Abortion puts next baby at risk, too

Read this.

Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy, according to research that will provoke fresh debate over the most controversial of all medical procedures.

A French study of 2,837 births - the first to investigate the link between terminations and extremely premature births - found that mothers who had previously had an abortion were 1.7 times more likely to give birth to a baby at less than 28 weeks' gestation. Many babies born this early die soon after birth, and a large number who survive suffer serious disability.

Very sad.

UPDATE: Should have given the hat tip to Instapunk for this topic. My apologies for not doing so the first time around; I must have gotten rusty on this blogging thing already.