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The Impact on Parents and Families “In advanced industrial countries, prenatal testing in order to detect fetal abnormalities has become routine,” as researchers Elizabeth Ring Cassidy and Ian Gentles of The deVeber Institute note below. In many cases, it is assumed — even expected — that diagnosis of a disability or genetic disorder will lead […]
The Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA), a project of the Justice Foundation, provides legal help to pregnant mothers and helps them exercise their right to continue the pregnancy. CAFA provides legal assistance and training for pregnancy centers and other ministries, and documents to help enforce the rights of the mother to have her child. Allan […]
A survey of 1,000 respondents in New Zealand found that 64 percent of respondents supported a proposal to require a doctor other than an abortion provider to give women information about medical risks and alternatives before an abortion takes place. Slightly more women than men (64 percent to 62 percent) supported the proposal. 62 percent […]
The Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse blog has a good article on the new prenatal test for Down Snydrome and the link to abortion, noting the relationship to coerced abortion. From the article, The New Prenatal Testing Sham, by Mark W. Leach: Since 2007, the professional recommendation has been for all expectant mothers to be offered […]
We have just created our first YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/abortionrisks, where we will be uploading a number of videos over the next several months. The first, available now, is a 30 second television commercial that has aired as both paid and public service advertising which examines the problem of unwanted abortions. Please “like” the video and […]
While present research is unable to accurately establish what percentage of women suffer from any specific symptom of post-abortion trauma, it is clear that post-abortion psychological disorders do occur. Indeed, the published literature demonstrates that serious emotional and psychological complications following an abortion are probably more common than serious physical complications. The present literature has […]
Great news from the Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA): Recently, the Alliance Defense Fund contacted us on behalf of a young girl in Kansas who was trying to help a girl being forced by her parents to have an abortion. We immediately contacted the girl who turned out to be the sister of the baby’s […]
The Abortion Recovery InterNational Network (ARIN) cordially invites you to celebrate and participate in Abortion Recovery Awareness Month in April 2011. The goals of Abortion Recovery Awareness Month are to encourage and extend healing opportunities to those hurting after abortion, and to enlighten society about the effects of abortion on individuals and families. During the […]
Brent Rooney, M.Sc. In 1999, Professor Larry Burd and colleagues reported that women with prior induced abortions had a three times higher risk of delivering a newborn later diagnosed with autism.1 In the 1960s, the U.S. autism rate for newborns was approximately 1 in 10,000, but the rate skyrocketed to 1 in 110 in 2009 […]
With the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gossnell and his associates for running an abortion “house of horrors” in Philadelphia, and legislative proposals to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding at the state and federal levels, abortion advocates are falling back on the claim that any effort to regulate the abortion industry will lead to the […]