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7/14/15 The Center for Medical Progress has released a video showing a top Planned Parenthood official discussing how the organization is illegally trafficking body parts from aborted babies. Dr. Deborah Nucatola is the Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was filmed at a lunch meeting with two undercover investigators […]
7/10/15 The United Nations is continuing to push population control despite the fact that the world population continues to decline. From the Population Research Institute: On July 11th, the United Nations will celebrate its 26th World Population Day. The point of this annual exercise is to raise money to promote abortion, sterilization and contraception among […]
From OneNewsNow: A pro-abortion doctor has written a book where he ignores evidence of the harm of abortion. His position conflicts with existing research. Dr. David A. Grimes, who has spent years promoting abortion, argues in a new book that abortion victims do not have psychological complications after terminating the lives of their babies. David […]
Today, Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers testified before the Congressional Executive Commission on China about the one-child policy. The policy requires Chinese couples to have a birth permit before having a child, with most being allowed only one child. The enforcement of this policy includes birth quotas, invasive medical examinations for women, and […]
Congressional Democrats are blocking a bill to help victims of sex trafficking because it contains a provision that prohibits funding abortions. Abortion advocates say abortion is necessary to help women and girls who are being trafficked. But a look below the surface shows that abortion is likely to harm, not help, victims of trafficking – […]
10/9/2014 A new U.S. study of women who survived sex trafficking found that forced abortion was common among victims who became pregnant, calling it an “especially disturbing trend.” Laura Lederer, one the authors of the study, testified about the findings at a congressional hearing on on sex trafficking and health care on Sept. 11. The […]
9/9/14 From LifeSite News: Almost 900 medical professionals have now signed the Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health, launched in 2012 to declare that abortion is not needed to save women’s lives. Unveiled at the International Symposium on Maternal Healthcare in Dublin, Ireland, the Declaration states: “As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we […]
A report on maternal deaths in Queensland, Australia, has raised concerns about suicide following pregnancy, particularly after abortion. The Queensland Maternal and Perinatal Quality Council report noted: Suicide is the leading cause of death in women within 42 days after their pregnancy and between 43 days and 365 days after their pregnancy. There appears to […]
This past week, three abortion businesses in Louisiana filed suit over a law that would require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their facility. Backers of the new law, which is set to go into effect Sept. 1, say that lack of admitting privileges puts women’s […]
7/24/2014 Another scientific review of the research on abortion and breast cancer has been published. From the news release by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer: A scientific review conducted by Angela Lanfranchi, MD and Patrick Fagan, Ph.D. found that support for an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link exists in current knowledge of breast physiology (as it […]
The Denver Catholic Register has an article on abortion pill reversal, including the story of a woman who is pregnant after taking a chemical abortion pill early in her pregnancy: Kim, 32, was frantic when she left the Planned Parenthood clinic in Fort Collins Saturday afternoon. As soon as she took the first dose of […]
Operation Rescue has posted an article and court documents related to a lawsuit filed against Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen. From the post: Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen, sometimes referred to as the “Gosnell of Texas,” has been sued by a former abortion patient who alleges that he inflicted life-threatening injuries on her during a 23-week abortion […]
The Turtle Bay and Beyond blog is reporting on Planned Parenthood’s plan to distribute the dangerous Depo-Provera contraceptive drug to women in Zambia: Despite scientific research finding women using the contraceptive Depo Provera are at higher risk to transmit HIV/AIDS and develop breast cancer, Planned Parenthood plans to widely distribute the injectable to women in […]
12/3/2013 The following statement was released by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer on Dec. 2, 2013. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 Chinese studies, published by Dr. Yubei Huang and his colleagues in the prestigious journal Cancer Causes Control, last week reported a significant 44 percent increased breast cancer risk among women with at […]
8/14/2013 The following statement was released by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer on August 14, 2013. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer reported today on a Bangladesh study published in the Journal of Dhaka Medical College on risk factors for breast cancer, led by Dr. Suraiya Jabeen. The authors found a statistically significant 20.62-fold increased risk […]
8/8/2013 A new review of abortion and mental health complications has been published in Italy: A new metastudy performed by researchers at the University of Siena seems to show a clear link between abortion and subsequent mental illnesses like depression, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), leading the study’s authors to call for additional […]
Researchers Banned From Giving Presentations at International Women’s Conference Months ago, researchers from the American Association of Pro-life Ob/Gyns were invited to give presentations on abortion’s impact on women at the Medical Women’s International Association, held this year in South Korea. But when they arrived in Seoul last week, they found themselves in an extremely […]
This week experts testified before a Congressional subcommittee on a bill that would ban abortions nationwide past 20 weeks. A 2010 study of women who had abortions found that women undergoing later abortions face increased psychological risks, are more likely to be ambivalent about having an abortion and are more likely to need counseling and […]
Tells Legislators That Performing Abortions “Would Entail Undue and Dangerous Delay” in Providing Life-Saving Care for Women From the testimony of Dr. Anthony Levatino, an ob-gyn who formerly performed abortions and has treated women with high-risk pregnancies, before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice on a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks: Before […]
At National Review, Jillian Kay Melchior reports on three Florida abortion businesses with a long history of serious problems similar to those seen in the Kermit Gosnell case: Sycloria Williams was recovering from a botched abortion at her Pompano, Fla., home on July 21, 2006, when two homicide detectives knocked on her door. They asked […]
(Springfield, IL – May 7, 2013) — A meta-analysis combining the results of eight studies of women facing unwanted pregnancies, published in the April 2013 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, has concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health risks of unwanted or […]
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has approved the sale of the Plan B “morning after pill” (also known as “emergency contraception” or EC) for sale to teens as young as 15 without a prescription. The announcement is troubling on many levels. Jacqueline Harvey of Reproductive Research Audit documents the risks to […]
4/24/2013 Group Challenges Danish Researchers to Study the Whole Group, Use Record-Linkage Database The following statement was released by The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer on April 24, 2013. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer commented on a Danish study led by Christina Braüner entitled, “Induced abortion and breast cancer among parous women: A Danish cohort study.”[1] […]