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December 19, 2007
Abortion Increases Risk of Premature Birth
The damage done by the liberal sacrament of abortion extends beyond the baby that gets butchered. Even Time magazine admits it:
Abortions increase the risk of low birth weight in future pregnancies by a factor of three, and of premature birth by a factor of two, according to the largest U.S. study of its kind. [… T]he report, published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH), shows one of the strongest links yet between miscarriage or abortion on premature birth and low birth weight — major risk factors for infant death or sickness. […]
The study not only found a link between abortion or miscarriage and low birth weight, but it also found that the risk appears to increase with every subsequent miscarriage or abortion. The accruing risk, says co-author Tilahun Adera at Virginia Commonwealth University, suggests that termination of pregnancy is a true cause of low birth weight and preterm birth rather than a variable associated with such conditions. […]
Women who had had one, two or three prior abortions or miscarriages were three, five and nine times more likely, respectively, to have a low-birth-weight child, the data showed.
No crime goes unpunished. The problem is, sometimes the wrong people are punished.
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Posted by Van Helsing at December 19, 2007 6:52 AM
Comments
Abortion "may" increase the risk of premature birth, but it's 100% guaranteed to increase premature DEATH!
Posted by: Bill at December 19, 2007 8:23 AM
who cares this is a liberal womb problem the less of them in the future the better
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Posted by: furballz at December 19, 2007 9:57 AM
Yeah, ILLEGAL abortions, as all the abortions in this study were since the data is from the 1960s, definitely increase the risk for premature birth. Sort of like abstinence-only education works, until those kids decide to have sex (and apparently a lot of them do judging by the rise in teen pregnancy). When are you going to to start supporting your arguments with relevant data?
Posted by: Sarah at December 19, 2007 8:47 PM
"Sort of like abstinence-only education works, until those kids decide to have sex (and apparently a lot of them do judging by the rise in teen pregnancy)."
Your argument is . The same thing could be said for programs that promote birth control. They only work so long as the kids use birth control. Abstinence programs make sense because it is based on the fact that children are not mature enough to make sexual decisions.
"When are you going to to start supporting your arguments with relevant data?"
Interesting that you should say that, considering that you have not provided any statistics of your own to back up your own assertions.
Posted by: Arthur at December 20, 2007 2:51 AM
Furballz,
There are now 59 studies with relevant data, from the 1990s and beyond, supporting this fact. You might check out the 2006 IOM Report on Prematurity under immutable causes of prematurity.
Navy Doc
Posted by: NavyDoc at December 24, 2007 12:01 PM
