“Thousands of physicians across the United States, each of whom has cared for hundreds of mothers and infants during their respective years of practice, state firmly that they have never in these thousands of pregnancies seen a single instance where the life of the infant had to be sacrificed to save the mother, nor have they seen a situation where a mother has been lost for failure of the physician to perform an abortion. In fact, in more than 13 years of obstetrical practice, I never lost a mother from any cause… With today’s advanced medical knowledge and practice, a “therapeutic” abortion is never necessary, because competent physicians, using the latest medical and surgical techniques, can preserve the lives of both the mother and the child.”
Dr. John L Grady, former Chief of Staff at Glades General Hospital in Florida
Quoted in Kent Kelly Abortion (Southern Pines: Calvary Press, 1981) 96
If this was true in 1981, and must be even more true today, more than 30 years later, when medicine has advanced
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