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Christina Dunigan at RealChoice has a post on the anniversary of the death of Erika Peterson, who died while undergoing a legal abortion meant to save her life: Erika Peterson, age 28, died July 23, 1961 during a legal abortion at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California. At this time, abortion was only legal […]
6/14/2013 Denise Hummell, M.D. writes at Zenit: Scientific studies from around the world show that younger women, specifically those between the ages of 25 and 39, are increasingly being diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer—which has often spread further in the body by the time of diagnosis. A study on cancer rates in Geneva, Switzerland, published in […]
This week experts testified before a Congressional subcommittee on a bill that would ban abortions nationwide past 20 weeks. A 2010 study of women who had abortions found that women undergoing later abortions face increased psychological risks, are more likely to be ambivalent about having an abortion and are more likely to need counseling and […]
Tells Legislators That Performing Abortions “Would Entail Undue and Dangerous Delay” in Providing Life-Saving Care for Women From the testimony of Dr. Anthony Levatino, an ob-gyn who formerly performed abortions and has treated women with high-risk pregnancies, before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice on a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks: Before […]
(And Killed Women After Roe v. Wade) By Christina Dunigan The abortion-lobby response to the Kermit Gosnell mass murder debacle has been to insist that Gosnell was not enabled by pro-choicers, even though — in the spirit of Janis “Aghast in My Gut” Compton-Carr, perhaps — they employed him, referred to him, failed to report […]
(Springfield, IL – May 7, 2013) — A meta-analysis combining the results of eight studies of women facing unwanted pregnancies, published in the April 2013 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, has concluded that “there is no available evidence to suggest that abortion has therapeutic effects in reducing the mental health risks of unwanted or […]
Reproductive Research Audit’s Jacqueline Harvey, Ph.D., reports on a flawed study claiming that webcam abortions may be safer for women: The American Journal of Public Health has preliminarily released an electronic version of Changes in Service Delivery Patterns After Introduction of Telemedicine Provision of Medical Abortion in Iowa, a study which examines the effect that […]
4/24/2013 Group Challenges Danish Researchers to Study the Whole Group, Use Record-Linkage Database The following statement was released by The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer on April 24, 2013. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer commented on a Danish study led by Christina Braüner entitled, “Induced abortion and breast cancer among parous women: A Danish cohort study.”[1] […]
3/29/2013 By Joel Brind, Ph.D. In the three previous installments of this series, I documented the epidemiological evidence for the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link, and the ongoing wall of denial from the official purveyors of public health information, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this final installment, I’ll go over the basic, underlying biology […]
3/28/2013 By Joel Brind, Ph.D. In Part II of this series of articles on the link between abortion and breast cancer, I described how the “reporting bias” or “response bias” argument has been systematically used by the most prominent medical research authorities in the western world to deny the reality of the ABC link. It […]
3/27/2013 By Joel Brind, Ph.D. The following article originally appeared at NRL News Today. In Part I of this four-part series of articles on the link between abortion and breast cancer (the ABC link), I described the two primary ways in which abortion increases a woman’s future risk of breast cancer: 1. Via loss of […]
3/26/2013 By Joel Brind, Ph.D. The following article originally appeared at NRL News Today. See the end of this article for links to the rest of the series. In this first of four articles on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link, Dr. Joel Brind, a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College of the City […]
Here is an excellent video from Ireland in which medical experts speak out about abortion and suicide. It provides a good overview of the information showing that (a) there is no evidence that abortion provides any help in cases where a pregnant women is suicidal, and (b) research has shown that the suicide rate is […]
A new study has found that women with a history of induced abortion were more likely to experience metabolic syndrome compared to women who had never had abortions, increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. Women who had a history of induced abortion were 1.25 times more likely to have metabolic syndrome compared […]
Note: the video link in this post has been updated. Here is a new video on the link between abortion and subsequent pre-term birth, a topic we have discussed on this site before. Here is yet more evidence of the harm caused by abortion to women and their subsequent children, yet women and their loved […]
Physical Side Effects Associated With Abortion Printable Fact Sheets Psychological Complications More articles on abortion complications Approximately 10% of women undergoing induced abortion suffer from immediate complications, of which one-fifth (2%) were considered major.19 However the majority of complications take time to develop and will not be apparent for days, months or even years. Negative psychological […]
A recent report on abortion released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) noted that, “In 2008, the most recent year for which data were available, 12 women were reported to have died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortions.” The number of reported abortion-related deaths doubled from the year before, when […]
Would More Women Die If Not for Legalization? By Christina Dunigan Demetrice Andrews, age 22, underwent an abortion on October 17, 1988. She became progressively ill, and was finally admitted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Demetrice suffered multiple organ failure. She died on November 9, 1988. It is ironic that Demetrice was admitted to […]
10/12/2012 According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, approximately 45 percent of abortions are repeat abortions. Two new studies released last month have found increased risks for women who undergo multiple abortions. One study, co-authored by Elliot Institute director Dr. David Reardon, found that women who undergo abortions have an increased risk of death: A single induced […]
One of our past posts included the stories of five women in Maryland who died as a result of abortion, and whose deaths were never counted as abortion-related in any official statistics. Here’s a link to an article about another “invisible death” on the RealChoice blog — that of 17-year-old Latachie Veal, who died in […]
9/18/12 A new study has found that women who undergo multiple abortions have an increased risk of preterm birth in a subsequent pregnancy. According to a report: A new study released from Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare finds women who have multiple abortions have a greater risk of premature birth and low-birthweight babies […]
Springfield, IL (September 7, 2012) — A single induced abortion increases the risk of maternal death by 45 percent compared to women with no history of abortion, according to a new study of all women of reproductive age in Denmark over a 25 year period. In addition, each additional abortion is associated with an even […]
Studies in U.S., Finland, and Denmark show women are more likely to die after an abortion than after childbirth.
