Abortion Raises Risk of Miscarriage of Subsequent Pregnancy 60 Percent

Life News ^ | 12/5/06 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A team of British doctors has released the results of a new study showing that women who have an abortion run a higher risk of having a miscarriage in a subsequent pregnancy. The study also showed that women using in-vitro fertilization have higher miscarriage risks as well.

The doctors, affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the reasons behind the increased miscarriage risk were vague.

However, they confirmed that women who had had a previous abortion experienced a 60 percent higher risk of having a miscarriage in another pregnancy.

Women using the in-vitro technique had a 40 percent greater risk of suffering a miscarriage.

In the study, Dr. Noreen Maconochie examined data from 603 women between the ages of 18 and 55 who had experienced a miscarriage during the first 13 weeks of their pregnancy. They compared those results with 6,116 women whose pregnancies advanced beyond 13 weeks.

The team published their findings in the British Journal of Gynegology.

This isn't the first study to show that abortions adversely affect a woman's fertility as other research shows that abortion can lead to infertility by increasing the risk of miscarriages.

A 1986 report in the medical journal Epidemiology reveals women with a history of abortion have a greater risk of fetal loss than women who had no previous abortions. Women with two prior pregnancies carried to term and no abortions had the lowest risk, while women with two prior abortions had the highest risk.

Meanwhile, a 1991 British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology article revealed that women with a history of abortion had a 1.5-1.7 times higher risk of ectopic pregnancy than women who had previously carried a pregnancy to term.

[wagglebee]

More FACTS that will NEVER be reported by the leftist media.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life Ping

[Always Right]

More FACTS that will NEVER be reported by the leftist media.

Shoot, the ACLU will probably get a federal judge to rule it is criminal to even repeat what is in this report.

[Halls]

I knew this a long time ago and it is said these type of studies are not widely known!

[dfwgator]

If you mess with the plumbing, odds are it's going to spring a leak eventually.

[BfloGuy]

The way "scientific" data is thrown around these days, this information will just disappear. We're smarter to keep the discussion focused on the moral issue of killing a human being.

[graf008]

I thought this was well-known?

[Emmett McCarthy]

No, it's well-covered up and well-denied. Which is all that the left is good at.

[graf008]

The BBC had a few articles on it...but you are right.

[Blogatron]

THIS is why millions are being spent on fertility treatments by women still well within child-bearing age. Past catches up with you.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"London, England (AHN) - According to a new study, thin or skinny women who get pregnant are 72 percent more likely to miscarry in the first three months of pregnancy than their normal weight counterparts. However, the risk can be reduced up to 50 percent by eating the right food or taking multivitamins like folic acid, say researchers.

The researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine carried out their study on 603 British women aged 18 to 55 who had miscarried within three months of getting pregnant.

BBC reports that the new research also indicated that eating fruit and vegetables, and also chocolate, daily helped reduce the risk of miscarriage.

Those classed as underweight had had a body mass index under 18.5.

Additionally, unmarried women or those living with a partner were also at a greater risk than those who "planned" their pregnancies. Planning parents were 40 per cent less likely to miscarry than those for whom conception was an accident.

The research also discovered that woman who separated from their partners after becoming pregnant increased her odds of a miscarriage by 60 per cent.

If a woman has had a previous abortion, it also raised the chances of a subsequent miscarriage by more than 60 percent, while fertility problems were associated with 41 per cent higher odds..."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005718460

[madprof98]

Our MSM will certainly not print this because it's obviously just propaganda from anti-choice forces. The real truth is that abortion is a holy sacrament. That is all the news about it that is fit to print.

[Elsiejay]

Are there no studies on thie relationship of abortion to the high incidence of premature births? Deep concern over the high rate of less than full term births is frequently a subject of anguished press reports, and whenever I see such an article I wonder about the role of abortion. I used to read discussions about the "incompetent cervix" problem, but that seems to have disappeared from the list.

[graf008]

You didn't mean that - abortion is a sacrament? Not in my church.

US MSM won't - strangely British did...

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

The in-vitro/miscarriage link has been known for some time. However, according to earlier articles I've read on this, it is not clear whether IVF actually somehow *causes* a higher miscarriage rate, or whether it is simply better reported in the case of women going through IVF. Remember, many naturally occurring pregnancies are not planned, and early miscarriages happen fairly often (I've seen one estimate of 25%) without women even realizing that's what has happened. They often just think their period was late and then they had a heavy period.

[traviskicks]

Is this for real? Never heard of this, I'd like to read a lit review on the subject...

[TigersEye]

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Studies Find Abortions Have Long-Term Effects

45,951,133

Total Abortions since 1973

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)

[neverdem]

We're smarter to keep the discussion focused on the moral issue of killing a human being.

A lot of folks could care less about morality. You need other arguments for them. I'll take all the ammo I can get.