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Aug. 13, 2020 In 2016, Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold a Texas law requiring abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges. But in 2020, he voted to reject an identical statute in Louisiana. Why? Because his 2016 opinion was overruled by the majority of the Supreme Court. Even though he still believes the majority erred […]
Teens face a higher risk of suffering abortion related complications. This is true of both physical and emotional risks, including immediate, short-term and long-term complications. Below is a listing of the findings of relevant medical studies for adolescents: Teens are 6 times more likely to attempt suicide if they have had an abortion in the last […]
6/18/2019 An advice columnist writing in Teen Vogue magazine is advising a teen on how to use judicial bypass to get an abortion without telling her parents. The column from Nona Willis Aronowitz offers advice to a reader who says she is 16 and pregnant and “doesn’t want to be,” but is not sure if […]
1/22/2019 Abortion does nothing to change a woman’s life situation. All it does is end the life of her unborn child. So why do we act as if abortion is the cure-all solution we’ve been looking for since the beginning of time? Abortion does not end poverty, so why do we offer it as a […]
Experts on both sides of the abortion debate agree that abortion contributes to mental health problems in some women. But they disagree whether or not abortion is ever the sole cause of mental illness.
6/25/2018 Nearly 50 consumer complaints have been filed against nine Indiana abortionists for performing abortions on sexual abuse victims as young as 12 and failing to report those cases to authorities: Nine abortion practitioners in the state of Indiana have been caught failing to report child sex abuse in cases where they did abortions on […]
2017 was a busy year for us here at the Elliot Institute! Here are our most popular newsletter posts of the year: Video: Abortion Increases Women’s Risk of Premature Death Each Abortion Increases Women’s Risk of Premature Death by 50 Percent, New Study Reports New Legislation Would Help Women Who Have Suffered Psychological Distress Following […]
12/11/2017 Women Who’ve Been There Say Abortion Doesn’t Help, Causes More Harm A teen girl is pregnant as a result of rape. Does she need an abortion? That’s what many judges in India seem to be thinking, as yet another court has granted permission for an abortion to be performed on a 13 year-old girl […]
This video provides an overview of a new systematic review of the medical literature that reveals that each induced abortion a woman undergoes increases her risk of premature death by 50 percent or more. The elevated risk of death is evident within the first 180 days, the risk of death from any cause is […]
11/7/2017 A pregnant teenage girl who is in the US illegally has undergone an abortion, in the midst of a legal battle between abortion advocates and the Trump administration over whether the abortion could take place. According to the Associated Press, the Department of Justice has accused the ACLU of failing to tell them about […]
By Secular Pro-Life Perspectives One of the more disturbing articles I’ve read this week comes from an Ohio affiliate of National Public Radio, and it is entitled “Unaccompanied In Pain: Gaps In Ohio Law Hurt Teen Moms.” It describes how pregnant teens who are estranged from their families are caught in a horrific legal loophole: […]
9/11/2017 An appeals court in Alabama has reversed a judge’s ruling preventing a minor girl from undergoing an abortion: Alabama state law says minors must get permission from their parents to have an abortion (§ 26-21-1 et seq., Ala. Code 1975). The statute does, however, say that minors can obtain waivers from the court that […]
6/9/2017 With Father’s Day approaching, this is a must-read article from The Daily Telegraph (Australia) about the link between abortion and suicide among men: Piecing together the pain of loss for men after abortion By Corrine Barraclough There are some times in life when you don’t join the dots until you have a conversation […]
2/21/2017 New legislation introduced in Florida and Iowa would make it easier for women who suffer psychological distress after abortion to hold abortionists accountable. Usually, tort law doesn’t allow for recovery of damages for emotional distress unless it is the result of physical injury. This means that a woman experiencing psychological problems after an […]
Introduction Recent news reports have put teens and abortion in the news, with the release of undercover videos allegedly showing abortion businesses covering up cases of sexual abuse involving teenage girls. And the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute has released a report saying that teen pregnancies rose 3 percent in 2006. While critics are questioning the statistics […]
11/9/16 By Calvin Freiburger (Via Live Action News) Alex Zielinski of the San Antonio Current is not happy that pro-life lawyer and Justice Foundation president Allan Parker sent a letter to Texas school districts offering guidance counselors and nurses training and resources on state law against coerced abortions. From Parker’s letter: This important information deals […]
8/26/16 As controversy over the Zika virus rages, a recent study has found that abortion in cases of diagnosed fetal anomalies poses greater risks to the mental health of mothers than continuing the pregnancy and allowing nature to take its course. “There appears to be a psychological benefit to women to continue the pregnancy following […]
3/31/16 From Charles Camosy in the New York Daily News: Broadly legal abortion is the product of privileged men. Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Foundation sponsored the lower court cases designed to provoke Roe vs. Wade. (Interestingly, Hefner claims that he “was a feminist before there was such a thing as feminism.”) And Roe, of […]
3/31/16 Clarke D. Forsythe writes at LifeNews.com: The political claim—that women were or will be prosecuted or jailed under abortion laws—has been made so frequently by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW over the past 40 years that it has become an urban legend. It shows the astonishing power of contemporary media to make a complete […]
2/5/16 A series of studies on post-partum mental health from Denmark have demonstrated diligent efforts to conceal the negative effects of abortion on women’s mental health, according to an article published in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. The research team, led by Trine Munk-Olsen, specializes in analyses of Denmark’s national medical records, especially […]
1/22/16 Today is the 43nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions. In a Jan. 24, 1973 editorial, The New York Times proclaimed: The Supreme Court has made a major contribution to the preservation of individual liberties and of free decision-making by its invalidation of state laws inhibiting a woman’s right […]
For Immediate Release December 29, 2015 By David C. Readon, Ph.D. Congressional hearings into Planned Parenthood should look beyond the deceptive fetal tissue donation forms they ask women to sign. These misleading disclosure forms typify a larger pattern of deception and exploitation. An even more shocking abuse lies in the fact that Planned Parenthood abortionists […]
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 […]
