Science > Abortion > Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy
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27 Oct 2007 09:55:05 PM |
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Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy |
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07102602.html
Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral
Palsy
31.5% of children born with very low birth weight due to prior induced
abortions
By Hilary White
VANCOUVER, Canada, October 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An article
appearing in this month's edition of the Journal of Reproductive
Medicine concludes that nearly 32 per cent of "very-preterm" U.S.
births, that is, before 32 weeks gestation, are due to the mother
having had a prior abortion. This information, combined with previous
research in the relation between low birth weight children and
cerebral palsy (CP), results in an estimated 1,096 children suffering
from CP because of their mother's prior abortion.
The 2002 data examines 4,021,726 births, 4,021,726 preterm babies and
72,751 very-preterm babies.
The study's authors, with the Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition based in
Vancouver, are Dr. Byron Calhoun an obstetrics and gynecology
professor at Western Virginia University, Dr. Elizabeth Shadigian,
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan and Brent
Rooney the research director. They concluded that prior induced
abortion is a significant risk factor in very pre-term births and
cerebral palsy.
The research backs up previous findings published in 2006 by Dr.
Richard E. Behrman of Stanford University's Institute of Medicine,
that named "prior first trimester induced abortion" as "immutable
medical risk factor associated with preterm birth".
Very pre-term babies have much higher than normal risks of suffering
medical problems including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism,
epilepsy, blindness, deafness, lung impairment and serious infections.
The estimate combines a study of 58,717 newborns with a birth weight
under 1500 grams (3 pounds 5 ounces) most of whom were very-preterm.
Calhoun estimated that since 31.5 per cent of children born with very
low birth weight are due to prior induced abortions. Approximately 7.7
per cent of children with very low birth weight develop CP, at least
1,096 cases of CP are directly associated with the mother's prior
abortion.
The article further estimated a direct cost to the health care system
of abortion-related pre-term babies at US $1.2 billion in 2002. This
estimate did not include long-term costs for ongoing, often life-long
medical expenses and lost income such children will suffer.
The article is listed in the Journal index as:
Cost Consequences of Induced Abortion as an Attributable Risk for
Preterm Birth and Impact on Informed Consent
B. C. Calhoun, E. Shadigian and B. Rooney
Induced abortion contributes to significantly increased initial
neonatal health costs, >$1.2 billion, and 1,096 excess cerebral palsy
cases per year in the United States
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
1,100 Excess Brain Damaged Babies are Born Yearly in US Due to
Previous Abortions
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04042209.html
New Study Confirms Abortion Increases Risk of Future Premature Births
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042906.html
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| User: "Bruce Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy |
28 Oct 2007 06:41:58 AM |
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Christopher A.Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:38:10 GMT, "Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
Read and obey the Bible.
Why should we read the irrelevant scriptures of somebody else's
religion, let alone obey them, moron?
I obey the rodent Goddess and sacrifice a double cheese pizza on a fire every
Saturday night in her honour while listing to 1970's Ringo Starr solo albums.
It's what my prophet commands me to do.
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| User: "Kelsey Bjarnason" |
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| Title: Re: Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth andCerebral Palsy |
02 Nov 2007 06:31:27 AM |
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:35:01 -0400, Christopher A.Lee wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:38:10 GMT, "Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
Read and obey the Bible.
Why should we read the irrelevant scriptures of somebody else's
religion, let alone obey them, moron?
Because his dead guy on a stick is actually an all-powerful entity who
couldn't actually die on a stick, as we know because when they put his
body in a cave and forgot to watch it, the body disappeared, which could
only happen by a miracle - you know, miracles, those things that don't
actually happen - and as a result of this we know there's this invisible
thing in the sky who loves us all so much he condemned us all to die, and
is so just that he has punished all for the acts of one, but as long as
you live according to a bizarre and arbitrary code mostly stolen from
other works, this being will forgive you and save you from his own
decisions, but only after sending his own offspring down to be killed to
show how much he loves us and how he wants us all to be happy so he
threatens us with eternal torment.
Don't you see how *obvious* it is? How logical? How compelling? How can
you *not* want to run right out and believe, and follow, and obey?
I mean hell, it's not like, oh, say, science and law and culture and
suchlike. They keep changing. Can't rely on 'em. This stuff, though,
hasn't changed in millennia, so obviously the rules and guidance that
applied to unschooled goatherds with no real medicine, reliable food
supply, sanitation and the like are just as applicable to the modern world
of jets and computers and heart transplants and worldwide trade in goods.
Yes, it is all so clear, so compelling. I can feel the call of it, it
beckons me, I can feel it building, deep in my gut, a pressure, building,
growing, threatening to burst forth with a new life...
Oh, wait. My mistake. That's just a reaction to the curry I ate. 'Scuse
while I go run for the loo.
Yu'shua died on the cross for our sins,
Where did you prove this in the real world outside your religion before
rudely and stupidly presuming it?
And assuming he did, who are *we* to disappoint him? Let's get naked and
party!
again and walked the earth.
Prove it, question-begging moron.
Prove? No, no. One does not *prove* such things. One simply *believes*
them. It's all faith. You know, you paint the names of all the gods on a
giant 1,000 sided die, roll it, and just have absolute faith that whatever
came up is the one, true, real, honest-to-goodness supreme power of the
universe, the creator, the shaper, the inducer of gastrointestinal
distress... oh, wait, that's the curry again.
We are awaiting the Third Coming aka The Day
Of
Judgment.
Don't be so in-your-face, rudely stupid.
Ah, let him wait. As long as he waits *somewhere else*.
--
Waiting for wine: Grape Expectations. -- Marty Leipzig
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy |
28 Oct 2007 06:00:40 AM |
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:38:10 GMT, "Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
What does this have to do with can.politics?
It has nothing do do with anything other than Young's desperate need
for attention - even if it's negative.
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| User: "Church" |
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| Title: Re: Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy |
28 Oct 2007 06:48:37 AM |
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John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:38:10 GMT, "Greg Carr" <gregpcarr@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
What does this have to do with can.politics?
It has nothing do do with anything other than Young's desperate need
for attention - even if it's negative.
Few know that when Luciano Pavarotti was autopsied, he was found to be
pregnant.
See you in Church today.
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