This had to kill the New York Times to report. A new study states that abortions raise the risk of preterm births in subsequent pregnancies.
What? A downside to abortion? Who’d a thunk it?
Researchers reviewed the records of 300,858 first-time mothers who had single babies in Finland from 1996 to 2008, comparing the data with a registry of induced abortions from 1983 to 2008. The analysis appeared online Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction.
After controlling for smoking, a history of miscarriage, socioeconomic level and other factors, the investigators found that the risk for very preterm birth — that is, birth at 28 or fewer weeks of gestation — increased with the number of previous abortions a woman had had: a 19 percent increase after one abortion, 69 percent for two, and 278 percent for three.
They also found increased risks for preterm birth (less than 37 weeks of gestation) and for low birth weight, but only in women who had three or more abortions.
Of course, there’s all sorts of caveats thrown in and they downplay it a bit. But this is a big step for the Times.
Hey, why don’t we make Planned Parenthood post the findings of this study on their walls like the government is attempting to force crisis pregnancy centers to post signs?
September 4, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Who are they kidding here? Abortion is the deliberate, premeditated pre-term birth of a dead baby. And the (so-called) mother will think twice because of the possibility of unplanned, un-premeditated pre-term birth of subsequent pregnancies?
I think not.
September 4, 2012 at 4:04 pm
I've heard of a link between preterm birth and autism. Has anyone else heard this? Wouldn't it be amazing if the skyrocketing rate of autism was added to by the prevalence of abortion?
September 5, 2012 at 2:35 am
Of course abortion causes preterm birth; that's what it is. It causes cervical damage, placenta previa and ectopic pregnancy in later pregnancies, septicemia and hemorrhage. The promoters of abortion not only don't care much, they try to silence the women they've deceived and injured by abortion. That's all the proof we need that they don't care about women, choices or health at all. Yet they get more aggressive all the time. No surprises there. The question is, how do we get the truth across to the girls and women most vulnerable to abortoganda?
September 5, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) would be proud. Kill one baby and permanently damage the woman's (or the "human weeds" as she called certain groups) ability to reproduce. She would be proud of such efficiency.