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Statistics Canada), the complication rate and this being for immediate complications of early abortion is 4.5%.

According to the Wyn report with statistics from 12 counties, women who have a previous induced abortion have their

ability to bear children in the future permanently impaired. There is a 5-10% increase in infertility. The chances of these

women having a pregnancy in the tube increases up to 4 times. Premature delivery increases up to 50% and when one

realizes that prematurity is the commonest cause for infants being mentally or physically defective, having cerebral palsy

or other difficulties, then one realizes that those doctors doing abortions in great numbers south of the border or across

the water, even in Canada may not be doing the women and her family a service. They will tell you that abortion has

almost no complications. What most of them will not tell you, is that once the abortion is done they may refuse to see

the women again and that she must take her post-abortal problems elsewhere. Those seeking repeal of the present

abortion law will rapidly point out that nevertheless, it is safer to have a legal abortion than illegal abortions, safer for the

women that is. This I don not dispute, but here is the real rub. Liberalized abortion laws do not eliminate illegal, back

street abortions and in some cases, the overall number of illegal abortions actually rise, usually stays stagnant, and rarely

falls. There are still people who would rather try it themselves or go somewhere they will be completely anonymous.

Another factor enters the total number of people seeking abortion, legal or illegal rises. The overall pregnancy rate

rockets and people become careless with contraception and a women can have 3 or 4 abortions during the time of one

full term pregnancy. Are doctors really being kind to the girl to allow her to choose life or death for her unborn child? In

aborting a 16 year old this year with so-called informed consent, we may be preventing her from having even 1 or 2

children 10 years later when happily married. No, repealing the abortion law does not make it possible for every

women to safely eliminate, what is for her, an unwanted pregnancy. Would limiting abortions to accredited hospitals

make it safer? Yes, safer for the women, not for the fetus and it would jeopardize the continued well being of all of the

members of the community with the gross misuse of the medical manpower, hospital facilities and money. With almost

31,739 abortions performed in Ontario in 1989, the cost to OHIP is about 9 million dollars. Yet to do as has been

done in the U.S.A and the United Kingdom – namely to make legal, abortions is to turn so-called ‘backstreet butchers’

into legal operators. Patients now go into the office through the front door instead of the rear. I have heard it said that is

abortions became available on request, many less children would be born and we could use the pleasant delivery suites

and postnatal beds for abortions. As I have pointed out, however, before today, liberalization of abortion does not

reduce the birth rate. There would be little increase in available facilities or indeed doctor’s time. By the very nature of

the operation and because the longer pregnancy lasts, the more difficult it is, patients for abortions are admitted as

urgent cases or emergencies so that all other members of the community must wait longer for their hospital bed or the