WASHINGTON, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Women with a prior history of abortion are twice as likely to use alcohol, five times more likely to use illicit drugs, and ten times more likely to use marijuana during the first pregnancy they carry to term compared to other women delivering their first pregnancies, according to a study published in the newest issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Based on the National Pregnancy and Health Survey, using a nationally representative sample of 2,613 women who had recently given birth, the study led by Dr. David Reardon is reportedly the seventeenth study linking abortion to higher rates of substance abuse. Reardon directs the Elliot Institute and is co-author of the new book, Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion.
The study is entitled “History of induced abortion in relation to substance use during pregnancies carried to term,” and appears in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, December 2002, 187(5):16738.
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More details are available from the Elliot Institute.
(This article courtesy of Steven Ertelt and the Pro-Life Infonet email newsletter. For more information or to subscribe go to www.prolifeinfo.org or email infonet@prolifeinfo.org.)
