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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:20:27 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: Abortion Supporter says he lied thru his teeth
Now, was he lying when he said he was lying,
or was he only lying when he said he was not lying,
or was he not lying only when he said he was?
I am very confused now.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
At 12:43 PM 2/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>.c The Associated Press
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> NEW YORK (Feb. 26) - A prominent supporter of abortion rights says he
>''lied through my teeth'' when he said that so-called partial-birth abortions
>were performed rarely, and only to save the mother's life or to abort
>malformed fetuses.
>
> Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion
>Providers in Alexandria, Va., a coalition of 200 independently owned clinics,
>made the admission in an article to be published March 3 in Medical News, an
>American Medical Association publication.
>
> The article was quoted in Wednesday 's New York Times.
>
> Fitzsimmons, who had insisted the procedure was rare in a November 1995
>interview on the ABC show ''Nightline,'' now says abortion opponents are
>right when they say the procedure, intact dilation and evacuation, is common.
>
> He said that in the vast majority of cases, the procedure is formed on a
>healthy mother who is five months pregnant with a healthy fetus. ''The
>abortion rights folks know it, the anti-abortion folks know it, and so,
>probably, does everyone else,'' he said.
>
> He said he had lied because he feared the truth would damage the cause of
>abortion rights, but now he is convinced that the debate on the issue must be
>based on the truth.
>
> The procedure involves extracting a fetus through the birth canal, feet
>first, and then suctioning out the brain. Congress passed a law to ban the
>procedure, which opponents say borders on infanticide, but President Clinton
>vetoed the law and Congress failed to override the veto.
>
> In explaining his veto, Clinton said the procedure was used on ''a few
>hundred women every year'' whose fetuses are ''about to be born with terrible
>deformities.''
>
> Fitzsimmons' article is not the first to suggest that abortion rights
>supporters had understated the frequency of the procedure.
>
> A report in The Record of Hackensack, N.J., last September sparked
>controversy when it reported that doctors at just one clinic in suburban
>Englewood estimated using the controversial procedure in about half of the
>3,000 abortions they perform each year on women in their 20th to 24th weeks
>of pregnancy. A normal pregnancy is about 40 weeks.
>
> The Record report bolstered claims by abortionist opponents that the
>procedure is used by women who simply make a late decision to terminate their
>pregnancy, without compelling medical reasons.
>
>
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