[net.followup] miscarriage article in net.women.only

gary@rocks34.UUCP (09/27/83)

I recently read in a book that came out in 1981 that researchers estimate
that 10% of the pregnancies that last over 3 months are spontaneously
aborted, and a large majority of those fetuses are deformed, usually very
badly.  The figure is probably fairly accurate since most women know
that they are pregnant by the time they are three months pregnant, and
know they are having a miscarriage when it happens.  Researchers estimate
that a much larger percentage of pregnancies are spontaneously aborted
in the first three months of pregnancy, but the figure is difficult to
support due to lack of evidence.

Gary