Posted on 09/04/2006 12:48:20 AM PDT by neverdem
There have been a good number of items in the news about life recently -- and one that should have been, but hasn’t. Last week the FDA caved in to political pressure and created an unprecedented new procedure for handing out the morning-after pill (MAP) without a prescription. After the Constitutional Court of Colombia in May abrogated that nation’s democracy on the issue of abortion and legalized it in certain cases, the first legal Colombian abortion was performed. Scientists confused the public further on the issue of embryonic stem cells with more lies.
Perhaps the major media consider August the month for life news, because most ignored the news last month that premature births in America, rising steadily, are due partly to first-trimester abortions. No less a heavyweight, pro-abortion authority than the federal Institute of Medicine said so in a report released July 13. “In 2005, 12.5% of births in the United States were preterm, a 30% increase over 1981 rates,” reported the institute.
The evidence of adverse health consequences for both post-abortive women and their born children continues to accumulate. “Women have the right to know that premature birth is associated with cerebral palsy for children and breast cancer for mothers, regardless of the prevailing ideology of the U.S. elite,” said Karen Malec, President of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Malec noted that perhaps it’s not too surprising that journalists ignored the early abortion-premature birth connection, since it was on page 519 of the report.
Yes, it is listed in Table 5 of Appendix B on page 519, not a very prominent place to acknowledge abortion’s risks -- especially since abortion is so common, with about 1.3 million performed every year. Anyway, in Table 5 of Appendix B, page 519, “prior first-trimester induced abortion” is listed as one of the “immutable medical risk factors associated with preterm birth.”
Abortion’s connection to premature birth should not surprise anyone, both because of the commonsensical notion that a violent interruption of a natural reproductive process is likely to harm the reproductive system, and because “cervical and uterine anomalies” are another risk factor for premature birth. The gouging of the uterine wall and subsequent growth of scar tissue that often take place during and after surgical abortion makes the womb that much the less hospitable for a woman’s next child.
It is also beyond reasonable doubt that the abortion of a woman’s first child makes her more susceptible to breast cancer. “Breast tissue is only matured from cancer-susceptible tissue into cancer resistant tissue during the last eight weeks of a full-term pregnancy,” says the coalition.
“During this time, women receive protection from estrogen overexposure experienced during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.”
The latest report from a major medical institution linking premature birth to abortion is probably something you haven’t read about before now. Here are some items you may have, but without the distortions presented by the major media:
Why add huge doses of steroids -- which is what MAP is--to their problems? Also, it’s an open question if the FDA has the authority to make MAP available over-the-counter but only to adults, which has never been done before.
When this procedure is used to do genetic testing of embryos in fertility clinics, some embryos apparently do not survive the procedure, and the long-term risks for children later born alive are unknown.”As normal life returns to the nation after Labor Day, and an Election Day that could put Congress firmly into the control of pro-death forces looms nearer, expect more distorted stories.
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Yes, it is listed in Table 5 of Appendix B on page 519, not a very prominent place to acknowledge abortion’s risks -- especially since abortion is so common, with about 1.3 million performed every year. Anyway, in Table 5 of Appendix B, page 519, “prior first-trimester induced abortion” is listed as one of the “immutable medical risk factors associated with preterm birth.”
I guess they just consider it 'small print' type info.
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