At 10:50 PM 2/12/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
"J.D. Giorgis" wrote:> At least 48 published studies have shown significantly higher risk of > premature birth and low birth weight deliveries among women with a history > of abortion.(1-48) One of the best, a Danish record based study (1), found > the risk doubled after just one abortion. Multiple abortions increase > the risk even more. A doubling of risk among an estimated one-fourth of > delivering women who have a prior history of abortion would result in a > 25 percent rise overall. Can you provide a link to this study? According to _Planning Your Pregnancy and Birth, Third Edition_ by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (copyright 2000), having 1 abortion will have no effect on future pregnancies, but having more than 1 abortion may increase the risk of having a preterm baby. (Page 8.)
Are the statistics the same for spontaneous miscarriages as for medical abortions?
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