Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
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 […]
3/29/16 By Lianne Laurence Although Africa has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, an international abortion lobby is diverting desperately needed medical care from African mothers by pushing instead for increased access to contraceptives and legalized abortion across the continent, according to panelists at an event held during the two-week UN Conference on the […]
3/21/16 Today is World Down Syndrome Day. Sadly, most unborn children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted — often after parents are given poor information and pressured or coerced to abort by medical staff. Most people also don’t know about the negative impact that such abortions can also have on parents and families. As one […]
Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2016 Download Issue (pdf format) Contents: Planned Parenthood is Guilty of Negligent Screening What I’ve Learned from Women Facing Abortion Alliance of Pro-Life Students Research Links Abortion, Pregnancy Complications Recommendation for Depression Screening for Pregnant Women Should Extend to Abortion Coming Soon: Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2016
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 […]
For Immediate Release (Jan 27, 2016 – Springfield, IL) The United States Preventive Services Task Force has issued a recommendation to screen women for depression before and after pregnancy in an effort to identify women at risk of post-partum depression and other pregnancy-associated mental health illnesses. Elliot Institute Director David Reardon said that “it is important […]
1/22/16 As we mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton: 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? […]
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 […]
12/8/15 A Nebraska couple has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado abortion business over an incomplete abortion that led to a hysterectomy, The Denver Post is reporting: Jennifer and Jason DeBuhr of Auburn, Neb., have filed a lawsuit against Dr. Warren Hern and the Boulder Abortion Clinic seeking more then $75,000 damages, claiming the doctor […]
12/3/2015 By Deana Schroeder “She asked for it.” That is how a 17-year-old boy responded when confronted with the rape of an 8-year-old girl. At 8 years old. “She asked for it!” The words ring in my head. Most eight-year-old girls don’t know about sex. Certainly, not enough to ask for it. However, that is […]
10/21/15 … [E]lective abortion doesn’t make you free; it doesn’t make your life better. After an abortion, you are merely surviving. Every morning, you look in the mirror and feel sick in the pit of your stomach. You are repeating: “I’m not a bad person”. You take your anxiety pills and try to ignore the […]
9/25/2015 This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington, DC for an official state visit, meeting with President Obama to discuss issues such as cybersecurity and North Korea. But today is also the 35th anniversary of China’s “one-child policy”, which has been blamed for “causing more violence against women and girls than any other […]
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 […]
