{"id":248771,"date":"2021-07-13T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248771"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T21:18:38","slug":"researchers-abortionists-abortion-second-trimester-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/researchers-abortionists-abortion-second-trimester-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers and abortionists agree: Second trimester abortions are \u2018significantly\u2019 more dangerous to women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every abortion kills a human being and carries risks to the health of the mother, but those risks increase as the gestational age of the child increases. This fact is one of the driving forces behind Mississippi’s 2018 law restricting abortion to the first 15 weeks (four months) of pregnancy, which is being challenged in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> case set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> in the fall of 2021.<\/p>\n

The law, HB1510<\/a>, states, “Abortion carries significant physical and psychological risks to the maternal patient, and these physical and psychological risks increase with gestational age. Specifically, in abortions performed after eight (8) weeks’ gestation, the relative physical and psychological risks escalate exponentially as gestational age increases.”<\/p>\n

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18-week preborn child in second trimester (Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

The law sources research published in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Library of Medicine: Risk factors for legal induced abortion-related mortality in the United States<\/a>. That study found that a woman’s risk of death from abortion increased by 38% for each additional week of gestation. Compared to women who underwent abortions at or before eight weeks (two months), women who underwent abortions in the second trimester were found to be “significantly more likely to die of abortion-related causes.” The results showed that “[u]p to 87% of deaths in women who chose to terminate their pregnancies after 8 weeks of gestation may have been avoidable if these women had accessed abortion services before 8 weeks of gestation.” In truth, abortion is not medically necessary<\/a> \u2014\u00a0and therefore, all of these women’s deaths were “avoidable.”<\/p>\n

In addition, as previously reported<\/a> by Live Action News:<\/p>\n

Research\u00a0published<\/a> by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, found… the \u201crisk of septic (life-threatening blood infection) abortions is markedly increased with advanced gestational age.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Additional research published in Obstetrics and Gynecology revealed that\u00a0\u201clate-term abortions carry a\u00a091 times greater risk of death<\/a>\u00a0than first trimester abortions.\u201d And research published by BMC Women\u2019s Health<\/a> found that \u201c[g]estational age and the method of surgical abortion have been reported to be the most significant and interrelated factors that cumulatively affect abortion-related morbidity\u201d and that the risks of complications \u201cincrease exponentially with increasing gestational age.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The risks, as described by abortionists<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abortionists have described why the risk of death for women increases so drastically as gestational age increases. Abortionist Willie Parker wrote in his book, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice,” that the risk increases because “[e]verything is more difficult in second trimester abortion… In these procedures, the risk of serious complications increases… [because] in a second trimester abortion I have to evacuate her uterus differently.”<\/p>\n

He added, “There’s a higher chance of perforating the uterine wall with the forceps or doing damage to an adjacent organ, and a higher risk of leaving some part of the pregnancy [fetal body parts] behind: part of the placenta can get stuck on scar tissue from a [previous] caesarean, for example.”<\/p>\n