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world is going after evil things ... The Bible is against the law of
abortion, but people out there still do unwanted sex and then cosider
pregnancy as a problem.
Premature birth (also known as preterm birth) is the birth of a baby
before the standard period of pregnancy is completed. In most systems
of human pregnancy, prematurity is considered to occur when the baby is
born sooner than 37 weeks after the beginning of the last menstrual
period (LMP). The opposite condition, postmature birth, is defined as
birth more than 42 weeks after the LMP. The standard length of a human
gestation is 266 days. However, for convenience most timing is based on
the LMP, with conception being assumed to occur approximately 14 days
after the LMP, making a standard term pregnancy 280 days or 40 weeks.
Premature or preterm birth is defined medically as childbirth occurring
earlier than 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. Approximately 12 percent
of babies in the United States or 1 in 8 are born prematurely each year.
London: Pregnant and planning abortion? Just give a second thought
because it might triple the risk of your subsequent baby being born
premature or underweight which is strongly linked to deaths in the
first week of life. A team of international researchers has carried out
a study and found that women who abort their child are likely to give
birth to premature or underweight babies in future, 'The Times'
reported today. The same holds true for women who have a miscarriage,
according to the researchers.
"Infections or adhesions (due to surgery) in the womb slow the growth
of subsequent babies," lead researcher Tilahun Adera of the Virginia
Commonwealth University in the United States was quoted as saying. The
team came to the conclusion after analysing a data of more than 45,000
births. The records were linked to details of the mother's medical
history, but did not distinguish between abortion and miscarriage.
The data related to 1959-66, when abortion was far less common and
women would have been reluctant to admit to having had one. The
researchers found that a single abortion or miscarriage almost tripled
the risk of low birthweight; two increased the risk about fivefold; and
three increased the risk ninefold. A miscarriage or abortion increased
the risk of a subsequent baby being premature by 70 per cent, two
doubled the risk and three tripled it -- the results are published in
the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Factors, such as
smoking, high blood pressure and heavy drinking were also taken into
consideration.
"Though the study is the largest done in the US, it has limits, the
most salient being the data didn't distinguish between abortion and
miscarriage”.
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