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FDA Failed to Protect Women From Unwanted and Dangerous Abortions: Elliot Institute Amicus Brief

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2/29/2024 The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone, negligently exposed millions of women to unwanted, unsafe, and unnecessary abortions, according to an amicus brief filed by the Elliot Institute, Rachel’s Vineyard, and Entering Canaan Ministry. The brief details the Clinton administration’s political goals and social engineering agenda when the president ordered for the FDA to bring the […]

Psychiatric Treatments Rise After Abortion, New Study

Posted in Abortion & Mental Health Controversy, Abortion risks, Mental Health Effects, News, Research

Washington, DC (11/10/2023)—Women exposed to abortion of a first pregnancy face elevated rates of subsequent psychiatric admissions, and longer hospitalization, than women who carry a first pregnancy to term, according to a new peer reviewed study published in the International Journal of Women’s Health. Figure 1: Average rate of psychiatric inpatient admissions per patient per year, prior […]

Most Abortion Choices Violate Women’s Own Preferences, New Study Examines Harms When Abortion is Not Freely Chosen

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Washington, DC (May 11, 2023) — The assumption that abortions only occur when women freely want them has been overturned by a new study interviewing a national sample of 1000 women 41 to 45 years of age. Of women with a history of abortion, only 33% described their abortions as a “wanted and consistent with my values and preferences.” […]

Unwanted Abortion Are Common and Strongly Linked to Subsequent Mental Health Decline, New Study

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Gulf Breeze, FL (Feb. 1, 2023) — Women who feel pressured to have abortions blame their abortions for a decline in their mental health, according to a new peer reviewed study. They were also more likely to say their abortions led to frequent feelings of grief, loss, and disruption of their lives and relationships. “Over 60% of women who […]

Abortion Linked to More Deaths than Coffee

Posted in Commentary, Comments in the News, Mortality, News, Research

Recent mainstream media headlines trumpeted the findings of a single new study revealing that adults who drank moderate amounts of coffee were 30% less likely to die during the period studied than those who didn’t drink coffee. But where are the headlines about the 11 studies showing that abortion is linked to a 50% increased risk of a woman’s […]

Is Abortion Ever Necessary to Save a Woman’s Life?

Posted in Abortion risks, Commentary, Reproductive Complications, Research

While it is common to talk about laws that allow abortion in cases where it is necessary to save a woman’s life, in fact there is little or no medical evidence that it is ever clearly necessary. In 2012, in response to efforts to legalize abortions in their country, Irish doctors launched the Dublin Declaration, which […]

The Unwanted Abortion Crisis

Posted in Commentary, Politics

New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed a package of bills designed to make New York an abortion safe haven and protect “a woman’s right to determine and make her own decisions about her own body.” But how often is it really a woman’s own decision? The best evidence indicates that 64% of women who admit having a past […]

The Weak Spots in the Texas Abortion Ban Can be Easily Fixed

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Pro-lifers are excited by the Supreme Court’s decision to refuse an injunction against enforcement of Texas’s new ban on abortions after six weeks of gestation. But notably, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority also noted that the novel nature of the statute raised new constitutional questions. In short, the controversy created by Texas Heartbeat Act is not settled. […]

Replacement Pregnancies Are Common After Abortion. New Study Shows 1 in 3 Pregnant Again Within Two Years.

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(July 16, 2021) — Rapid repeat pregnancies are common after abortion of a first pregnancy, according to a new study of over two million young women. This finding is consistent with data showing that 29% of women undergoing an abortion have a strong desire for a “replacement pregnancy.” But since the same pressures to abort […]

Only a Minority of Abortions Are for Unwanted Pregnancies, New Study

Posted in Coerced Abortions, Commentary, Mental Health Effects, Research

by David C. Reardon April 15, 2021. A major abortion advocacy group has recently found that only 42% of aborting women described their pregnancies as unwanted.1 Unexpectedly, 38% described their pregnancies as wanted or wanted but mistimed. The remaining 19% were unsure how to describe the wantedness of their pregnancies, indicating ambivalence or at least some attachment to […]

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