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Birmingham abortion clinic (New Woman All Women Health Care) which is owned by the same group as the Jackson abortion clinic have Two botched abortions; no gurney access (click Two botched abortions; no gurney access to see pictures) on January 21, 2012.

Abortion and Premature Birth

Mayo Clinic Doctor Admits Abortions Hurt Women, Cause Premature Births, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, August 20, 2009
A physician who works for the prestigious Mayo Clinic has written a new factsheet that admits abortions harm women. Roger W. Harms, M.D., a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and medical editor-in-chief, also says abortions can cause women problems with subsequent pregnancies. In some cases, "a surgical abortion may weaken the cervix or cause scarring on the inside of the uterus." "If such damage occurs, surgery may be needed to correct the problems before a woman can conceive again or carry a subsequent pregnancy to term," he said.

Researcher: Abortions Up Risk of Premature Birth in Subsequent Pregnancies, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, June 29, 2009
Having an abortion increases the risk of having a premature birth in a subsequent pregnancy -- that is the conclusion of a European researcher at a medical conference. Several previous studies have shown that abortion hurts women and future children by upping the chance of premature delivery. Lead researcher Dr Robbert van Oppenraaij presented his findings at the annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. He says one induced abortion raisers the risk of premature birth in a next pregnancy by 20 percent. Two or more abortions raises the risk by 90 percent and doubles the risk of a very premature birth, at 34 weeks or less.

Black Women Have Higher Premature Birth Rates From Having More Abortions, by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor, December 2, 2008
A new research paper finds African-American women are at risk for higher rates of premature and extremely premature birth because they tend to have abortions at higher rates than women of other ethnicity. Canadian researcher Brent Rooney and colleagues published the results in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. They say abortion is the "probable cause" of the high pre-term birth rate among black women because a prior induced abortion increases the risk of premature birth. According to the new research paper, black women are three times more likely to have an early pre-term birth before 32 weeks gestation and four times more likely to have an extremely pre-term birth before 28 weeks gestation in comparison with women of other ethnic groups.

Friday January 29, 2010
Calif. Quietly Shifts Fruitless Embryo Research Funds to Adult Stem Cells Investors knock waste on useless research

By Kathleen Gilbert
LOS ANGELES, California, January 29, 2010 LifeSiteNews.com) - California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine came into being five years ago, fueled by a conviction that the Bush administration's restriction on embryo-destructive research in the National Institutes of Health was stifling the progress of science. 

But after years of fruitless work, the Institute has now quietly diverted funds from embryonic stem cell research (ESCr) to adult stem cell research - which has already produced dozens of treatments and all-out cures for maladies ranging from spinal cord injury, to Alzheimer's, to type I diabetes.

The California government - which is again teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - in 2004 passed the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, or Proposition 71.  The initiative pumped $3 billion into research seeking some medical use for stem cells harvested from human embryos, which are killed in the process. 

But an editorial in the Los Angeles-based Investor's Business Daily magazine January 12 pointed out the abysmal failure of the state's massive investment in research that has procured no effective treatments to date. 

"Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no therapies and little progress," notes the IBD editors. 

"ESCR has failed to deliver and backers of Prop 71 are admitting failure."
The editors also called out the Institute for dissembling on the real source of progress among stem cell research.  "Over the years ... when funding was needed, the phrase 'embryonic stem cells' was used. When actual progress was discussed, the word 'embryonic' was dropped because ESCR never got out of the lab," they write.
"This is a classic bait-and-switch, an attempt to snatch success from the jaws of failure and take credit for discoveries and advances achieved by research Prop. 71 supporters once cavalierly dismissed."

Although scientists and pro-life advocates have denounced the dead-end science of embryo research for years, the political and ethical furor surrounding embryonic research appears to have obscured the undeniable superiority of adult stem cells' track record.  Not only have adult cells already produced dozens of treatments, but embryonic stem cells have been found prone to multiply out of control, causing tumors, and are less easily cultivated into specific types of tissue than their adult counterparts. 

Meanwhile, due to advances in induced pluripotent stem cells, adult cells are now capable of transforming into various types of cells – an ability once thought to be held only by embryonic cells.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, the director of the National Institutes of Health under the Bush administration, wrote in a March 2009 U.S. News & World Report column that "embryonic stem cells, once thought to hold the cure for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes, are obsolete."  The same month, however, President Obama reversed the Bush administration ban on taxpayer funding of embryo research, saying that "our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values." 
The IBD editors concluded that "it is ESCR researchers who have politicized science and stood in the way of real progress.

"We are pleased to see California researchers beginning to put science in its rightful place."