1.   Penalties for induced abortions are fierce in theory but ineffective in practice.

2.   Thus the data relate to spontaneous miscarriages as well as to induced abortions.

3.   Despite several retrospective studies suggesting no association, some obstetricians still argue against performing induced abortions on the grounds of adverse outcome on future fertility.

4.   Frank et al prospectively examined women who had an unplanned pregnancy at recruitment which ended in either an induced abortion or naturally.

5.   Future fertility was not related to induced abortion.

6.   The Catholic Church is one religion which condemns all induced abortion, whatever the circumstances, and those women who become pregnant have no option.

7.   An induced abortion halts these new cells at an immature stage, she said.

8.   Daling noted that other studies have shown that one in four women of reproductive age have had an induced abortion.

9.   In such institutions, the moral theology and practice that guide their mission strictly prohibit induced abortion as an absolute evil.