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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: THE RAPE/INCEST MYTH.
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:20:20 GMT
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- In <64100@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
- >
- > WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE NUMBERS?
-
- They're incorrect.
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- > PICK YOUR OWN PERCENTAGE.
-
- It's not a percentage; it's an absolute number.
-
- > >Ok. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, less than 100 abortions are
- > >performed PER YEAR after the 24th week of pregnancy. These are done for
- > >life threatening reasons to the mother or because of severe deformities in
- > >the developing fetus. There are only 3 or 4 doctors in the entire US who
- > >perform third trimester abortions.
- >
- > I have not seen this in print anywhere - are these new statistics?
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- They've been posted here previously.
-
- > As stated above I've seen numbers from 0.5% to 1%.
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- From the same source:
- Statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
- 51% of all abortions are performed in the first 8 weeks of pregnancy.
- 91% of all abortions are performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
- 96% of all abortions are performed in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy.
- 99.1% of all abortions are performed by the 20th week of pregnancy.
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- LESS THEN 100 ABORTIONS ARE PERFORMED EVERY YEAR AFTER THE 24TH WEEK OF
- PREGNANCY.
-
- You might be thinking of the numbers for 20 weeks; the discussion was
- about third-trimester abortions, which means after 24 weeks.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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