Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
News Briefs Study: Couples Who Pay for IVF Get More Embryos A New England Journal of Medicine study shows that couples whose health insurance covers in vitro fertilization are less likely to become pregnant than those who pay for it themselves. Couples in the study who paid for IVF themselves had more embryos implanted at […]
Pull the Abortion Pill! Pro-Life Groups Petition FDA to Shelve RU-486 Pending “Full and Objective” Review Calling on the government to protect the health of American women, groups representing women and medical professionals have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to suspend distribution of the abortion pill RU-486–also known as Mifeprex–pending a full review of […]
Elliot Institute Research Has Major Implications For Women’s Health, Abortion Politics A study published in the August edition of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of death than women who give birth. Researchers examined death records linked to Medi-Cal payments for births and abortions for approximately […]
Propaganda Distorts Abortion Debate By Rep. John Hostettler Maybe the writers for the NBC drama “Law and Order” just ran out of plot ideas. Instead of a fresh new storyline, their Jan. 6 episode recycled a tired and reliable media theme: a “pro-lifer” stalking and killing an abortion practitioner. The abortionist, predictably, was portrayed as […]
Learning to Accept Healing Case Study: I was 14 years old, the middle child of nine, and lost in the confusion and shuffle of parents trying to raise four teenagers older than me during the 1970’s. I was accepted to a prestigious private high school, two city bus rides away from home. Going from the […]