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Here’s an excerpt from Mary Ann Glendon’s address on behalf of the Vatican Delegation at the UN Conference on Women, Beijing, September 5, 1995: The position of the Holy See that abortion is the purposeful destruction of human life, and that it can never be a means of family planning is well known. At the […]
Springfield, IL (September 7, 2012) — A single induced abortion increases the risk of maternal death by 45 percent compared to women with no history of abortion, according to a new study of all women of reproductive age in Denmark over a 25 year period. In addition, each additional abortion is associated with an even […]
Studies in U.S., Finland, and Denmark show women are more likely to die after an abortion than after childbirth.
Survey of Women Became Pregnant Through Rape Finds Most Don’t Want Abortions; Say It Adds to Trauma As the furor continues over the Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks that pregnancy from rape is very rare, one very important thing is being overlooked: what do women who have actually been there have to say about this […]
Lorena Rivera, a 21-year-old legal receptionist, disappeared while on her way to work in Oklahoma City in April 1997. More than a month later, her body was found buried in a shallow grave. Rivera, 21 weeks pregnant and the mother of a three-year-old son, had been shot twice and beaten to death. Rivera’s friends testified […]
