Conscience Leads to More Complete Support for Women in New Zealand

By Cushla Hassan, RN & Joseph Hassan, MBchB A year ago, Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand published Rose Stewart’s challenging ar­ticle, “Conscience ‘not always a force for good’,” giving her perspective on conscience and health care.1 In the article, Stewart expressed her concern that health professionals who invoke their conscientious objection to abortion or contra­ception […]

Legal or Illegal, Women Still Die from Abortion

Real Choice reports today on the death from abortion of 37-year-old Carole Schaner on October 20, 1971, by Dr. Jesse Ketchum: Ketchum was a former criminal abortionist from Ypsilanti, Michigan who had relocated to New York specifically to open an abortion practice [after New York legalized abortion]. He had allowed another abortion patient, Margaret Smith, to bleed […]

Sex-Selection Abortions A Worldwide Problem

The recent 34th anniversary of China’s “one-child policy” has focused renewed attention on sex-selection abortions. According to Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, “there are an estimated 37 million more men than women in China today. This gender imbalance is a major force driving sexual slavery of women and girls in Asia.” In certain […]

Down Syndrome Awareness Month: Information, Resources and Hope

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Sadly, most unborn children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted — often after parents are given poor information and pressured or coerced to abort by medical staff.  Most people also don’t know about the negative impact that such abortions can also have on parents and families. As one mother […]

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