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Two 2009 massive studies confirm that women with prior induced abortions have higher risk of premature (under 37 weeks' gestation) and handicapped newborn babies. A woman who delivers a baby under 32 weeks' gestation also doubles her lifetime risk of breast cancer. 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. Babies under 32 weeks gestation have 55 times the Cerebral Palsy risk as full-term (at least 37weeks ) newborns. Canadian Dr. Prakesh Shah (U.Toronto) and colleagues, using data from 37 prior studies report that one prior induced abortion boosts relative preterm risk by 35% but more than 1 prior induced abortion raises preterm risk by 93%. Dr. Shah's 'study of studies' will appear in the October 2009 issue of the very prestigious British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (BJOG).[2]

But are these two massive 2009 studies enough to demonstrate that induced abortions pose an increased risk of preterm birth and thus cerebral palsy risk? In the 'Court of Medicine' a 'defendant' new surgery (or new drug) is presumed guilty of serious adverse side-effects until by strong evidence 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 and 'announced' to the world in 1958 in the Chinese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Fifty years later the British Medical Journal had that 1958 article translated into English. From 1958 to 2009 there has never been a 'study of studies' (termed “meta-analysis) or SYSTEMATIC review that cleared by very strong evidence 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).

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

Brent Rooney is Research Director of Reduce Preterm Birth Coalition Breast Cancer risk: http://bcpinstitute.org/booklet4.htm web: http://www.justiceforkids.webs.com email: fullterm40@gmail.com