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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: The 91% Regret Rate
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.055108.20404@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:51:08 GMT
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- In <1992Sep11.235958.28946@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- > From article by chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman):
- > > ata@sage.cc.purdue.edu (ata boy) writes:
- > >
- > >> I have read Planned Parenthood's study which shows that 91% of all
- > >> women who have abortions suffer from Post Abortive Stress Syndrome.
- > >
- > > I would like to echo Chuck Lavazzi and express my earnest desire to
- > > see the source for your statistic. I would also like to see your
- > > definition of 'Post Abortive Stress Syndrome' including symptoms.
- >
- > The source is the Alan Guttmacher institute, although they refrain from
- > calling it "Post Abortive Stress Syndrome". The Alan Guttmacher survey
- > found that of all women who have had abortions, a FULL 91% would have NOT
- > aborted, if someone had presented them with help for an alternative.
- > (Which, honestly, does translate into some measure of regret.)
-
- Saying you would have acted differently had the circumstances been
- different does *not* translate into regret, and regret is not
- "Post Abortive Stress Syndrome".
-
- > > But a first-trimester abortion is more than an order of magnitude
- > > safer than carrying a pregnancy to term.
- >
- > Not for the baby.
-
- What baby?
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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