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Summary: Innacurate statistics lead to innacurate science.
Review: Although the medical odds of dying from a legal abortion are 1 in 123,333, Crutcher has us believe that this is the only medical procedure where things go wrong. Conviently ignored is the higher mortality rate of childbirth or getting your wisdom teeth incised before they break the surface.Both procedures also entail some amount of surgery, although they are presumed completely safe for every woman. Of course, he makes no reference to the millions of women who have risked their life pre-Roe to obtain an aboution from those who were not doctors, but this is typical of so many exposes of "legal abortion gone wrong" In reality the complication rate from a legal abortion is comparable to other medical procedures.
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Summary: Ridiculous claims from a would be ambulance chaser
Review: Crutcher goes back to 1968 to make his claims about PAS. He wants to sue physicians for 'damages' done during a valid, legal medical procedure. Women were dying before Roe v. Wade, in an attempt to end unwanted pregnancies. This fellow is nothing but a hustler, trying to convince women that they made wrong choices. What Crutcher is selling I am not buying.
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Summary: Throwing down the gauntlet.
Review: Crutcher makes no bones about his politics on abortion: he wants it stopped, entirely. After reading this book, the reader will have a difficult time disagreeing. His descriptions of events are often taken verbatim from hospital records, court documents, and autopsy reports. They are not for the squeamish, and bring home a reality that numbers never could. A mother describes sitting at the bedside of her dying 13-year-old daughter: "I had to keep my hand pressed over my mouth to keep from screaming in horror." A respected abortion doctor reflects on his fellows: "Following good standards costs money. And people don't want to do that." An abortion clinic nurse describes her work environment: "The real philosophy is, each woman is worth X amount of money and the more women we can see, the more money we can make." Crutcher throws down the gauntlet, challenging those who defend legalized abortion to clean up their act. Yet he argues that ultimately such efforts will fail because abortion inherently contaminates everyone and everything it touches. The first rule of battle is to know your enemy, and Crutcher left no stone unturned. Lime 5 is painstakingly documented, and his sources are unimpeachable. Whether you agree or disagree with his conclusions, he presents a picture of abortion that every American should contemplate. Lime 5 is a must read for everyone.
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Summary: Great research, but Crutcher cripples himself
Review: It's as if Lime 5 were written by two people. Mark Crutcher #1 is the researcher who gathers volumes of information and presents it in a clear and well-documented way that even the most committed pro-choice "true believer" can't refute. Mark Crutcher #2 is the politician who tries to sway public opinion with blanket statements and drawn conclusions that are impossible to verify - and earns as many enemies as friends in the process. The strength of this book is in the volume of anecdotal and statistical evidence, copiously annotated, that tells stories that would make the so-called "mushy middle" of the abortion wars cringe and the hardcore abortion supporters run for cover. The sections on abortion injuries and deaths, as well as medical and sexual misconduct by abortionists, are drawn from sources ranging from newspaper stories to court records. The information is made more credible by the author's forthright admission that the it is anecdotal, and explanation about why it nonetheless can and should be considered reliable. The chapter on the abortion-breast cancer link focuses on scientific studies, with clear descriptions of the methodologies employed and why they are or are not reliable indicators of a link. The weakness of the work is Crutcher's tendency to rant, which does little more than offer abortion defenders an excuse to dismiss the more scholarly aspects of this book. This is especially true in the chapter alleging a coverup by the CDC, in which well-documented events, policies, and conversations are intermingled with below-the-belt jabs which are entirely unnecessary to make the point Crutcher wants to make. And some of Crutcher's analogies throughout the book (e.g. between abortion industry self-regulation and tobacco industry self-regulation), though they have the potential to be quite enlightening, are written so simplistically and condescendingly as to drag down the sophistication of other elements of the book. As an ardent and active pro-life feminist, I didn't really learn anything from this book that I didn't know already (though I did get lots of the sources for many of the stories I had heard). But pro-choicers and fence-sitters could have learned alot. I doubt they will, however, because Crutcher's inability to write an entirely objective scholarly work will probably turn off the very people who need most to read this.
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Summary: Necessary reading
Review: My friend got this book for a speech she had to give on abortion and I read it. Conspiracy theory? X-Files? Sensationalist? I don't think so. I've done some work with the pro-life movement and I've heard enough personal testimonies to know that the atrocities in Lime 5 are not as isolated as the pro-chioce movement would claim. An excellent source for anyone who wants to know more about the abortion industry.
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Summary: The scary thing about it is that it is all true
Review: Of all the books that I've read about abortion, Lime 5 is the most accurate I've come across. It's not a fun book to read, but it's very real...
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Summary: Well-documented
Review: The information found in this book is hard to find elsewhere, but it is well documented. He doesn't make it up. People need to know the risks, especially since the abortion industry is unregulated in comparison to other medical procedures, thanks to politics. I found the information in Lime 5 shocking and depressing. Women fought for the right to abort, and now that same obsession with that right has led to an unregulated industry with serious health consequences. Crutcher outlines these risks in this book extremely well, from the risk of death, sterility, breast cancer, even rape and sexual assault. It isn't a book to be read for pleasure, but it is necessary to be well informed. It is a must read on the issue of abortion.
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Summary: Why the abortion industry is a mess
Review: The information found in this book is hard to find elsewhere, but it is well documented. He doesn't make it up. People need to know the risks, especially since the abortion industry is unregulated in comparison to other medical procedures, thanks to politics. I found the information in Lime 5 shocking and depressing. Women fought for the right to abort, and now that same obsession with that right has led to an unregulated industry with serious health consequences. Crutcher outlines these risks in this book extremely well, from the risk of death, sterility, breast cancer, even rape and sexual assault. It isn't a book to be read for pleasure, but it is necessary to be well informed. It is a must read on the issue of abortion.
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Summary: Incredible book
Review: This book is amazing and the information will startle you. Completely documented and well-written, this book is worth the read and like nothing I've ever ready before. Mark Crutcher truly has a heart for women and children, born and unborn.
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Summary: Required Reading
Review: This book lays out, plainly and factually, the enormously detrimental effects widespread abortion has on our country. Crutcher relies primarily on the statements of abortion providers themselves to give "inside" views of the abortion industry, and reveals shocking revelations about ethical lapses in the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Above all, he lays bare the fact that the abortion industry is more about power and money than it is about any imagined "dignity" of American women which that very industry routinely disregards in abhorrent fashion. If you're "pro-choice" and "intellectually honest", don't hesitate to read this book: it's an illuminating factual story without preaching or pretense. If you don't want to know the facts, I suggest picking up some Planned Parenthood press release instead.
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