You need to have a baby.

Revealed: how an abortion puts the next baby at risk

By Michael Day
The Telegraph, UK
Sunday, May 15, 2005

Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of
giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy,
according to research that will provoke fresh debate over
the most controversial of all medical procedures.

A French study of 2,837 births - the first to investigate
the link between terminations and extremely premature
births - found that mothers who had previously had an
abortion were 1.7 times more likely to give birth to a
baby at less than 28 weeks' gestation. Many babies born
this early die soon after birth, and a large number who
survive suffer serious disability.

[Caption] Peter Bowen-Simpkins: 'termination may have
late complications'

The research leader, Dr Caroline Moreau, an
epidemiologist at the Hôpital de Bicêtre in Paris, said
the results of the study, which appear in the British
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, provided
conclusive evidence of a link between induced abortion
and subsequent pre-term births.

Last night anti-abortion campaigners seized on the
evidence to demand that all women seeking a termination
be warned, routinely, that they are jeopardising the
well-being of future babies. A series of earlier, smaller
studies had failed to provide clear evidence of a link
and so women currently opting for an abortion are not
warned of the risk.

Dr Moreau said: "Clearly there is a link. The results
suggest that induced abortion can damage the cervix in
some way that makes a premature birth more likely in
subsequent pregnancies."

Her study compared the medical histories of 2,219 women
with babies born at less than 34 weeks with another 618
who had given birth at full term. Overall, women who had
had an abortion were 40 per cent more likely to have a
very pre-term delivery (less than 33 weeks) than those
without such a history. The risk of an extremely
premature baby - one born at less than 28 weeks - was
raised even more sharply, by 70 per cent. Abortion
appeared to increase the risk of most major causes of
premature birth, including premature rupture of
membranes, incorrect position of the foetus on the
placenta and spontaneous early labour. The only common
cause of premature birth not linked to abortion was high
blood pressure.

Mr Peter Bowen-Simpkins, a spokesman for the Royal
College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a
consultant obstetrician at the Sancta Maria Hospital in
Swansea, said the study revealed that abortion might not
be as safe as previously supposed. "This study shows that
surgical termination of pregnancies may have late
complications and may not be without risk," he said.

About 185,000 women have abortions in Britain each year,
for social or medical reasons, and last night anti-
abortion campaigners seized upon the new study as
evidence that the risks have been underplayed.

Jack Scarisbrick, the chairman of the campaign group
Life, said: ''We have been saying for years that surgical
abortion inevitably increases the risk of later problems.
It seems that the abortion procedure carries with it
risks that women will know nothing about until they
become pregnant with a 'wanted' child later on."

About 80,000 babies in the UK and Ireland are born
prematurely each year; 17,000 of these need intensive
care.

A spokesman for Marie Stopes International, which is the
largest provider of abortions outside the NHS, said that
women seeking terminations were not told of increased
risks of premature births "because so far, they have not
been established".

24 March 2005: MPs call for abortion law review
19 March 2005: Unborn baby pictures fuel abortion debate

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I wonder how long it will take our liberal media to
report on this study?

The study's findings are somewhat intuitive. When you
start mechanically invading the depths of the human
reproductive system it would naturally follow that there
are lasting consequences.

Please share this information. Many lives will likely be
saved by the widespread dissemination of this study,
especially among women.

Posted on 5/20/2005 1:17:26 AM PDT by Got a right to
Life? . . Huh?

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