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Dr. John Willke, writing in Life Date, the Journal of Lutherans for Life (U.S.) Spring 2004, investigated claims that the 1993 Polish law making abortion illegal would result in damage to women. Only 1214 abortions were recorded in 2001. "In 1955, before the law was passed, 59,000 miscarriages were listed: in 1999 there were 41,000. That certainly didn't look like something driven underground, but maybe they were hidden in another source such as deaths due to pregnancy and birth? In 1990, 70 women died; in 1996, only 21. How could this be? "I investigated further potential hiding places... I asked for the statistics on neonatal deaths: in 1990, 19 premature infants died for every 1,000 live births; in 2001, the figure was 7.7."
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