Mr Temporao says that around 200, 000 women are treated for complications following abortions every year, the vast majority of them believed to have taken place in illegal clinics involving a high degree of risk for the women.
Round the number down to about 2, 000 per year. Abortion supporters have always inflated the numbers to gain sympathy for their cause.
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If you're going to challenge a statistic, provide a citation for it. Otherwise, it's just a number you made up yourself. The WHO estimated 68,000 deaths from "unsafe" abortions for the year 2000. So we can assume the complication count to be higher than that number.
(1) Reducing the numbers to 1% of those cited isn't just "rounding down." Some people do exaggerate figures (such as you obviously are doing in reverse here), but multiplying (or dividing) by a factor of 100 isn't exaggerating -- that is called "lying." I don't know about the figures you cited originally, but I do know that your treatment of them is totally dishonest.
(third) You are not now, and never have been, a doctor, and you aren't even entitled to use the title you still lay claim to. You are a liar and a fraud.
He's still a fraud for calling himself "Doc" because he can't reasonably expect the vast majority of civilians to know that "Doc" is nothing more than a lame nickname for corpsmen. He has to know that he's tricking people into believing he has more substantial medical knowledge than he actually does. He's presenting himself as a medical expert when really all he did in the Navy was take temperatures and apply Band-Aids.
Confused?
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