dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (08/23/84)
>>from Betsy Perry >>If I were only poor and strong-minded, I would probably go to an >>illegal back-alley abortionist, putting my own life at severe >>risk. (Note parallels to subpoint (3) above.) >>In short, a law forbidding abortions would NOT stop them from >>occurring; it would, at most, make them more dangerous >>to the mother's life. >[Paul Dubuc] >You seem to assume that the number of abortions will remain constant >if abortion is legalized. Don't you think more women would rather >go through with the pregnancy (perhaps placing the child for adoption) >rather than risk a back alley abortion. >Some interesting information on the pre-1973 occurance of back alley >abortions comes from Dr. Bernard Nathanson's book "Aborting America". >Nathanson used to run the largest abortion facility in the world >and co-founded NARAL. He has stated that NARAL deliberately lied >and inflated the statistics on back alley abortions in order to instill >sympathy for their cause in the public. Another bit of information relating to this issue is that the availability of legal abortion does *not* result in a decrease in the incidence of backalley abortions. In numerous instances, e.g., Colorado, New York, East Germany, Hungary and England, when abortion was legalized liberalized, the number of back alley abortions INCREASED. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois And he is before all things, and by him all things consist... Colossians 1:17