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2nd-trimester abortion help(Researchers Kill 110 Babies to Determine Which 'Device' Works)
Health24 (HealthDayNews) ^ | 4/10/2003

Posted on 10/07/2003 8:00:51 AM PDT by truthandlife

A low-tech, hand-held vacuum aspiration device works as well as a more expensive electrical unit for ending second-trimester pregnancies, say researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. They compared the two devices while performing second-trimester abortions on 110 women with an average gestation of 16 weeks. Manual vacuum aspiration was used on 73 women and electric vacuum aspiration on 37 women.

No difference in procedure time The study found no significant differences in procedure time between the two groups of women. There were no reported complications.

Manual vacuum aspiration is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for first-trimester abortions, but had not been tested for second-trimester abortions.

Good news for developing nations Now that we know the low-tech device is safe and effective, it can be taught to doctors in developing nations to help reduce the prevalence of unsafe abortions and complications, senior author Dr Paul Blumenthal, associate professor of gynaecology and obstetrics, says in a news release.

The electrical aspiration devices and the power required to operate them are often not available in developing countries. - (HealthDayNews)


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KEYWORDS: 2ndtrimester; abortion
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To: BMiles2112
Frm the looks of it, MOST FReepers are pro-choice, wetting themselves over Schwartzenkennedy.
61 posted on 10/07/2003 11:21:08 AM PDT by dangus
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
PING. Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
62 posted on 10/07/2003 11:21:26 AM PDT by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: ArrogantBustard; DittoJed2
There's really no way to do that without killing a whole lot of people, which seems to be their plan.

Yep. Some seem in favor of slow death for 3rd worlders via malnutrition and starvation.

In talking with a group of people (all highly educated, most w/2 graduate degrees), the conversation got around to genetically modified food.

one enlightened soul said that, even though it 'sounded bad,' we should not allow 3rd worlders to have GM food because it would increase the population. it would be better if they died.

as the only person of color in the group, i was a little miffed, but not surprised, that no one said anything against this racist statement. i finally had to say something about it and why don't we stop feeding little white kids here in the us as that would also decrease world population, etc.

ever since seeing the conservative light, i have come to believe that liberalism is simply racism wearing nicer sheets. the liberal line is - as a person of color, you are inadequate and therefore need affirmative action and our (white) help, you need to be bussed to white schools because you can only learn if sitting next to a white kid, and it's ok to kill brown and black kids so that the world will remain in some imagined, pre-human pristine state.

even in my most leftist, socialist worker party days, it never occured to me that it was ok to doom people to starvation because i didn't approve of how they were being fed.

63 posted on 10/07/2003 11:22:25 AM PDT by radiohead
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To: truthandlife
It is past time for Christians in America to wake up and repent of political idolatry! God is not Republican or Democrat!


Wanting to prevent this is "idolatry?"

As John Quincy Adams said, "Duty is ours; results are God's."

It is your duty to make sure the racist will win? The preferred candidate of Planned Parenthood? The man who believes that those who break the law should be rewarded? This is Christian duty?

Whether we win or lose, whether we sit at the table or eat on a blanket in the back yard, whether we receive any phone calls from the White House

Your assertion that Christians vote for less than perfect government over outright evil government because we want to be kissed up to is unjustified and arrogant.

Heck, in a field with 135 candidates, there's probably some guy with .0001% in the pols who is an even more godly man or woman than McClintock. Why not fulfill your Christian duty and vote for him/her? Why not write in a candidate who you think would be ideal? Heck, write me in, I'm a hard-core pro-lifer and fiscal conservative. Of course, you'll be helping a racist pro-abort get elected, but you can go to sleep knowing you endorsed me, a guy who would have been a great governeor if he could have gotten a few tens of millions more people to vote for him.

64 posted on 10/07/2003 11:25:05 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: Mr. Silverback
"Research on better ways to administer the Zyklon B go on..."

I assure you, it's for a "good" cause.

65 posted on 10/07/2003 11:26:44 AM PDT by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: truthandlife
Why do I feel the same as if the FDA had just announced a cheaper and safer substitute for Zyklon-B?
66 posted on 10/07/2003 11:26:50 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Oddball: "A . . . tank can give you an . . . edge.")
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To: radiohead
"I will not vote for any politician who will promote abortion or the culture of death, no matter how appealing the rest of his or her program might be. They are wolves in sheep's garments, the KKK without the sheets, and sadly enough, they don't even know it."

Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap.

67 posted on 10/07/2003 11:32:55 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard
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To: truthandlife
The Party of Death vs. The Party of Slow Suicide

It isn't about parties. Do you really think I'm advocating Arnold because he has "(R)" in front of his name? Get a grip. As someone pointed out earlier in the thread, useless gestures don't save babies.

There are people who voted for Ross Perot in '88 and '92 "on principle" and we got 8 years of Clinton. I don't see how that would be any less stupid and wasteful if you changed his platform to absolute perfection. On September 11th, we reaped the fruits of voting on "principle" to help Bill Clinton into office.

68 posted on 10/07/2003 11:35:21 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: BibChr
If you keep repeating that long enough, will it eventually kill off that nagging conscience?

I guess you can hope.
69 posted on 10/07/2003 11:35:57 AM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: truthandlife
Over 40 million American Children murdered since Roe v Wade

Thats a lot of votes and taxes and a work force replaced
by illegal aliens

Given that many of these would have had children by now...could be a 100 million citizens
America is missing...

Thats a Holocaust ...the secret one...the shame of America....

You can bet God sees...and those who support this Holocaust...are in essence anti-American
imo

The right to life liberty and pusuit of happiness doesnt seem to apply to the pre born citizens of America

Arnold is no conservative...never has been ...never will be...
70 posted on 10/07/2003 11:36:21 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Mr. Silverback
The Republicans blew it by not pressuring Arnold to step aside.

….a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll released earlier this week shows that McClintock is not exactly unknown, nor is he as negatively viewed as either Schwarzenegger or Bustamante. Consider the following results of a poll of probable voters: Is the Party Establishment Right About the Recall?

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Favorable: 63
Unfavorable: 30
Never Heard Of: 0
No Opinion: 7

Tom McClintock
Favorable: 62
Unfavorable: 20
Never Heard Of: 4
No Opinion: 14

Cruz Bustamante
Favorable: 37
Unfavorable: 54
Never Heard Of: 3
No Opinion: 6

71 posted on 10/07/2003 11:42:11 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Thank you, Madame Clio.
72 posted on 10/07/2003 11:43:27 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: dangus
Frm the looks of it, MOST FReepers are pro-choice, wetting themselves over Schwartzenkennedy.

I was disgusted by those who backed Arnold over McClintock right out of the chute. All conservatives should have spurned Arnold and united to back Tom to the hilt. But now, we find ourselves in a situation where we have the choice between a GOP pro-abort and a racist pro-abort who wants to reward illegal immigrants.

Oh, and let's not forget that Cruz is OK with this...


73 posted on 10/07/2003 11:45:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
Of course McClintock should have been the establishment GOP candidate. But at this point he can't win, so a vote for him is a vote for a man who embodies everything that makes the Democrats the bad guys-- Racism, higher taxes, not just pro-"choice" but militantly pro-abortion, no interest in proper security, etc.

I take back what I said earlier to truthandlife about voting for perot (or McClintock) being a wasteful act. No one who votes in Cali today will be throwing their vote away. Every vote will either help or hurt the chosen candidate of Planned Parenthood, NOW, NARAL, the L.A. Times, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, MECHA, etc., ad nauseum, Cruz Bustamante.

Helping the guy endorsed by the abortion industry: Man the pure goodness of such an act just gives me the vapors.

74 posted on 10/07/2003 12:05:30 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
If you keep repeating that long enough, will it eventually kill off that nagging conscience? I guess you can hope.

A vote that makes it more likely that the chosen candidate of Planned Parenthood makes it into office doesn't sound like a pro-life vote to me.

If the next Al-Qaida strike is carried out by a guy with a Cali "illegal immigrant deluxe model" driver's license issued by a secretary of state working for Governor Bustamante, how's your conscience going to be doing?

75 posted on 10/07/2003 12:11:02 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: Mr. Silverback
*laugh* *shudder* good point. The irony though is that McClintock does best among independents and Democrats.. If Republicans supported him, he'd win.
76 posted on 10/07/2003 12:18:33 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Mr. Silverback
Arnold is very pro-abortion. On this issue he is not much different from Cruz or Gray.
77 posted on 10/07/2003 12:27:57 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Mr. Silverback
I appreciate your many posts and those of truthandlife. Both SOLID Conservatives.
78 posted on 10/07/2003 12:35:42 PM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
Arnold is very pro-abortion. On this issue he is not much different from Cruz or Gray.

No kidding. But the fact remains that Arnold isn't pro-abortion enough for any of the abortion industry lobby groups, Bustamante is, and pro-lifers who get in the booth today and vote for McClintock are going to be helping Cruz, nothing more. Their vote will not help one baby make it out of the womb alive, but it will help put a racist in office who has been endorsed by every hateful enemy of our cause from Kate Michelman and Jesse Jackson to Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. And I reiterate...

"If the next Al-Qaida strike is carried out by a guy with a Cali "illegal immigrant deluxe model" driver's license issued by a Secretary of State working for Governor Bustamante, how's your conscience going to be doing?"


79 posted on 10/07/2003 12:50:14 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
I appreciate your many posts and those of truthandlife. Both SOLID Conservatives.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

80 posted on 10/07/2003 12:55:59 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. Couldn't park anywhere near the place."--Steven Wright)
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