(HealthScoutNews) -- Women who have an abortion are nearly twice as likely to die within two years compared to women who deliver their babies, with the causes ranging from accidents to suicide.
That higher mortality rate lasts for nearly a decade after an abortion.
That's the conclusion of a new study by a non-profit organization that is critical of abortion because the group says it is detrimental to women's health. The study appears in the most recent issue of the Southern Medical Journal.
In an analysis of 173,000 low-income California women, deaths from suicides, accidents and natural causes were all significantly higher among those who'd had an abortion, compared to women who delivered their babies.
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