Canadian researchers who reviewed 37 case studies have confirmed a long-noted link between abortions and premature births as well as low birthweight babies.

Women who had undergone more than one abortion had a 72 per cent increased risk of having low birthweight children and a 93 per cent increased risk of having a premature baby. The study also found that women who had an abortion in the first or second trimester had a 35 per cent increased risk of giving birth to a low-weight baby and a 36 per cent increased risk of having a premature baby.

Now, what do you think would be the logical response to that? Yes, you guessed: make abortion safer.

The authors of the study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, stress that further studies are needed to assess the impact of new ways of carrying out an abortion,… click here to read whole article and make comments