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Black Women: Higher Premature Birth Rates

Black Women Have Higher Premature Birth Rates From Having More Abortions

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new research paper finds African-American women are at risk for higher rates of premature and extremely premature birth because they tend to have abortions at higher rates than women of other ethnicity. Canadian researcher Brent Rooney and colleagues published the results in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. They say abortion is the "probable cause" of the high pre-term birth rate among black women because a prior induced abortion increases the risk of premature birth. According to the new research paper, black women are three times more likely to have an early pre-term birth before 32 weeks gestation and four times more likely to have an extremely pre-term birth before 28 weeks gestation in comparison with women of other ethnic groups. While black women represent 12.5% of American females they have 38.2% of all abortions, according to the authors. "About 43% of pregnancies in black American women end in induced abortion. It is likely that induced abortions are an important risk factor for premature birth and that they help to explain the racial disparity," they write. Rooney and his colleagues noted that, between 1980 and 2005, the U.S. pre-term birth rate rose 43 percent -- and those years follow the tens of millions of abortions done after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
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I think this comes down to educating the public on the long term cost of abortions. So many young ladies do not realize sex is not a hand shake. Cancer , poor birth weight , abnormalities and just even conceiving are long term effect or premarital sex and abortions. I will leave rape out of this as it is a whole issue on its own.


FYI guy prostate cancer is very real as well not to mention supporting a child while you try to educate yourself. I now way am I talking down to young couples who marry and decide to start families young and struggle though the issues.