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To: GovernmentShrinker

You do not know the medical science and actually do not know what you are talking about. If you do know how to do a Google search, you should have looked at the infant mortality rate in the former USSR, the premature births and low birthweight. The infant mortality rate is twice that of the US.
Russia: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/russia_statistics.html
US: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/usa_statistics.html

1st miscarriage - probably no correlation with future pregnancies. 2nd - still little concern, but watch and wait. 3rd - "habitual" with high rate of future miscarriages.

Any gynecological procedure can lead to infection and bleeding that can result in sterility. Birth as well as abortion, but the abortion is the "elective" procedure.

Even the abortionists note that previous abortions increase the risk of future premature births, low birthweight, placenta previa and "mood disorders substantial enough to provoke attempts of self-harm."
The article is:
"Long-Term Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Induced Abortion: Review of the Evidence"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12544786&dopt=Abstract
but it's pay per view. I can freep mail it to anyone who would like a copy for study.


375 posted on 03/24/2005 6:56:34 AM PST by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
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To: hocndoc
you should have looked at the infant mortality rate in the former USSR, the premature births and low birthweight.

Infant mortality rate correlates with general economic and environmental factors. The former Soviet Union was in some ways a 3rd World country. Pollution was at an alarming level, nutrition was marginal, and alcoholism was epidemic (the last is still true, unfortunately). And perhaps more significantly, people were sufficiently miserable and pessimistic about the future, that they weren't very interested in having children. The birth rate was quite low, and I seriously doubt that most women were availing themselves of even the skimpy prenatal care that was available.

Infant mortality, low birth weight, and related infant and maternal health problems are also present at extremely high rates in underdeveloped countries where abortion is rare.

Even the abortionists note that previous abortions increase the risk of future premature births, low birthweight, placenta previa and "mood disorders substantial enough to provoke attempts of self-harm."

I don't doubt the reality of the correlation between these factors, but I've never seen any evidence of a causal relationship. Taken as a group, women who have abortions, and especially those who have repeated abortions, are disproportionately likely not to have their heads and lives under control to begin with. They can't or won't use contraceptives effectively, and that is highly correlated with drug and alcohol abuse, poor nutrition, low education and income levels, abusive relationships, and generally high-stress living conditions. It's hardly surprising that this group shows a disproportionate propensity for low birth weight, prematurity, and mental illness -- in fact it would quite startling if they didn't. If you took a group of women who showed such symptoms after one or more abortions, and then pulled together an otherwise demographically matched group of women who had not had abortions (yet), I'm quite sure they'd show a virtually identical rate of these ills.

376 posted on 03/24/2005 10:26:05 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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