Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
9/23/15 From Béatrice Fedor at the 400 Words for Women blog: Once a child is conceived unexpectedly, the feminist response should be to empower women with choices they can live with; choices that don’t put them in a situation of coercion in the hands of controlling sex partners and gruesome procedures with heavy psychological implications; […]
9/22/15 Here’s a response from Destiny at New Wave Feminists to today’s Planned Parenthood-sponsored #ShoutYourAbortion twitter campaign: But if you’ve done all this tweeting and shouting, and still find that you’re struggling with your abortion, please know that I love you. I truly, genuinely care about your happiness and well-being. As a feminist I don’t […]
9/11/15 From Leon H. Wolf at RedState.com: None of the abortion advocates who constantly and perpetually moan about these regulations have ever offered any convincing reason why abortion as a surgical procedure should be treated differently on the merits from any other outpatient surgery such that these regulations are fair as applied to ortho clinics […]
8/25/15 A new study has found that having a single induced abortion or miscarriage can lead to complications in future pregnancies. The study, published in the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, examined deliveries for 15,000 women in Tel Aviv who were giving birth for the first time, of whom 1,500 had a previous […]
8/14/15 Brent Rooney, M.Sc. In 1967, long-time, high-profile abortion advocate Dr. Malcolm Potts wrote: … there seems little doubt that there is a true relationship between the high incidence of therapeutic abortion and prematurity. The interruption of pregnancy in the young (under seventeen) is more dangerous than in other cases … [1] In what medical […]
8/12/15 In a new video released this morning by the Center for Medical Progress, Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician for Planned Parenthood partner StemExpress, claims that women undergoing abortions at Planned Parenthood may have had their blood and fetal tissue harvested for sale without their consent. O’Donnell says in the video that technicians were […]
8/7/15 The RealChoice blog documents the deaths of women as a result of abortion: both legal and illegal. Today the blog remembers three women who died on August 7, all from so-called “safe and legal” abortions: Ruth Montero, age 23, underwent a safe and legal vacuum abortion of her 8-week pregnancy, under general anesthesia, August […]
8/4/15 A 14-year-old girl in India who is 25 weeks pregnant as a result of rape is due to to undergo an abortion, the Straits Times is reporting: The father of the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claims she became pregnant in February after her doctor injected her with sedatives and then […]
7/30/15 Susan W. Enouen, P.E. Note: This week Health Canada approved Mifepristone (also known as the abortion pill or RU-486) for use in Canada. The following article from 2010, reprinted with permission from Life Issues Institute, sheds light on why this decision will lead to further exploitation and harm for Canadian women. RU-486, the abortion […]
7/21/15 Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.D. Note: Last week we reported on a deeply flawed study using the “Turnaway Study” that is being used to claim that most women have no regrets after an abortion. Dr. Priscilla Coleman, of Bowling Green State University and director of WECARE, has also published her own criticism which is reprinted […]
7/16/15 From the CNN story on the undercover video showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing harvesting body parts from aborted babies: Another part of the video also raised concerns for [bioethicist Art Caplan of New York University] . Nucatola talks about doctors performing abortions in which ultrasound is used to ascertain the best location to […]
7/15/2015 “This Study Should End The Debate About Whether Women Regret Having Abortions,” reads the headline from ThinkProgress. The study, published in the journal PLoS One, claims that 95 percent of women having abortions do not have regrets afterward. From the study: Women experienced decreasing emotional intensity over time, and the overwhelming majority of women […]
7/14/15 The Center for Medical Progress has released a video showing a top Planned Parenthood official discussing how the organization is illegally trafficking body parts from aborted babies. Dr. Deborah Nucatola is the Senior Director of Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was filmed at a lunch meeting with two undercover investigators […]
7/10/15 The United Nations is continuing to push population control despite the fact that the world population continues to decline. From the Population Research Institute: On July 11th, the United Nations will celebrate its 26th World Population Day. The point of this annual exercise is to raise money to promote abortion, sterilization and contraception among […]
Guest Column This article originally appeared on the Alliance of Pro-Life Students (U.K.) blog and is reprinted with permission. I’ve learned that the word ‘choice’ is often the last word a woman in a crisis pregnancy feels applies to her when she’s looking for an abortion. As I put down my mobile having spoken to […]
1/19/15 The governor of Texas has just signed a measure intended to help protect pregnant teens from abuse and exploitation. According to LifeNews.com, the new law: … addresses the problematic issue of judge shopping — where abortion clinic attorneys seek out abortion-friendly judges who will rubber stamp teen abortions and rarely allow parents to know […]
By Theresa Bonopartis Every month, I get at least 15 new women and men looking for help regarding a past abortion. It is heart breaking to hear the anguish they are going through, but I know there is hope of healing, and so we connect them with people and places that will be able to […]
By Theresa Bonopartis Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when recently questioned about what limits should be placed on abortion, sidestepped the question, repeating the old familiar mantra, “A women’s right to make her own decisions about her body should be between her and her doctor.” I’m accustomed to the deft use of words by pro-abortion extremists […]
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. This article appeared on in the digital edition of National Right to Life News, “the pro-life newspaper of record.” You can read this story and the issue in its entirety at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsFeb2015.pdf One of Planned Parenthood’s large affiliates has just published a […]
From the archives: A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be “particularly damaging to the parenting process.” The article, published in Current Women’s Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman […]
6/10/2015 From the archives: A study published in the International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction found that the relationship between women and their partners and the level of support provided by the father are important factors in whether or not the woman aborts. The study, headed by Prof. Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State […]
Prof. Richard Stith Why do many pro-choice people find our arguments against early abortion not just unconvincing but absurd? Consider, for example, the ridicule that the defense of human embryos sometimes draws. In order to have any hope of winning the debate, defenders of unborn life must understand how an argument that seems wholly reasonable […]
From the archives: “The term ‘safe abortion’ is the ultimate oxymoron,” stated U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) yesterday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2011 International Budget. Smith made the remarks during testimony by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He cited increased risks of breast cancer, psychological problems and subsequent […]