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Evidence Demands We Take a Closer Look
Mental Health
Abortion & Mental Health: “…meta-analysis identified 22 studies which strongly supported an association between abortion and mental health problems. An overall 81 percent greater risk of mental health problems for women who had an abortion compared to those who did not…”
(Coleman PK. Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995-2009. British Journal of Psychiatry 2011; 199(3): pp. 180-6; 200(1): pp. 77-80.)
These include increased risk:
• Anxiety disorders – 34%
• Depression – 37%
• Alcohol use/abuse – 110%
• Marijuana use/abuse – 220%
• Suicide behaviors – 155%
• All mental health risks – 81%
Suicide
A large-scale, linkage study in Finland found that within one year of the end of pregnancy, the suicide rate associated with childbirth was six times lower than the suicide rate associated with abortion.
(Gissler M, Hemming E, Lonnqvist J. Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987-94; register linkage study. BMJ 1996 December; 313(7070): pp. 1431-4.)
A methodologically rigorous study out of California, based exclusively on data linkage has also come out with little coverage or recognition of the facts. Medical records were linked to death certificates for 172,279 low-income women who underwent a state-funded delivery or induced abortion in 1989. Four years later the annual suicide rate among the women who terminated their pregnancies was found to be 160 percent higher than among the women who gave birth. When the effects of previous psychiatric history were removed, the relative risk for women who had abortions actually, Increased, compared with the women who delivered their babies to term.
(Reardon DC, Ney PG, Schemer FJ, Congle JR, Coleman PK. Suicide deaths associated with pregnancy outcome: A record linkage study of 172,279 low income American women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2001; 3(4 Suppl.2): p. 104
Breast Cancer
The Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer: “There are now 56 studies that show a positive association between abortion and breast cancer, of which 35 are statistically significant.” In 2007, an actuary found that abortion was the greatest predictor of breast cancer incidence in nine European countries…”
(Carroll P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based on abortion and other risk factors. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. 2007 September; 12(3): 72-8
WOMEN’S HEALTH FACTS
There are 1.7 Million new Breast Cancer cases worldwide every year.
Breast Cancer kills 500,000 people across the world annually.
1 in 8 North American Women will develop Breast Cancer in their lifetime. A number which has risen from 1 in 12 just 40 years ago, in spite of the fact that at least $1.5 Billion is spent on breast cancer research every year.
500,000 women in North America have a premature baby every year.
11,000 of those children die on the day that they are born. And the care of the rest costs billions of dollars, not to mention puts those children at high risk of numerous development disorders that will change the course of their lives forever.
Every year 40 to 50 million women worldwide have an abortion. That’s 125,000 women having an abortion each day. 1 Million women per year in the United States. Some claim up to 1 in 3 North American women will have an abortion in their lifetime.
For more research Information click here
Excerpt from Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women 2nd edition
Dr. Angela Lanfranchi’s rebuttal to the NAS webinar from 3/2018
• Hormonal Contraception and Violent Death: The Physiological and Psychological Links – https://smartwomenshealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2021/08/fnbeh-15-667563.pdf
Medical Compared with Surgical Abortion
Immediate complications after medical compared with surgical termination of pregnancy
Abstract
Objective: To estimate the immediate adverse events and safety of medical compared with surgical abortion using high-quality registry data.
Methods: All women in Finland undergoing induced abortion from 2000-2006 with a gestational duration of 63 days or less (n=42,619) were followed up until 42 days postabortion using national health registries. The incidence and risk factors of adverse events after medical (n=22,368) and surgical (n=20,251) abortion were compared. Univariable and multivariable association models were used to analyze the risk of the three main complications (hemorrhage, infection, and incomplete abortion) and surgical (re)evacuation.
Results: The overall incidence of adverse events was fourfold higher in the medical compared with surgical abortion cohort (20.0% compared with 5.6%, P<.001). Hemorrhage (15.6% compared with 2.1%, P<.001) and incomplete abortion (6.7% compared with 1.6%, P<.001) were more common after medical abortion. The rate of surgical (re)evacuation was 5.9% after medical abortion and 1.8% after surgical abortion (P<.001). Although rare, injuries requiring operative treatment or operative complications occurred more often with surgical termination of pregnancy (0.6% compared with 0.03%, P<.001). No differences were noted in the incidence of infections (1.7% compared with 1.7%, P=.85), thromboembolic disease, psychiatric morbidity, or death.
Conclusion: Both methods of abortion are generally safe, but medical termination is associated with a higher incidence of adverse events. These observations are relevant when counseling women seeking early abortion.
Preterm Birth
The link between prematurity and abortion is strongly supported by research. Women who have had one or more induced abortions have a significantly higher rate of prematurity or preterm birth and low birth weight in subsequent pregnancies. One meta-analysis found that the adjusted risk of prematurity (meaning under 37 weeks gestation) increased by 27 per cent after one abortion, and 62 per cent after two or more abortions.1 Another meta-analysis yielded similar increased risks, and also found that the risk of having a very premature delivery (meaning under 32 weeks gestation) increased by 64 per cent after an abortion.2 This link remained even after controlling for factors such as income. Other studies have yielded even higher risks of bearing a preterm child.3 This increase in risk is usually due to a weakened cervix or infections resulting from abortion.
In the four years since this Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women was first published, the body of evidence regarding the link between induced abortion and subsequent premature births has grown. A New Zealand study found that women with a history of two to four previous abortions experienced more than twice the risk of spontaneous preterm birth than women with no abortion history.4 Various recent studies conducted in Brazil, Scotland, the U.S., and Russia have provided supporting evidence for the link between increased risk of premature or preterm births affecting subsequent pregnancies following a surgical or late abortion.5
There are various health risks associated with premature birth. Infants who do not reach a gestation age of 37 weeks have a much lower chance of reaching adulthood.6 Prematurity increases the risk of disabilities such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, psychological and behavioural disorders, and epilepsy.7 In addition, a premature baby whose mother has had any prior abortions has a 60 per cent higher risk of cerebral palsy than a premature baby whose mother has had no prior abortions.8 Prematurity is also a major risk factor for autism. One study reported that 25 per cent of children born prematurely met autism criteria, which is five to ten times higher than the general autism rate in North America.9 A few studies have looked directly at the abortion-autism link. Burd and colleagues found that the children of mothers who had experienced one or more induced abortions had a 236 per cent increased risk of giving birth to a child with autism.10
1. Shah PS, Zao J. Induced termination of pregnancy and low birth weight and preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analyses. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology May 2009; 116(11): 1425-42, p. 1439.
2. Swingle HM, Colaizy TT, Zimmerman MB, Morriss FH. Abortion and the risk of subsequent preterm birth. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine 2009 February; 54(2): pp. 95-108.
3. Hardy G, Benjamin A, Abenhaim HA. Effect of induced abortions on early preterm births and adverse perinatal outcomes. JOGC 2013 February; 35(2): 138-43, Table 2, p. 141.
4. McCarthy FP, Khashan AS, North RA, Rahma MB, Walker JJ, Baker PN et al. Pregnancy loss managed by cervical dilatation and curettage increases the risk of spontaneous preterm birth. Human Reproduction 2013; 28(12):3197-3206. doi:10.1093/humrep/det332.
5. See Ch. 15 of Complications: Abortion’s Impact on Women, Second Edition: Revised and Updated
6. Moster C, Lie RT, Markestad T. Long-term medical and social consequences of preterm birth. NEJM July 2008; 359(3): 262-73, p. 262.
7. Ibid.
8. Jacobsson B, Hagberg G, Hagberg B, Ladfors L, Niklasson A, Hagberg H. Cerebral palsy in preterm infants : a population-based case-control study of antenatal and intrapartal risk factors. ActaPaediatrica 2002; 91: 946-51, Table 2, p. 948.
9. Limperopoulos C, Bassan H, Sullivan NR, Soul JS, Robertson RL, Moore M, Ringer SA, Volpe JJ, du Plessis AJ. Positive screening for autism in ex-preterm infants: prevalence and risk factors. Pediatrics 2008 April; 121(4): 758-65, p. 758.
10. Burd L, Severud R, Kerbeshian J, Klug MG. Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for Autism. Journal of Perinatal Medicine 1999; 27(6): pp. 441-50, p. 447.
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