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echo: fidonews
to: WARD DOSSCHE
from: DAN CLOUGH
date: 2019-06-16 08:37:00
subject: Re: Abortion

-=> Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn <=-

 GK> No? So who is having abortions these days in the US? All wealthy people
 GK> who could also go abroad?

 WD> Abortion numbers in the USA is a grossly misrepresented subject.

 WD> Last year there were officially 3.853.472 babies born there and
 WD> ultra right-wing anti-abortion groups claiming some 320.000
 WD> abortions.

 WD> My daughter who runs the delivery room in a major hospital here
 WD> (Belgium) and quite familiar with US situations confirms the
 WD> abortion numbers presented there are totally absurd.

Well, what does she think the number is?  You don't indicate in 
which direction you/she think the number is skewed.

A quick google check (of non-"ultra-right-wing" websites) shows 
the number to be roughly 640,000.  Twice what you said.  What a 
surprise.


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