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News Briefs Unborn Baby Helps Mom Survive A British woman who has suffered from kidney failure for 22 years was kept alive during her pregnancy by her unborn child, whose kidneys worked for both of them, doctors say. Carol Davies, 42, became pregnant last year after trying unsuccessfully for 15 years to have a child. […]
Victims and Victors Book Tells Women’s Stories of Sexual Assault Pregnancy “Having lived through rape, and having raised a child ‘conceived in rape,’ I feel personally assaulted and insulted every time I hear that abortion should be legal for rape and incest. I feel that we’re being used to further the abortion issue, even though […]
Pro-Choice Researchers Recognize PAS Half a Million Women May Suffer From Post-Abortion Syndrome Pro-choice researchers writing in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry have acknowledged that some women experience post-abortion syndrome (PAS). The research team, led by Dr. Brenda Major, diagnosed PAS among 1.4 percent of a sample of women who had […]
By David C. Reardon, Ph.D. With only a few words of understanding and compassion, Bush can grab five to ten percent of the women voters leaning towards Gore. It’s not hard. It just requires a better understanding of what the abortion issue really means to women. Over 25 million American women have had abortions. At […]
Abortion vs. Childbirth New Studies Evaluate Their Effects on Women’s Mental Health Women who undergo abortions are at greater risk for mental health problems in subsequent years, according to a new Elliot Institute study presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS) held this June in Miami Beach, Florida. The study looked […]