Vedno več je znanstvenih študij, ki dokazujejo, da je poleg otroka žrtev splava tudi mama, ki naredi splav.

2,5 krat pogostejši samomor!

V Southern Medical Journal so objvaili znanstveno raziskavo, ki  je dokazala, da so tiste ženske, ki so splavile, imele 62 % večje tveganje za smrt iz različnih vzrokov za obdobje vsaj osmih let po njihovih nosečnostih. Najpogostejše so bile smrti zaradi samomora in nesreč, kjer so bili samomori 2,5-krat pogostejši. (DC Reardon et. al., “Deaths Associated With Pregnancy Outcome: A Record Linkage Study of Low Income Women,” Southern Medical Journal 95(8):834-41, Aug. 2002.)

Prezgodnja smrt matere zaradi splava!

V reviji Obstetrics and Gynecology so raziskovalci zapisali, da so najpogostejši vzroki maternalnih smrti, povezanih s splavom krvavitev, infekcije, embolija, zapleti pri anesteziji in nediagnosticirane zunajmaternične nosečnosti. (Kaunitz, “Causes of Maternal Mortality in the United States, Obstetrics and Gynecology 65(5), May 1985)

Splav povzroča raka na dojki, materničnem vratu in pljučih!

Splav povzroča močno tveganje za raka na dojki, materničnem vratu in pljučih (verjetno zaradi povezave z vzorcem intenzivnejšega kajenja po splavu). (H.L. Howe, et al., "Early Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk Among Women Under Age 40," International Journal of Epidemiology 18(2):300-304, 1989; L.I. Remennick, "Induced Abortion as A Cancer Risk Factor: A Review of Epidemiological Evidence," Journal of Epidemiological Community Health 1990; M.C. Pike, "Oral Contraceptive Use and Early Abortion as Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Young Women," British Journal of Cancer 43:72, 1981; M-G, Le, et al., "Oral Contraceptive Use and Breast or Cervical Cancer: Preliminary Results of a French Case- Control Study, Hormones and Sexual Factors in Human Cancer Etiology ed. JP Wolff, et al., (New York, Excerpta Medica,1984) 139-147; F. Parazzini, et al., "Reproductive Factors and the Risk of Invasive and Intraepithelial Cervical Neoplasia," British Journal of Cancer 59:805-809,1989; H.L. Stewart, et al., "Epidemiology of Cancers of the Uterine Cervix and Corpus, Breast and Ovary in Israel and New York City," Journal of the National Cancer Institute 37(1):1-96; I. Fujimoto, et al., "Epidemiologic Study of Carcinoma in Situ of the Cervix," Journal of Reproductive Medicine 30(7):535, July 1985; N. Weiss, "Events of Reproductive Life and the Incidence of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer," Am. J. of Epidemiology, 117(2):128-139, 1983; V. Beral, et al., "Does Pregnancy Protect Against Ovarian Cancer," The Lancet 1083-7, May 20, 1978; C. LaVecchia, et al., "Reproductive Factors and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Women," International Journal of Cancer 52:351, 1992.)