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- From: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Survivors of Abortion: The Dreaded Complication
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.001641.3563@ncsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Jul21.141808.11160@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul21.180821.15341@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:16:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.180821.15341@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
-
- >dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) quotes from the
- >Philadelphia Inquirer:
-
- >> Something happens in a very small number of abortions, per-
- >> formed relatively late in pregnancy, that no one wants to talk
- >> about. It horrifies many of the medical personnel who have
- >> encountered it.
- >>
- >> What happens is that about once a day somewhere in the U.S.,
- >> something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby.
-
- > Considering that fewer than 100 third trimester abortions are
- > performed in the U.S. _every year_, I'm already doubting this
- > article.
-
- What do you define as the third trimester? 28 weeks and after?
- The article in the Philadelphia Inquirer dealt with "late" abortions,
- generally those occurring when the fetus is viable, which can occur
- before 28 weeks. In 1980, approximately 13,000 abortions were
- performed on women pregnant more than 21 weeks.
-
- > The fact that this article is _11_ years old (and therefore
- > copies of the original are hard to come by) makes me wonder
- > what point DearOldDoug is trying to make.
-
- The article is not "hard to come by", I gave another source which is
- readily accessible (The Congressional Record, April 21, 1986, S 4621).
- The CR is available in most major public libraries.
-
- > And how about this litany?
-
- These quotes are all written by doctors, nurses, prosecutors, and other
- professionals in the field.
-
- > ``We have produced an unusual dilemma,''
-
- Written in a paper authored by Dr. Warren M. Hern, chief physician,
- and Billie Corrigan, head nurse, of the Boulder (Colo.) Abortion Clinic.
-
- > ``We've had guys drinking too much,''
-
- Dr. Julius Butler, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at
- the University of Minnesota Medical School.
-
- > ``You are doing a destructive process,''
-
- Dr. William Benbow Thompson of the University of California at Irvine.
-
- > ``There is a lot in medicine that is unpleasant,''
-
- Dr. Mildred Hanson, a doctor who performs abortions in a Minneapolis
- clinic.
-
- > ``You get burned out,''
-
- Dr. Bolognse, who performs abortions in Philadelphia.
-
- > ``It's disconcerting,''
-
- Iona Siegel, administrator of the Women's Health Center at
- Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn.
-
- > ``That's not medicine,''
-
- Dr. Ervin Nichols, director of practice activities for the American
- College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
-
- > ``This is happening all over the place,''
-
- An unidentified California prosecuting attorney.
-
- > ``It is frightening,''
-
- Dr. Roger K. Freeman, medical director of Women's Hospital at the Long
- Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif.
-
-
-
- >Chris Lyman
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-
-