The Mayo Clinic on Abortion he Mayo Clinic was founded on I Catholic values when Mother Alfred Moes of the nuns of the Sisters of St. Francis joined with the Mayo brothers in building the first general hospital in southeastern Minnesota, based in the city of Rochester, in 1889. Today, this great teaching institution is telling its patients that abortion does not cause infertility due to endometriosis, in spite of medical research proving the contrary. The false information is the answer to a patient-submitted question on the Q&A section of the Mayo Clinic website.
The question appearing on the Mayo Clinic website asks, “Is there any documented connection between abortion and endometriosis’?” The writer of the answer on the Mayo Clinic website responds, “There is no evidence of a link between abortion and endometriosis, a cause of female infertility,” and goes on to say, “Endometriosis is primarily a disease of women who have never been pregnant.”
The website does admit, “It is possible — but very unusual — for an abortion to cause scarring on the inside of the uterus. This scar tissue could prevent conception or interfere with subsequent pregnancies.”
According to the Canadian Deveber Institute, “No previous births and an earlier abortion put a woman at significant risk of post-abortion complications leading to possible infertility.”
“Post-Abortal Endometritis and Isolation of Chlamydia Trachomatis,” published in the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, reported as early as 1986 that it is possible to develop endometriosis from an abortion and that the risk is higher for teenagers.
Multiple studies have shown the connection between infertility and abortion due to infections, including studies by J.L. Sorenson, reported in Infection magazine, and a study reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, both published in 1993.
Abortion also increases the risk of miscarriage, according to a 1986 study reported in the medical journal Epidemiology.
See the Source: Steven Ertelt, “Mayo Clinic under Fire for Playing Down Abortion-Infertility Link,” LifeNews.com, 8 September 2005, http://www.lifenews.com/nat1598.html
Depo-Provera Has Legal Problems
A $700-million suit has been filed against Pfizer, the producers of Depo-Provera. Depo-Provera is an injective abortifacient prescribed to over 600,000 Canadians last year alone. The lawsuit claims that the women who were injected with Depo-Provera have developed osteoporosis, a condition causing bones to become fragile. The lawsuit is one of three that has been filed in Canada.
Women are injected with Depo-Provera every three months; Pfizer claims there is less than a 1% chance of getting pregnant while on the medication.
Depo-Provera was approved for use in Canada in 1997. Over the past four years, over 2 million prescriptions for the drug have been written in Canada.
About one year ago, Pfizer warned that the drug could lead to bone density loss. As a result, the U.S. issued a warning saying the drug should not be used as a long-term contraceptive; Health Canada issued a similar statement.
“The data indicate that women who use Depo-Provera may lose significant (bone mineral density),” states one Health Canada warning. Says lawyer Glyn Hotz, who has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of Canadian woman, “We’ve seen [very young] people who have had multiple fractures, required knee replacements.”
Pfizer Canada responded to the claims in a press release, saying it plans to “vigorously defend” the lawsuit.
See the Source: “Class action suit filed over birth control drug,” CTV.caNews, 19 December 2005, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051219/depo_provera_051219/20051219?hub=TopStories
Vietnam’s Birthrate
Vietnam’s abortion rate is among the highest in the world, with 82% of married women of childbearing age having undergone an abortion at least once, says the Vietnamese General Statistics Department.
Vietnam’s population growth rate fell from 1.4% in 2004 to 1.33% in 2005, and is expected to continue to fall.
The average number of children a woman of childbearing age gives birth to is lower in Vietnam than in Southeast Asia generally — only 2.1 children in that Communist country.
See the Source: “Vietnam’s abortion rate highest worldwide,” VietNamNet Bridge, 21 December 2005, http:English.vietnamnet.vn/social/2005/12/524770/
