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From: larry@pdn.UUCP (Larry Swift)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med
Subject: Re: Wanted: Recipe for Low-Technology Abortions
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Date: 13 Jan 89 13:33:36 GMT
References: <13433@cup.portal.com> <4555@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: larry@pdn.UUCP (0000-Larry Swift)
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In article <4555@cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
>In article <13433@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>> For example, I can get 12-gauge, solid-core copper wire with Teflon 
>> insulation ... I'll bet I could shove it all the way up a woman's 
>> Fallopian tubes without danger of infection, if had some way of 
>> knowing where it was going.
>
>The larger problem here is not the tools, but the skills
>required.  You are not qualified to practice medicine.  That
>perfectly sterile wire of yours will nevertheless cause infection
>and perhaps death if you break through the uterine wall.  You
>certainly don't want to try pushing it through the Fallopian
>tubes!  Do yourself and any women who would be foolish enough to
>risk this a favor: forget it, don't even think about doing this. 

Obviously people ARE going to think about it, and DO it.  I'm sure,
however, that Mark was making a tongue-in-cheek comment to the same
point.  And very nicely done, too. 

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