{"id":13368,"date":"1976-08-07T16:19:00","date_gmt":"1976-08-07T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:28:33","slug":"correspondence-the-canadian-abortion-law-authors-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13368","title":{"rendered":"(Correspondence) The Canadian abortion law (authors’ reply)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wendell W Watters, May Cohen,Linda Rapson<\/h4>\n\n\n
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On the issue of complications following legal abortion, Dr. Coffey quotes Jeffcoate, whose antiabortion views are widely known, and the Wynn report, a document compiled by two crusaders for “compulsory pregnancy’s who used data inappropriately in an attempt to substantiate their personal beliefs. . . Results of studies in Aberdeen, England and Sweden suggested that women denied a safe legal abortion – that is, the victims of compulsory pregnancy – were more likely to experience emotional distress than women who were allowed to exercise reproductive responsibility by the use of the option of legal abortion. In other words, compulsory pregnancy is bad medicine. Dr. Coffey makes another statement that is contradicted by modern evidence. The notion that abortion tends to be used as a method of primary birth control does not square with the evidence from the Population Council . . . .We can trace the enactment of antiabortion laws throughout history to policies of demographic aggression. . . .the Quebec government, in a state of demographic panic over its low birth rate, harassing our colleague Dr. Henry Morgentaler; and Canada competing demographically with the United States: all such irresponsible behaviour is potentially more lethal than nuclear holocaust. For almost a decade the United Nations has granted people the world over the right to plan their families without any interference from the state. This is a paper right until it extends, de facto<\/em> as well as de jure<\/em>, beyond conception to the point of potential viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watters WW, Cohen M, Rapson L. (Correspondence) The Canadian abortion law (authors’ reply)<\/a>. Can Med Assoc J. 1976 Aug 07;115(3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendell W Watters, May Cohen,Linda Rapson ExtractOn the issue of complications following legal abortion, Dr. Coffey quotes Jeffcoate, whose antiabortion views are widely known, and the Wynn report, a document compiled by two crusaders for “compulsory pregnancy’s who used data inappropriately in an attempt to substantiate their personal beliefs. . . 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