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News Briefs 1 in 6 Americans Involved in Abortion, Study Says A University of Chicago study shows that one in six Americans have been involved in a pregnancy that ended in abortion. The study also found that women are more likely to abort their first pregnancy or a later pregnancy than are women in their […]
The Impact of Abortion After Prenatal Testing Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian Gentles In advanced industrial countries, prenatal testing in order to detect fetal abnormalities has become routine. The amount of genetic information that has become available has expanded enormously in the past few years. While there are a number of ways of carrying out these […]
“The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done” Women’s Stories of Dealing With Fetal Abnormality Emma Loach was about 20 weeks pregnant when she and her partner learned their unborn child had Down Syndrome. They were immediately sent to a hospital to meet with a consultant. “He then told us what the prognosis would mean for […]
Women Are Concerned About Violence, Not Abortion — But Abortion Advocates Are Not Addressing the Violence of Unwanted Abortions Are abortion advocates really concerned about women? Or are they fixated on an outdated and harmful agenda that is opposed by most American women? The answers to these questions are suggested in a new poll conducted […]
Effort to Reverse Roe Will Press Ahead The campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade will press ahead, as Norma McCorvey–the former “Jane Roe” of the U.S. Supreme Court case legalizing abortion–appeals a judge’s dismissal of a motion asking the Supreme Court to revisit her case. On June 17, McCorvey filed a “motion for relief from […]