Abortions can lead to premature baby problems
Filed under: Premature babies — Alan @ 10:34 am
A new study suggests that women who choose to have an abortion are more likely to have children that are born prematurely or with a lower birth weight than desired a Canadian study reports.
The study was published in BJORG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and included 37 case studies concerning woman who had more than one abortion before having children.
The research concluded that the more abortions a woman had experienced the more likely there were to be complications during labour that was carried to full term.
According to the report, women who had over one abortion had a 72% of bearing children with low birth weights and had a 93% higher risk of going into premature labour.
Additionally, women who had an abortion during their first or second trimester were found to have an increase by 35% of having a low weight baby and 36% chance of premature labour.
The authors of the study point to new non-invasive ways to have an abortion such as taking pills to reduce the risks of premature labour and low birth weights in the future for women who plan on having children down the line.
Editor in chief of the BJOG, Professor Philip Steer stated that the study within the magazine on abortion highlights the fact that abortions need to be made safer for women and that ToP is still an important part of healthcare for women.
With this in mind he continued to say that it is important to always be re-evaluating what the benefits and risks are of different methods.
