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Latent Morbidity after Abortion SIR,-Therapeutic abortion is now one of the operations most commonly performed in the U.K., and it is right that the short-term and long-term hazards should be fully explored.Unfortunately, the report by Margaret and Arthur Wynn, of which you write so eulo- gistically in your leading article (3 March, p. 506), presents no new data, and its only true contribution is polemical.Dr. D. M. Potts (24 March, p. 739) has already shown that the interpretation by the Wynns of the risks of subsequent ectopic pregnancy, low-birth-weight babies, and con- genital malformations were erroneous.Simi- larly Mr. A. D. R