Pro-life group suggests that the World Health Organization adopt measures that ‘protect women from abortion’ and work to ‘improve women’s health care.’

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Abortion’s Global Health Threat to Women 

by ADELAIDE MENA AND HILLARY SENOUR

A new study released during the 66th annual World Health Assembly identified and exposed what it claimed to be the harmful and often overlooked impact that abortion has on women’s health.

Decades-long research analysis issued by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach and National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund makes the case that rather than being a routine medical procedure, abortion is detrimental to the health of women globally.

“The evidence is overwhelming: abortion is dangerous for women,” executive director Scott Fischbach of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach said in a May 22 statement.

The analysis “How Abortion Hurts Women” released during the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, examined the harmful side effects of abortion that are often overlooked or even “exacerbated” when performed in developing nations.

“Abortion is by its very nature a violent and damaging procedure,” Fischbach said.

The study shows that women who have undergone abortions — both surgical and non-surgical — in are at greater risk of breast cancer, pre-term birth, infertility and psychological problems than those who have not had abortions.

These risks are increased in areas where the quality of maternal healthcare is lacking, the report shows.
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