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Women Having Abortions Increase Premature Birth Risk 34% for Next Pregnancy

A study in the United Kingdom finds women who have abortions are 34 percent more likely to deliver a subsequent baby prematurely when they become pregnant again, and to suffer from other pregnancy complications.

The team of scientific researchers at the University of Aberdeen examined more than 1 million pregnancies in Scotland over 26 years and found that women who have one abortion increase their risk of premature birth in a subsequent pregnancy by 34 percent.

Women who have a historic risk of giving birth prematurely up that risk another 73 percent [in subsequent pregnancies] when they procur an abortion. [www.lifenews.com, 6 July 2011]

NOTE: A normal pregnancy period is 40 weeks in length.

Babies allowed to go full-term suffer the least risk of danger.

Labor that occurs prematurely, or that is induced early (prior to 39-40 weeks), can lead to many complications for the child -- some life-long -- including lung/breathing problems, cerebral palsy, and related consequences if the baby was not "ready" to be born.

 
PP: Helping or Targeting? Stopping Injustice PDF Print E-mail

Recently a young woman at San Jose State University received a copy of You Can Stop Injustice-HLA's exciting new campus supplement.

Her response was typical of students who read our materials:

Before I read your papers, I didn't have much against abortion before 3 weeks of pregnancy, but now that I know the procedure, it opened my eyes to the pure evil behind it all... No life is worth less than another, we are all equal and are all sent to earth for a reason. God loves us all... I am 110% against abortion!     A life is a life...

With responses like this, no wonder we have requests to develop new materials to reach other populations.

HLA's second edition of Did You Know? is designed to fill this need for an educational resource that reaches the African American community with the pro-life message.

New articles such as "A Planned Parenthood Insider Speaks Out," "Targeting our Children" and "Abortion & Premature Birth" makes Did You Know? an essential element of your pro-life tool kit.

78% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in poor and minority neighborhoods.

In fact, Planned Parenthood's latest fact sheet illustrates how their business progressed between 2007 and 2008:

Adoption referrals plummeted dramatically from 4,912 in 2007 to 2,405 in 2008.
Prenatal clients dropped from 10,914 in 2007 to 9,433 in 2008.
Surgical abortions increased from 305,310 in 2007 to 324,008 in 2008.

 
We can see that the United States' largest abortion chain is really about abortion-and nothing else.

We know they target African Americans and other minorities.
[November 11, 2010, www.humanlife.org
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