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Volume 19, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2012 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Pre-Abortion Screening Law to Take Effect Federal Court Recognized Risk Factors in Ruling on South Dakota Law Appeals Court: All Abortion Risks Must Be Disclosed Argument to Invert Traditional Medical Standards Rejected Contact Your Legislators and Lobbyists About Our Model Bill Empower Women, Not […]
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 […]
The following is excerpted from the book Aborted Women, Silent No More: Twenty Women Share Their Personal Journeys from the Tragedy of Abortion to Restored Wholeness by David C. Reardon. Since the mid-1960s, abortion has been a major national issue, the subject of state and Congressional investigations, thousands of articles, and hundreds of books. But […]
New video describes the free legal help available for teens and women who are being forced to abort, and what they can do to protect their rights and stop it from happening. Share this video with others so that girls and women in this situation know that there is help available. Help is available through […]
This year marks 11 years since the RU-486 abortion drug was approved for use in the United States. According to a report released this summer by the Food & Drug Administration, the deaths of at least 12 women and more than 2,200 adverse effects have been reported since the drug was approved. The deaths include […]