Pro-Life Action League

BREAKING: Brand new research on abortion and miscarriage’s impact on women's health. A brand-new peer-reviewed study reveals that pregnancy loss, whether through miscarriage or induced abortion, is a risk factor for severe maternal morbidity during a woman's first birth after the loss. Researchers reviewed Medicaid data on women with no prior pregnancies and women with exactly one prior pregnancy loss, whether a spontaneous or induced abortion. The data set spanned 1999 to 2021 and included 17 states that paid for most induced abortion claims. The study found that prior pregnancy loss is associated with a "modest but consistent elevation in severe maternal morbidity during a subsequent delivery." Learn more about the study and its implications and follow AAPLOG and the Charlotte Lozier Institute to see how medical and scientific research overwhelmingly supports life-affirming healthcare.