The CHRT concludes saying the causes of premature birth are complex and not fully understood.
Again could abortion be an under appreciated cause of premature births? Amy Soble, the editor of the Post-Abortion Review, a quarterly publication of the Elliot Institute, quoted a Canadian study from the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2009 showing that a prior abortion increased the risk of a subsequent premature birth by 35 percent and having more than one abortion increased the risk by 93 percent.
Such premature babies are at a greater risk for low birth weight which is linked to physical and developmental problems such as epilepsy, autism, mental retardation and cerebral palsy. A 2007 study in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine estimated that prior abortions led to 1,096 cases of cerebral palsy in premature babies each year. In 2006, the Institute of Medicine placed prior first trimester abortion on the list of risk factors for premature birth.
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