Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
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 […]
10/5/2015 | by David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Women with a history of abortion are three times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorders, according to a new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. The researchers’ findings were based on a comparison of reproductive histories of women treated for bipolar disorders with a control […]
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 […]
From the archives: An expert on violence against women has warned that the “right to abortion” enslaves women and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Iñigo Urien Azpitarte of the organization Professionals for Ethics said that abortion puts women in a position of inequality and makes it easier for those who don’t want to […]
From 2008: A police sergeant in California told the media that parental notification laws help protect teens and young girls who are victims of sexual abuse. Sgt. Tom Yarrington was speaking in support of Proposition 4, a ballot measure to require that abortion businesses inform the parents of a minor girl before an abortion is […]
From OneNewsNow: A pro-abortion doctor has written a book where he ignores evidence of the harm of abortion. His position conflicts with existing research. Dr. David A. Grimes, who has spent years promoting abortion, argues in a new book that abortion victims do not have psychological complications after terminating the lives of their babies. David […]
By Deana Schroeder Note: The following is a guest post from a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Pregnant By Sexual Assault (WPSA). I’ve been there. I was 17, drugged and raped. When I learned I was pregnant, my family, counselors, and doctors took control. They intended the best. They wanted to help me. […]
Today, Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers testified before the Congressional Executive Commission on China about the one-child policy. The policy requires Chinese couples to have a birth permit before having a child, with most being allowed only one child. The enforcement of this policy includes birth quotas, invasive medical examinations for women, and […]
At Salon, Valerie Tarico lays out 10 reasons why she is “pro-abortion, not just pro-choice,” writing: I’m pro-abortion because being able to delay and limit childbearing is fundamental to female empowerment and equality. A woman who lacks the means to manage her fertility lacks the means to manage her life. She goes on to write […]
The Population Research Institute has posted excerpts from a speech that Anne Morse recently gave to the United Nations about the human rights abuses perpetrated in India’s sterilization camps: Last November, 83 women were sterilized in a matter of hours at a sterilization camp in the east Indian state of Chhattisgarh. At least a dozen women […]