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  2. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  3. Subject: Re: FOCA: And I quote.....
  4. Message-ID: <1992Aug23.000518.18051@midway.uchicago.edu>
  5. From: eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
  6. Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 00:05:18 GMT
  7. Reply-To: eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  9. References: <1992Aug18.055058.14190@watson.ibm.com> <1992Aug18.133317.16209@ncsu.edu>
  10. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug18.133317.16209@ncsu.edu>
  14. dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
  15. ><.. note follow-ups to talk.abortion, once again ..>
  16. >In article <1992Aug18.055058.14190@watson.ibm.com> 
  17. >margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
  18. >>dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
  19.  
  20. >>> Premature infants that have been born between 21 and 24 weeks have
  21. >>> been known to survive.  The reported "third trimester" figures that
  22. >>> you cite do not represent all post-viability abortions, but only those
  23. >>> performed after 24 weeks.
  24.  
  25. >> In other words, my figures address Mr. Moore's misconception regarding
  26. >> the number of third-trimester abortions, and your comments had nothing
  27. >> to do with what he said (quoted above).
  28.  
  29. >I'm entitled to point out that your figures do not represent the number 
  30. >of post-viability abortions.  That's all I was doing.  Don't take it so
  31. >hard. 
  32.  
  33. You didn't make it clear that you were addressing a different issue
  34. (viability, rather than third trimester).
  35.  
  36. You haven't yet answered my questions regarding what *percentage* of
  37. fetuses from 21 to 24 weeks survive.  If it's something like 5-10%, I
  38. wouldn't consider it post-viability.  If it's over 50%, I would.
  39. Between those it gets murky.
  40.  
  41. --
  42. Pro-Choice                 Anti-Roe                     - E. Elizabeth Bartley
  43.             Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
  44.