{"id":229775,"date":"2020-09-06T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229775"},"modified":"2020-09-04T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T02:38:26","slug":"researchers-aborting-first-child-future-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/researchers-aborting-first-child-future-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say aborting first child makes a woman more likely to abort future pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aborting a first child makes a woman more likely to abort in future pregnancies, claims a new study published<\/a>\u00a0in the Journal of\u00a0Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. This study is a first-of-its-kind, population-based analysis. Funding for the project came in part from the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), the research arm of SBA List, a pro-life organization.<\/p>\n

Study authors\u00a0\u2014\u00a0James Studnicki Sc.D., MPH, MBA, Dr. John W. Fisher, Christopher Craver, and Tessa Longbons of CLI, David C. Reardon of the Elliot Institute, and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians\u00a0and Gynecologists (AAPLOG)\u00a0Executive Director Dr. Donna J. Harrison \u2014\u00a0looked at\u00a07.3 million pregnancy outcomes of Medicaid-eligible women over 13 years of age occurring from 1999-2014 in 17 states which allowed for the use of state taxpayer funds to pay for abortions.<\/p>\n

Women who abort their first pregnancies are more likely to have subsequent abortions<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The study found that pregnant women who aborted their first or “index” child were more likely to experience an abortion\u00a0following each subsequent pregnancy than women who gave birth or experienced a loss during their first pregnancies. These women were also increasingly likely to have an abortion (rather than a birth) with each subsequent pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Women who gave birth or experienced natural losses during their first pregnancies were more likely to have another birth (rather than abortion) with each subsequent pregnancy.<\/p>\n

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Live Birth v Abortion in a subsequent pregnancy<\/p><\/div>\n

Researchers found that “[w]omen under the age of 17 who experience an index birth<\/em>\u00a0[first pregnancy resulting in a live birth] were more likely to experience another birth rather than an abortion for subsequent pregnancies… At the second pregnancy, they are 5.8 times more likely to have a birth than an abortion. By the fifth pregnancy, they are 2.2 times as likely.” Results remained consistent among other age groups, but the authors noted that\u00a0“women 36 [plus] are the most likely to select birth rather than abortion for subsequent pregnancies,” unless their first pregnancy<\/span>\u00a0was an abortion.<\/p>\n

Black women who aborted first pregnancies more likely than other races to have subsequent abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n

While authors found a similar result among differing races, they discovered that outcomes related to the first pregnancies “had significant racial differences.”<\/p>\n