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- From: dsh@zeus.csc.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Illegal abortions (was Re: Only God Can Help Us!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.202927.24720@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Aug26.112909.25187@rigel.econ.uga.edu> <1992Sep3.014752.19772@ncsu.edu> <24534@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:29:27 GMT
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- In article <24534@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
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- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >>bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
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- >>> There are more abortions done in Brazil per year than in the
- >>> US, which has a larger population.
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- >> I may be wrong, but I think Brazil has very tight restrictions on the
- >> availability of contraceptives.
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- > I think you are probably right. A free clue though, most of the pro-life
- > crowd, at least the most vocal of them, are also for restricting contra-
- > ceptives. So the comparison is quite appropiate, don't you agree?
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- No, I don't agree that the number of deaths from illegal abortion in
- Brazil can be carried over to this country. First you would have to show
- that the US population would agree to restrict access to contraceptives,
- and I don't think that's likely to happen. Secondly, you would have to
- explain the discrepancy between the number of deaths from illegal abortion
- in Brazil and the number of deaths in the US before Roe v. Wade. As I
- posted earlier, the CDC reported 39 deaths from illegal abortion in 1972.
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- >Ron
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- Doug Holtsinger
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