Here are some studies about abortion’s dangers from the book “Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence”
Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles. Women’s Health after Abortion: The Medical and Psychological Evidence Second Edition (Toronto, Canada: The deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research, 2003)
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A study found that “most dramatic uterine perforations during first trimester abortions are unreported or even unsuspected.”
Kaali SG, Szigetvari, IA, and Bartfai GS. The Frequency and Management of Uterine Perforations During First Trimester Abortions. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1989 August; 161 (2): 406 – 8 P407
A perforation is a cut on the uterine wall. These injuries can cause bleeding and infection.
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“The observed association between induced abortion and an increased risk of the later development of breast cancer is congruent with our understanding of the hormonal effects of pregnancy on a woman’s breast tissue. Prior to her first pregnancy, a woman’s breast is composed largely of connective tissue linking ducts which contain few milk producing cells. Upon conception, a surge of oestradiol reaches twentyfold in the first trimester, triggering an explosive growth of breast tissue, a period when breast cells are most likely to be affected by carcinogens. When a woman completes her first full pregnancy, further hormonal changes propel these newly produced breast cells through a state of differentiation, a natural maturing process which greatly reduces the risk of future breast cancer.
An abrupt, premature termination of the first pregnancy by abortion arrests this process before the cancer reducing evolution of hormone release later in pregnancy can occur, leaving a large population of dangerously stimulated breast tissue cells in place, greatly raising future cancer risk.”
Kelsey, JL, “A Review of the Epidemiology Of Human Breast Cancer” Epidemiologic Reviews, 1979, 1: 74 – 109
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“Animal studies support this model. Russo and Russo exposed two groups of rats to a chemical carcinogen. One group, who mated and carried a first pregnancy to term, developed mammary tumors at a rate of 6%. The other group, who mated, became pregnant, then were aborted (via hysterectomy) developed mammary tumors at an incidence of 78%; virgin rats also developed tumors at a high rate, but not as high as those that were aborted.”
Russo J, Russo IH. Susceptibility of the Mammary Gland to Carcinogenesis. Pregnancy Interruption As a Risk Factor in Tumor Incidence. American Journal of Pathology 1980 August; 100 (2); 497 – 512
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“dilation and evacuation between 12 and 16 weeks… have the potential to cause significant morbidity and mortality.” Because of possible uterine complications, the researchers conclude that such procedures should only be used where intensive emergency treatment can be initiated immediately.”
Trott E., Ziegler W, Levey J. Major Complications Associated with Termination of a Second Trimester Pregnancy; a Case Report. Delaware Medical Journal 1995 May; 67 (5): 294 – 296
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“The greatest consequence of induced abortion for future pregnancy is a rise in the rate of premature births ranging from 30 to 700% Preterm babies weighing less than 1500 grams suffer an incidence of cerebral palsy over 38 times greater than full-term babies. Thus induced abortion tremendously increases a woman’s risk of later bearing a child with cerebral palsy.”
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“The abortion procedure can trigger an episode of PID [pelvic inflammatory disorder] in any woman, but those postabortion women who already have chlamydia are at far higher risk of PID than women who do not carry the organism. Women can be asymptomatic and still harbor chlamydia trachomatis in the lower genital tract. If the abortion clinic does not test for this and prescribe the appropriate antibiotic regime, the woman may only discover the chlamydia while being treated for postabortion PID. By then it may be too late to avoid later fertility problems.”
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“Delay in the onset of symptoms is a critical factor when considering PID caused by chlamydia following abortion. Blackwell and colleagues found from their patient records that women continued to develop symptoms at 11 weeks, 24 weeks, and 36 weeks post abortion. Osser and Persson found it to be variable: if the woman was positive for chlamydia before the abortion, the time of onset for salpingitis (infection of the fallopian tubes) was 14.1 days and for endometritis (infection of the uterus) 8.2 days.… Such complications would not be identified by abortion clinics as immediate sequelae or coded as being related to abortion at all.”
Blackwell AL, Thomas PD,Wareham K, Emery SJ. Health Gains from Screening for Infection of the Lower Genital Tract in Women Attending for Termination of Pregnancy. The Lancet 1993 July 24; 342 (8865): 206 – 10, P209
Osser S., Persson K. Post-Abortive Pelvic Infection Associated with Chlamydia Trachomatis and the Influence of Humoral Immunity. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1984 (November 15; 150 (6): 699 – 703
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