Women who have had two or more abortions have twice as many first trimester miscarriages in later pregnancies. There is a tenfold increase in the number of second trimester miscarriages in pregnancies that follow an abortion.
Placenta previa occurs 6 to 15 times more often after a woman has had an abortion. In this condition your baby’s placenta lies over the exit from the uterus so that the placenta has to be delivered before the baby can get out. This sometimes causes the mother to bleed severely and the baby die.
Your doctor should be sure of your baby’s Rh blood type if you are Rh-negative, so that he can protect you and your next baby against future Rh incompatibilities. These Rh incompatibilities
can require that future babies will need transfusions soon after birth
may cause future babies to be born dead
may cause future babies to die soon after birth
Severe,
Rapid Bleeding
You may develop DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy) from your abortion. This means your blood does not clot and you will bleed uncontrollably. DIC is extremely life threatening and difficult to treat. It occurs in 2-out-of-1,000 second trimester abortions and 6.6-out-of-1,000 (nearly 1-in-150) saline abortions.
Sterility
After an
abortion you may become sterile. This happens in 2-5% of women. The risk of
secondary infertility among women with at least one induced abortion is 3-4
times greater than among women you have not aborted.
Unrecognized Ectopic Pregnancy
Your doctor may try to abort the baby but be unsuccessful because it is developing in your fallopian tube. Unfortunately this tubal pregnancy ruptures later and emergency surgery must be done to save
your life. All women in their first trimester should have an ultrasound to make sure they do not have an ectopic pregnancy.
Death
The best record based study of death following pregnancy and abortion found that women who abort are approximately 4 times more likely to die in the following year than women who carry their pregnancies to term.
Breast Cancer Risks Increase
If a woman interrupts her pregnancy in its early phase, she in effect stops the development of the cells at this unstable, transitional phase. Cancerous changes occur more frequently among these transitional cells. If she aborts more than once before completing a pregnancy, her chance for cancer increases even more, a 3-4 fold increase.
Since the legalization of abortion, breast cancer rates have doubled, and continue to climb.
Conversely, a woman who is pregnant when diagnosed with breast cancer or who gets pregnant after breast cancer, is much more likely to be cured if she delivers a live baby instead of aborting.8
More
Deadly Breast Cancer
Moreover, there are several studies which show that abortion causes a more rapidly growing cancer, having more signs of cancers that are harder to treat1, and is more invasive and more aggressive2. The cancer comes back on average in a
shorter period of time and women die more readily from the cancer3.
Supportive
Research is Plentiful
As of January 1999, 25 out of 31 studies worldwide show more breast cancer among women who aborted.4
In 1981, researchers in Southern California found that an abortion before the first live birth increased risk by 140%.
In 1989, New York State Department of Health data showed that any induced abortion increased risk by 90%, while back to back abortions increased risk by 300%.5
A 1994 study in Seattle shows that abortions done on minors increase risk by 150%.
A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that post abortive African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer.
Dr. Janet Daling’s 6 study in 1994 received worldwide publicity. She found:
- An induced abortion increased the risk of breast cancer before age 45 by 50%.
- If done after age 30, in increased by 110%.
- If she had a family member with breast cancer and aborted after age 30, her risk increased by 270%
- All 12 women in the study with such a family member, who aborted before age 18, got breast cancer before she turned age 45.
- Women younger than age 18 who had an abortion experienced a 150% increase risk. This became an 800% increased risk if they had their abortions between the 9th and 24th week of pregnancy.
Andrieu et al (1994)7
found that women who had a family history of breast cancer and who had two or more abortions had a 600% increased risk.
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after two or more abortions. There had
been a threefold increase in ectopic pregnancies in the U.S. in the
decade immediately following legalizing abortion (1970-1980).
