"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> 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?
No. Spontaneous miscarriages don't seem to be a factor in the risk of
having a preterm baby, and most women who have spontaneous miscarriages
early in a pregnancy go on to have healthy babies on the subsequent try.
(There are exceptions, and the impression I have from talking to various
people is that more of the miscarriages are experienced by fewer of the
women.)
Julia
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