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DanielLC comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 06 March 2011 09:16:57PM 1 point [-]

The number of deaths that would be caused by dangerous abortions is far lower than the number of abortions that would be prevented.

Comment author: magfrump 07 March 2011 12:42:20AM 0 points [-]

I suspect that that is true, although I would not be surprised if it wasn't "far" lower; I would expect more than 5 but less than 100 abortions stopped per complication from a dangerous abortion. I don't have any figures to back that up though. I'd be interested to see if anyone has done any work on the subject.