Abortion Facts

Why Abortion Can Endanger Your Life

A child is not part of the plan. One common reason why women choose to have a social abortion is to avoid radical changes in their current lifestyles. They are not ready to raise a child or that a child will seriously limit their choices. They might think that a child will ruin their lives and so they choose to have an abortion. Ironically, when women undergo abortion, they put their own lives in danger.

Abortion can lead to death. Many doctors who perform abortion downplay this dangerous fact, claiming that abortion is a similar to any surgery. But not all surgeries are the same. A surgery to remove a hard callous from a foot is not similar to invading the uterus and scraping out a mass of developing human being. Abortion not only kills the fetus but endangers the life of the pregnant woman.

One life-threatening danger of abortion is uterine injury. Using the methods of dilation and curettage, an abortionist uses forceps to yank out the larger pieces of the unborn baby and then inserts a curette to scrape out the remaining smaller pieces. The abortionist performs all these without any guidance from an instrument like a laparoscope, which means that the danger of puncturing the uterine wall is high. Worse, the patient’s bowel can be injured too.

No abortion provider can assure that this danger is absent. In fact, when it happens, neither the abortionist nor the patient may be aware of it. It will take several days before the patient realizes that something went wrong. When the uterine lining is destroyed, the woman who underwent abortion can die. Sadly, the death of such a woman will be reported as blood poisoning.

Another life-threatening danger of abortion is cancer. For women who have family histories of breast cancer, undergoing an abortion jack up the risk of dying from cancer. Interestingly, women who give birth and breastfeed their children have lower risks of having breast cancer.

Women who underwent abortion may also have pelvic inflammatory disease or PID. It is an infection caused by the same bacteria that causes Chlamydia. The abortion procedure somehow allows the bacteria to reach the fallopian tubes where they cause infection and inflammation, leading to abdominal pain, foul smell, bleeding, fever and infertility.

PID cases can be cured by antibiotics if diagnosed during the early stages. For women who underwent abortion, the early symptoms of PID, such as abdominal pain, are usually ignored. But the swollen fallopian tubes, the scarred uterus, and the collected pus inside the ovary lead to shock, and eventually, death.

Women who underwent abortion and then finally decide to have a child in later life are in danger of having ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage. Ectopic pregnancy is dangerous because the growing embryo is attached to the tube and not inside the uterus. If not treated immediately, the expectant mother dies along with the unborn child.

Describing abortion as a health risk is an understatement. The numerous cases of death within a few weeks after abortion all point to the same direction: abortion is extremely dangerous.