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The American Medical Association supported the federal ban on partial birth abortion, explaining that the brutal procedure is "not medically indicated," and is "not good medicine."
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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION POSES SERIOUS HEALTH RISKS FOR THE MOTHER
The Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 includes findings by Congress of serious health risks for the mother undergoing a partial-birth abortion.* Some of the serious health risks are as follows:
1. “[There is] an increase in a woman’s risk of suffering from cervical incompetence, a result of cervical dilation making it difficult or impossible for a woman to successfully carry a subsequent pregnancy to term;”
2. “[There is] an increased risk of uterine rupture, abruption, amniotic fluid embolus, and trauma to the uterus as a result of converting the child to a footling breech position, a procedure which, according to a leading obstetrics textbook, ‘there are very few, if any, indications for…other than for delivery of a second twin’; and
3. [There is] a risk of lacerations and secondary hemorrhaging due to the doctor blindly forcing a sharp instrument into the base of the unborn child’s skull while he or she is lodged in the birth canal, an act which could result in severe bleeding, brings with it threat of shock, and could ultimately result in maternal death.”
*Some sources:
-November 17, 1995 TESTIMONY OF DR. PAMELA SMITH DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, MT. SINAI HOSPITAL, Before The Senate Judiciary On The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.
-March 11, 1997 TESTIMONY OF DR. CURTIS COOK BOARD-CERTIFIED OBSTETRICIAN/GYNECOLOGIST, Before The Senate Judiciary On The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.
-March 25, 2003 TESTIMONY OF DR. MARK G. NEERHOF, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF OBSTECTRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL, Before the House Judiciary On the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.
View the Congressional Findings that discuss women's health risks.
Learn about abortion health risks in general: See our "Abortion Hurts Women" Fact Sheet.
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