According to John C. Willke, M.D., any and all types of induced abortion can cause from mild to severe injury to the mother. The following lists entail the medical complications that can occur from induced abortions.
For more complete explanations and documentation of the following listings, please contact PPCFL about the book: Why Can’t We Love Them Both by Dr. & Mrs. J. C. Willke.
If you’d like a brochure from medical doctors, which condenses this information, please contact PPCFL for: “You’re Considering an Abortion. What Can Happen to You”.
Potential Immediate Complications:
- acute asthma, drug induced
- anemia
- anaesthetic catastrophy
- avulsion of ureter and resultant removal of kidney
- bladder injury
- blood poisoning
- blood transfusion reactions
- bowel perforation
- cardiac arrest
- cardiac arrythmia
- cerebral embolism (blood clot to the brain)
- cervical laceration
- convulsions
- death
- dissimated intravascular coagulation
- dizziness
- drug reactions
- emergency hysterectomy
- emergency hysterotomy
- endometritis
- endotoxic shock
- fever
- hemorrhage
- hemorrhagic diathesis
- hyernatemia (salt poisoning)
- infection
- parametritis
- pelvic cellulites
- peritonitis
- pneumonia
- post surgical wound disruption
- post transfusion hepatitis
- pulmonary embolism(blood clot to lungs)
- pulmonary infarction
- salpingitis
- severe uterine contractions (Prostin)
- shock
- tachycardia
- tachyarrythmia (rapid heart irregularity)
- thrombophlebitis
- uncontrolled vomiting
- uterine perforation
- vaginitis and vulvitis
Potential Long Term Complications:
- bowel adhesions and bowel obstruction from peritonitis
- cervical incompetence from cervical laceration
- chronic salpingitis
- endometriosis of abdominal wall
- endometriosis of female organs
- increased miscarriages
- increased neo-natal deaths
- increased premature births
- increased risk of breast cancer
- increased sterility
- intrauterine synechia (adhesions)
- menstrual disorders
- neurotic and psychotic difficulties
- pain syndrome (head, abdomen, etc.)
Potential Effect on Future Pregnancies:
- 10-fold increase in mid-pregnancy miscarriages
- doubling of number of newborn babies who die
- increase in brain-damaged babies from prematurity
- miscarriages increased in early pregnancy
- premature births increased
- placenta acreta (inability of afterbirth to separate completely)
- prolonged labor
- Rh problem in the baby due to transplacental hemorrhage during abortion
- rupture of uterus from hysterotomy scar
- sharp increase in ectopic (tubal) pregnancies
- sterility due to endometrial damage
- sterility due to fallopian tube blockage from scarring
- sterility due to intrauterine adhesions
- sterility due to tube blockage from infection
