Abortion: Negative Effects On The Mother

Abortion can have abounding negative effects on the mother, one of the many being permanent infertility. Most of the time, this only happens if the mother has abundant abortions, but considering there are 40- 50 million abortions per year, the results of infertility is increasing.

One of the ways abortions cause infertility is damage to the cervix. This is most likely to happen during a medical abortion, which consists of cutting the fetus out of the womb. Cervical damage during an abortion increases the risk of abortion by 300-500 percent, which averages to about 2.3 miscarriages for every one live birth. Normally, the cervix stays tightly closed and secure. During this procedure, the cervix is forced to stretch and be dilated. While the

cervix is being stretched unwillingly, microscopic tears of the cervix muscles almost always occurs, along with occasional severe ripping of the uterus wall. According to a hospital study, this effect of abortion is not at all rare. 22 percent of first trimester abortions result in cervical lacerations. Women under the age of 17 are at a much higher risk of permanent cervical damage.
A new study has found that women that have had abortions are at a much higher risk for metabolic syndrome than women who has never had an abortion. The study is still trying to find a correlation between women that has had abortion and women who hasn’t. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Strokes cause the risk of infertility to increase a lot and can be mentally and physically life changing.
Abortion can also lead to severe infection in the mother which can lead to miscarriage or very serious abnormalities in the baby. Although infections following abortions are very rare, they still happen and when they do they are life changing and life threatening. Most of the infections are caused by fetal tissue left in the womb and it rots. The most coming infection to happen after an abortion is called endometrius, which infects the uterine lining, genital tract, urinary system, and most and for most, then reproductive organs. Another infection following an abortion is caused by the bacteria, clostridium sordelli. Doctors started investigating this bacterium after a women died from it following her recent abortion.
Having an abortion also increases the risk of an ectopic pregnancy, which is when; the fertilized egg implants itself somewhere else in the body instead of the uterus, resulting in a miscarriage. Although an ectopic pregnancy is very rare, having an abortion increases the risk about 30 percent after one abortion and a 160 percent increased risk after two or more abortions. The amount of ectopic pregnancies increased dramatically after abortion was legalized in 1970. Before abortion was legalized, a statistic showed that for every 1,000 live births, only 4.8 of those were ectopic pregnancies. After 1970, the statistic showed that for every 1,000 live births, 14.5 of them were ectopic pregnancies.
Conclusively, abortion can cause permanent infertility in women in various ways. Although many say that these effects are rare, recent studies contradict that theory. After abortion was legalized, the amount of miscarriages and infertility rates has increased dramatically. I, myself, do not support abortion and I think that it should be illegal. Most of the effects on the mothers after an abortion occurs is, in many ways, life changing and some may even be life threatening.