A new meta-analysis of studies involving more than one million women has found that abortion is associated with a “significantly higher risk” of premature births and underweight babies.

LifeSiteNews.com is reporting on the analysis of 36 international studies and published in this month’s American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology which found that a prior abortion or miscarriage was associated with a 52 percent increased risk of premature birth along with a greater risk of lower gestational birth weights.

Commenting on the results of the study, Brent Rooney of British Columbia’s Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition noted that the study, led by Dr. Gabrielle Saccone and her research associates, was actually the fourth meta-study to validate the higher risk of premature delivery of babies for women with induced abortion history.

In fact, as early as 2004, the State of Texas required that every woman seeking an abortion be offered a booklet entitled “WRTK” for “Women’s Right to Know” which summarized the health risks of abortion. The booklet states that according to “some large studies”, a woman’s risk of delivering prematurely doubles if she has had two induced abortions. For women who experience four or more abortions, there is an 800 percent increase in the risk of premature birth.

“Very premature babies, who have the highest risk of death, also have the highest risk for lasting disabilities, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, lung and gastrointestinal problems, and vision and hearing loss,” the booklet warns.

Abortion advocates have tried to counter these devastating findings, such as a 2013 report in DoubleXScience by journalist Tara Haelle who admitted that surgical abortions can cause premature births, but only in the days when abortion procedures were performed without softening the cervix first.

As LifeSite reports, her article, entitled, “Maternal abortion history no longer a risk for preterm birth,” cites a single Scottish study from 2012 that analyzed data over three decades to conclude that new pre-operative treatments since the year 2000 had eliminated the tissue damage caused by older abortion methods and thus reduced the risk of subsequent premature birth.

However, as Rooney points out, the much larger Saccone study, which was not conducted by biased scientists, included post-2000 era studies.

As a result, Rooney concludes that as of May, 2016, “abortion-preemie denial became impossible.”

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