CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE CAUSED BY PREVIOUS ABORTIONS

In this age of technology, one would assume that preterm deliveries during pregnancy would be a thing of the past. But not so. In fact, premature births have increased in the United States by 27% since 1981. So, why are so many babies being born prematurely? The answer is, many young women have made an uninformed decision that ultimately weakened their cervix; the organ that retains the baby in the womb until they are full term and ready to be delivered. Numerous women, who are choosing to terminate an unintended pregnancy, are inadvertently negatively impacting their future pregnancies and children .

A normal cervix is very rigid and tightly closed, and only opens upon the delivery of the baby. In order to perform an abortion, the cervix must be stretched open with a great deal of force. It is during this forced dilation that microscopic tearing can occur, and occasionally, even severe ripping of the uterine wall. According to various hospital studies, up to 12.5% of first trimester abortions require stitching for cervical lacerations. Whether the damage is microscopic or macroscopic, there can be permanent weakening of the cervix. This type of cervical damage is directly related to the stunning increase of premature births. A Rooney and Calhoun study stated, “the abortions preceded the premature births,“ and that “the association is strong.” Also, at least 59 studies have demonstrated a statistically significant increase in premature birth or low birth weight risk in women with prior induced abortions.

Early preterm infants, those born before 32 weeks gestation, comprise 15% of the premature population, but 80% of the neonatal deaths. Early preterm infants also constitute a majority of those with serious disabilities, including mental retardation, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, lung infections and cerebral palsy.

In Poland during the late 1980s, during a period of time when abortion was legal in that country, about 100 children a year were dying before the age of five from cerebral palsy. However, Poland banned abortion 20 years ago, and along with that ban came a 20% decrease in extreme preterm birth weight babies. Between 2004-2006 the number of children who died from cerebral palsy was down to between 5-9 per year; a greater than 90% drop. Also, Polands’ maternal mortality plunged by more than 40% and their infant mortality has decreased by 25% . On the other hand, Polands’ neighbors, Russia and Hungary, where abortion is still legal, have among the highest maternal mortality in the world. Ireland, another country where abortion is illegal, boasts very low maternal deaths. Both Poland and Ireland enjoy lower maternal mortality than the United States, the richest country in the world, but where abortion is legal and results in over 1.2 million elective abortions per year.

Understanding and addressing the risk factors for the preterm birth ‘epidemic’ is crucial because low birth weight and preterm births are the most important risk factors for infant mortality or later disabilities, including cerebral palsy and lower cognitive abilities. Not only is the human cost immense, but the economic cost required to care for the overwhelming number of premature babies is a severe challenge to the medical care system.

Since induced abortion is considered the most common surgical procedure in the U.S., it is imperative that women have full and complete disclosure, about any and all information pertaining to the damages that could be incurred from that procedure. If they don’t receive it, then their consent isn’t truly informed, and they are denied their right to a fully informed decision. Rooney and Calhoun state, “As the liability costs for cerebral palsy are exceptionally high, induced abortion, particularly without very detailed informed consent, may carry an unsupportable legal liability. Courts may not require definitive proof of causation; the existence of a number of positive studies, in absence of definitive refutation, may be sufficient reason to include discussion of a potential serious adverse effect in obtaining informed consent.”

Not only are women entitled to know the complete truth about potential problems and damages pertaining to their medical decisions, it is the law.

Karen L. Lewis
Education Director, Alaska Right to Life

I’m sure that everyone hates being lied to, as I do, but it’s especially disturbing when women are dying because of the cover-up pertaining to the abortion/breast cancer association. However, the tide is turning. U.S. National Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Louise Brinton, who previously stated that “abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk,” has reversed her position and now admits that abortion and oral contraceptives raise breast cancer risks. An April 2009 study by Jessica Dolle of the Fred Hutchinson Research Center, found abortion raises breast cancer risk by 40%. Data has been confirmed by 75% of the worlds’ scientific literature and shows that abortion is a causal factor in the development of breast cancer in the same way that cigarette smoking is a causal factor for lung cancer. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study in October 2007 that showed abortion is the ‘best predictor of breast cancer.’

Over the past 35 years, breast cancer has increased by 40%. In 1975,1 in 12 women would develop breast cancer. In 2004, the risk has increased to 1 in 7 women. Breast cancer was once rare among Alaska Native women, but over the past 32 years, Alaska Native women have seen breast cancer rates skyrocket from 40 cases in 100,000 women from 1969-1973, to 132 cases per 100,000 women from 1999-2004. The cases have over tripled! Is anyone connecting the dots between abortion and breast cancer here?

There are three major influential factors pertaining to breast cancer: faulty genetic inheritance or damage to DNA, the amount of exposure to estrogen, and breast lobule maturation. Only 15% of women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease. However, medical evidence shows that ductal breast cancers account for over 80% of all human breast cancers. At the end of puberty, over 70% of the breast tissue consists of Type 1 lobules. These are the units of breast tissue consisting of milk glands and a duct, which are immature, and susceptible to cancer. This is why there is a 50% increased risk of breast cancer to those women who have an abortion before their first live birth. The good news is, after a woman undergoes her first full term pregnancy, the majority of Type 1 lobules in her breast, which are the place where ductal cancers begin, transform into Type 3 lobules, which are cancer resistant. Even so, all aborted women are still at increased risk of breast cancer.

Estrogen has been listed as a carcinogen (cancer causing agent) by the National Cancer Institute since 2001. It was found that estrogen can initiate cancer cells to form. Basically, women whose bodies experience more exposure to estrogens, whether natural or synthetic (such as birth control pills) have a higher risk of breast cancer than women who experience less exposure. Progestins seem to increase the risk of breast cancer at least as much, and maybe even more than estrogens. Experiments done by the World Health Organization on women around the world showed that women who had been injected with long-lasting progestin contraceptives such as Depo-Provera for at least 2 years before the age of 25, has doubled their risk for developing breast cancer. Science also shows that heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and breast cancer are increased by hormonal treatments such as HRP. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer rates decreased by 10% between 2000-2004 because of reductions in the use of HRP.

Dr. Angela LanFranchi, a New Jersey breast surgeon, and the newly elected President for the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, declared under oath that members of the nations’ medical elite are aware that abortion causes breast cancer. They refuse to admit this fact publicly because they believe it’s “too political.” Others have remained evasive, and some are openly hostile.

Question: Why did the Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization that raises money for breast cancer research, contribute $700,000 to Planned Parenthood? Does the Komen Foundation Board of Directors not understand that Planned Parenthood, Inc. is the largest abortion provider in this nation and throughout the world?! Either the Komen Foundation is completely ignorant, or they are artfully deceitful. They are contributing to the disease they proclaim to try to cure.

You can reduce your risks for developing breast cancer ; avoid putting artificial chemicals into your body (such as birth control pills) and don’t have abortions.

Karen L. Lewis, Education Director