May 16, 2013 Dear ProLife Colleague, The North Carolina Senate is considering a bill that would require schools to teach in the health cirriculum about causes of preterm birth—including induced abortion. There is huge fire coming from Planned Parenthood and Teachers Union people on twitter. Bill sponsors are worried that they may lose some supporters. The bill is through a second reading. FYI, This is the bill: http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/billlookup/billlookup.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S132 North Carolina prolifers, and peope just interested in truth, would really appreciate your help if you tweet. Please tweet: SB132 requires students be educated on settled science that abortion increases risk for future preterm birth. #NCGA http://bit.ly/15ZU1R9 Now would be a good time to do it. Our readers are aware of the overwhelming evidence in the medical literature that induced abortion is a risk factor for preterm birth. Most academic organizations choose to either ignore or to trivialize the association, for reasons that seem to favor a politically correct stance. Evidence often is overshadowed by politically correct “science.” For a look as an excellent new overview article by Dr. Martin McCaffrey MD, Pediatrician and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Pediatrician, go to: http://www.ncfpc.org/FNC/1305-FNC-Spring13-Abortion’sImpactOnPrematurity2.pdf We urge you to give it a careful reading. Notice particularly 2 things: 1. The risk of prematurity increases, in a “dose effect” with one or more induced abortions. 2. Abortion is linked not only with preterm birth, but it is even more strongly linked with VPB (<32 wks), the babies that have a much higher incidence of various morbidities than the less premature “preemies.’ That these realities are basically ignored by medical associations is a travesty resulting from politically correct medicine. There are currently 137 scientific articles reporting on the link between abortion and a future preterm birth. Two well designed meta analyses now demonstrate that just one prior abortion increases by 36 and 64% respectively the risk for a future preterm and very preterm birth. Two or more abortions increases the risk for a future preterm birth by 93%. It is long overdue that based on the scientifically proven risk abortion poses for future preterm birth that we educate sexually active women and men of the unspoken risk abortion poses for a woman's future reproductive health. Jdc/AAPLOG
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