VANCOUVER, Canada, April 6 /
Christian Newswire/ -- Brent Rooney submits the following and is available for comment:
Open Letter to Mr. Jay Sekulow (J.D.,
ACLJ),
I am a medical researcher and lead author of the May 2003 Rooney/Calhoun study that was crucial to Texas warning women that prior abortions raise a woman's risk of a later preterm & handicapped newborn;
www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf.
There exist zero published animal studies of "suction" abortion. In 2008 Rooney & colleagues revealed in the Journal of American Physicians & Surgeons that there are no animal "suction" abortion studies in medical journals;
www.jpands.org/vol13no4/rooney.pdf. Thus, ALL "suction" abortions violate the Nuremberg Code. Please be aware that the U.S. Defense Department in 1953 became the only government department to accept the entire 1947 Nuremberg Code. 300 women (not animals) in Communist China were the first to be subjected to "suction" abortion:
www.bmj.com/cgi/data/336/7657/1332-a/DC1/1.
Three heavyweight premature birth experts in a January 2008 LANCET article fingered prior abortions as boosting women's later risk of delivering preterm babies. Premature newborns have raised autism, CP, mental retardation etc. risk. No credible medical authority denies that Drs. Robert Romero, Robert Goldenberg, & Jay Iams are elite preterm birth experts. In 2008 citing the 2004 "Ancel-Papiernik" European study & the 2005 "Moreau" French study these 3 medical doctors identified (page 165) prior surgical abortions as elevating preterm birth risk. Also in 2008 Dr. Eveline Himpens & colleagues reported that newborns under 32 weeks gestation have 55 times the CP risk as full-term newborns.
2009: Dr. Hanes Swingle (U. South Alabama) using data from previous published studies reported in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine that women with prior IAs (Induced Abortions) have 64% higher relative odds of a very preterm birth (under 32 weeks gestation) than women with zero prior IAs.
In 2007 Dr. Calhoun, Dr. Shadigian, & Brent Rooney (MSc) (Journal of Reproductive Medicine) estimated that prior abortions caused 1,096 U.S. cases of Cerebral Palsy in newborns under 3 pounds 5 ounces in 2002. That 2007 study has not been challenged via a "letter to the editor" in 17 months.
Brent Rooney (MSc)
Research Director, Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition
3456 Dunbar St. (Suite 146)
Vancouver, Canada V6S 2C2
fullterm40@gmail.com
