Bleeding is another problem.   About one in ten women bleed so much that they may need a blood transfusion.  Despite the best efforts of blood banks there is still a chance of getting HIV or Hepatitis B from a blood transfusion.  There have been cases, too, when young women were sent home and literally bled to death in their sleep.

Some abortion procedures like prostaglandin and saline that cause contractions that force a premature delivery of the baby can involve such forceful contractions that the uterus ruptures.


Pro-choicers still like to say that prostaglandin abortions are safe but what they don't tell you about are the convulsions, heart or lung failure, vomiting, stroke, or even possible kidney failure.

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After 25 years and more than 38,000,000 legal abortions there is growing evidence that abortion leaves emotional scars as well as physical scars.  Even many women who think they have no problem actually have deep feelings of intense pain and great sorrow.

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Some feel that they can't live with what they've done.  They may have tried to hide their feelings for years but the pain often just grows greater and deeper.  When something happens to bring the feelings up they say the same thing,"Oh my God!  I'm so evil to have done this".

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With abortions done early in the development of the baby, in some cases the abortionist accidentally pushes the suction tube right through the wall of the uterus.  This creates several problems, especially if the colon is also perforated.  This could cause a life-threatening infection or in some cases make it impossible to ever go to the bathroom normally again.

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Others suffer a stress disorder (Post Abortion Syndrome) very much like that suffered by some soldiers who come back from war.  First they try to deny any negative feelings, but 5, 10, 15 years down the line something breaks through the barrier of denial.  The feelings that come welling up can make the woman an emotional wreck.  She may not be able to keep a relationship.  Trying to end the pain she may get hooked on drugs or alcohol.

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Later on when the woman gets pregnant again there can be problems caused by an earlier abortion.  Sometimes the Fallopian tubes (between the ovaries and uterus) are so scarred from the abortion that the developing baby is too big to pass through and embeds in the lining of the tubes.  The baby tries to grow inside the Fallopian tube (an Ectopic pregnancy) but because the tube won't stretch enough it eventually ruptures - killing the baby and sometimes the mother.

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Some estimates say there is up to a 15% greater chance that the baby's placenta will cover the opening to the womb after one abortion.  Usually this means that the attending doctor will have to operate and surgically remove the baby.  This may be riskier for both the mother and her child than a normal delivery.

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