This is huge, since the BJOG is a prestigious medical journal:

16 September 2009

Press Release: Double Abortion Disaster: Cerebral Palsy & Breast Cancer

Source: Brent Rooney (MSc), Research Director – RPRC
web: http://www.justiceforkids.webs.com

email: fullterm40@gmail.com

Today Dr. Prakesh Shah (U. Toronto) had his abortion-preemie 'study of studies' published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Using data from 37 prior studies, Dr. Shah reported that 1 prior induced abortion boosted relative odds of a premature birth by 35%.[4] Abstract:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122591273/abstract

Was it a mere fluke that the Institute of Medicine identified “Prior first trimester induced abortion” as an “Immutable Medical Risk Factor Associated with Preterm Birth” in the 2006 & 2007 editions of its mammoth book about preterm birth?[1]; URL: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11622&page=625 ] On 12 January 2009 three (3) preterm birth heavyweights (Dr. Jay Iams, Dr. Robert Romero & Dr. Robert L. Goldenberg) confirmed the IoM finding in a medical journal of the highest prestige, Lancet, on page 165.[2]

Two 2009 massive studies confirm that women with prior IAs (Induced Abortions) have higher risk of premature (under 37 weeks' gestation) and handicapped newborn babies.[3,4] A woman who delivers a baby under 32 weeks' gestation also doubles her lifetime risk of breast cancer.[5,6] In February 2009 Dr. Hanes Swingle (U. South Alabama) reported that women with prior IAs raised their relative odds of a birth under 32 weeks' gestation by 64%; Dr. Swingle and colleagues used data from 4 prior studies to get that result.[3] Babies under 32 weeks' gestation have 55 times the Cerebral Palsy risk as fullterm (at least 37 weeks ) newborns.[7] Canadian Dr. Prakesh Shah, who is employed by the Mount Sinai Hospital ( Toronto ) and the University of Toronto, and colleagues, using data data from 37 prior studies report that 1 prior IA boosts relative preterm birth odds by 35% but more than 1 prior IA raises preterm birth odds by 93%.[4] Dr. Shah advocates that women receive informed medical consent about the abortion-premature birth of prior induced abortions before the procedure is performed.

But are these two (2) massive 2009 studies enough to demonstrate that induced abortions pose an increased risk of preterm birth and thus CP risk? In the 'Court of Medicine' a 'defendant' new surgery (or new drug) is presumed guilty of serious adverse side-effects until by strong evi- dence it is demonstrated to be 'innocent'. This is the exact opposite of a court of law, where the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. 'Suction' (vacuum aspiration) abortion was invented by doctors in communist China & 'announced' to the world in 1958 in the Chinese Journal of Obstretrics and Gynaecology. Fifty years later the British Medical Journal had that 1958 article translated into English.[8] From 1958 to 2009 there has never been a 'study of studies' ( termed “meta- analysis ) or SYSTEMATIC review that cleared by very strong evi- dence the most common induced abortion procedure, 'suction' abortion , of the risk of a later preterm birth or the low birth weight baby (under 1,500 grams which is 5 pounds 8 ounces) baby.

In 2007 Dr. Calhoun, Dr. Shadigian, & Brent Rooney (MSc) estimated that there were 1,096 newborn U.S. babies under 1,500 grams with CP in 2002 due to their mother's prior induced abortions.[9]

................................................................................................................... References 1 Behrman RE, Butler AS, Alexander GR. Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention. National Academies Press 2007
[ http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11622&page=625 ]

2 Iams JD, Romero R, Culhane JF, Goldenberg RL. Primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions to reduce the morbidity and mortality of preterm birth. Lancet 2008;371:164-175 [ Dr. Jay Iams email:

3 Swingle HM, Colaizy TT, Zimmerman MB, Moriss FH.
Abortion and the Risk of Subsequent Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Reproductive Medicine 2009;54:95-108

4 Shah P. et al. Induced termination of pregnancy and low birthweight and preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis BJOG 2009;116(11):1425-1442 URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122591273/abstract

5 Melbye M, Wohlfahrt J, Andersen A-MN, Westergaard T, Andersen PK. Preterm Delivery and risk of breast cancer. Brit J Cancer 1999;80(3/4):609-613

6 Innes KE, Byers TE. First pregnancy characteristics and subsequent breast cancer risk among young women. International J Cancer 2004;112(2):306-311

7 Himpens E, Van den Broeck C, Oostra A, Calders P, Vanhaesebrouck P. Prevalence, type, and distribution and severity of cerebral palsy in relation to gestational age: a meta-analytic review. Developmental Med Child Neurology 2008;50:334-340

8 Wu Yuantai, Wu Xianzhen. A report of 300 cases using vacuum aspiration for the termination of pregnancy. Chinese Journal Obstetrics Gynaecology 1958:447-449 . English translation: URL: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/data/336/7657/1332-a/DC1/1

9 Calhoun BC, Shadigian E, Rooney B. Cost Consequences of Induced Abortion as an Attributable Risk for Preterm Birth and Informed Consent. J Reprod Med 2007;52(10):929-937

8 Rooney B, Calhoun BC. Induced abortion and risk of later premature births. J American Physicians Surgeons 2003;8(2):46-49 [ URL: http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf ]




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