tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post8223978966983287901..comments2024-03-18T17:37:44.183+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: More Joy In Heaven?David Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-26039178355157734082007-10-26T10:14:00.000+01:002007-10-26T10:14:00.000+01:00I don't. I want action against poverty, sexual pro...I don't. I want action against poverty, sexual promiscuity, exclusion of people with disabilities, pornography, and everything else that gives rise to abortion.<BR/><BR/>In any case, as Peter Hitchens writes on his blog this week:<BR/><BR/>"There is no reliable information about the true state of affairs before abortion was legalised in Britain 40 years ago. Whose word would you trust on this matter? Pro-abortion propagandists talk of tens of thousands of bloody back-street abortions, and in the 1960s estimated these at anywhere up to 250,000 a year. How did they know? <BR/><BR/>At the time that the Bill was going through Parliament, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said of such claims:'These are without any secure factual foundation of which we are aware. The incidence of criminal abortion varies widely from city to city . . . in the experience of many gynaecologists working outside large cosmopolitan cities the occurrence is relatively uncommon and, when it does happen, the abortion is more often induced by the woman herself than by some other person.' The report said there were, on average, 50 fatal abortion attempts each year in England and Wales. Of these, 30 followed criminal acts. 'If there are 100,000 criminal (including self-induced) abortions being performed annually this means that they are attended by a mortality rate of only 0.3 per 1,000. The risks of criminal abortion are established to be high, so the known number of deaths suggests that the total number of such cases must be considerably less than that alleged.' The only alternative explanation for the lack of fatalities, said the doctors, was that criminal abortions in back streets must be safer than legal ones in hospitals. Not very likely, is it?"<BR/><BR/>Quite.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-57425214782199469622007-10-26T10:11:00.000+01:002007-10-26T10:11:00.000+01:00Who do you want to go back to back street abortion...Who do you want to go back to back street abortions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com