Letter: Lies, damn lies

Sunday 27 December 1992 00:02 GMT

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I WONDER if Rowland Morgan would provide a suitably precise percentage figure for his own miscalculations ('Crunchers go crackers', Review, 20 December).

One must accept his miles of cigarette butts and his super- tanker loads of litter, but his figure of 114,000 abortions a minute did indeed have such a 'burst of savour' to it that I reached for my calculator. Unless every female on the planet, irrespective of her age, averages one abortion a fortnight, his figure is excessive.

Hamish Scott

Salisbury, Wilts

The figure should have been 114 abortions a minute worldwide. We apologise.

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