Found this on the Drudge Report:
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.
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.
From my understanding of things, there's also a rather high deathrate among aborted children, too, but I haven't seen any medical studies on THAT phenomenon!
Posted by: Papaefidelis | Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 10:05 PM
And yet the "culture of death" pro-abortion left thinks it's "unconstitutional" for women contemplating abortion be given warnings about the complications of this procedure. In a world where every square inch of my car is covered with warning labels ... where the walls of the pool at my gym are so plastered with warnings that it looks like a wallpaper pattern ... where even the plastic bags that my cleaner puts around my shirts warn how the bag can kill me ... it's somehow "unconstitutional" to let women know all the risks and complications from this procedure.
Yup, put a warning that my swiming pool can cause drowning, but secret about the real, hidden risks of a highly invasive medical procedure (psychologically, as well as physically). How liberal.
Posted by: retrofuturistic | Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 11:11 PM