a joke I'm liable to sic the entire readership of soc.women
on him.

I remember all the marches when abortion was illegal where we carried a
cardboard coffin signifying the thousands of women who died each year from
backroom "operations" like those he suggested.  Most of the deaths were due
to infection from incomplete removal of the fetus or infection from
perforating the uterus.

Geezum crow, kid, don't start slaughtering innocent pregnant women with
your ignorant quackery, especially since you don't even know where you're
going!  An implanted embryo or fetus generally resides in the uterus, not
the fallopian tubes.  A tubal pregnancy (not exactly rare, but not very
common) would require REAL surgery, and would not be considered an
abortion.  

And lest you find out that a primary method of first trimester abortion is
a type of vacuum method, I'd like to mention that PLENTY women died trying
to use a vacuum cleaner for an abortion when it sucked the uterus out of
the abdominal cavity.

-- jamie (jwalsh@cc6.bbn.com
         !harvard!bbn!jwalsh)
"There's a seeker born every minute."

A waste is a terrible thing to mind.  -- The Treatment