Abortion
« Previous EntriesUltrasounds, “Missing Angels” & Defining Life
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Judging from comments made by pro-choice activists, Michelle Goldberg (author of Kingdom Coming) and Rebecca Traister (of Salon.com), technological advancements are having an impact on the rhetoric used in the abortion debate. In their discussion of the “internal contradiction” between third term abortions and ultrasound images, the women recognized the need to evolve from using [...]
Heightened Risk of Pre-Term Birth Study
Monday, July 21st, 2008This is the second of a series of posts highlighting various studies that document medical risks from abortion.
Heightened Risk of Pre-Term Birth (PTB)
Moreau, et al., “Previous Induced Abortion and the Risk of Very PreTerm Delivery: Results of the EPIPAGE Study,” 112 Brit. J. Gyn 430 (April 2005).
Abstract:
There is some concern about the effects of induced [...]
Kemp-Kasten Provision under Fire
Friday, July 18th, 2008This week, the U.S. House State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee approved a 2009 funding bill that will undermine the Kemp-Kasten provision—the provision that allows the President to withhold funds from any organization that “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
It is under the Kemp-Kasten [...]
Tiller’s Aides Discontinue Their Late-Term Abortion Services
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Two physicians providing medical evaluations and second opinions for late-term abortions performed by George Tiller at the Kansas Wichita Clinic discontinued their services on Monday, according to a local newspaper.
Kansas law requires that any abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy be performed only if two independent doctors determine that carrying the pregnancy to term would [...]
WSJ on Black Abortions in America
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008William McGurn does the country a great service today by writing a column on the largely unreported story of how the abortion industry targets black Americans. Did you know that while one of every five white pregnancies ends in abortion, one of every two black pregnancies end that way? Or that Planned Parenthood fundraisers have [...]
Bush Administration Proposes Additional Protections for Healthcare Freedom of Conscience
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008On Monday, the Bush administration began circulating a proposed policy that would require all recipients of federal money under any program run by the Department of Health and Human Services to certify that they will not discriminate against healthcare providers who object to participating in abortions.
Although the announcement of this draft policy was met with [...]
Obama promise to sign FOCA now on YouTube
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008A two minute excerpt of Barack Obama’s speech before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund last year where he promised that the first thing he would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act is now on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0XIRZSTt8
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Planned Parenthood Backs Obama because of His Pro-Abortion Views
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Planned Parenthood endorsed a candidate for President - Barack Obama.
The endorsement, while unsurprising, may make it more difficult for Obama to move to the middle on abortion - something he has been looking to do over the past few weeks.
For example, Obama told Relevant magazine last week, “I have repeatedly said that I think it’s [...]
Case Status Update: South Dakota’s Informed Consent Provisions Bypass Hurdle in Planned Parenthood v. Rounds
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008In a decision issued last week by the Eighth Circuit (sitting en banc), the Court reversed a preliminary injunction that had blocked the enforcement of certain provisions of South Dakota’s informed consent law.
The provisions require that a woman be informed that “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” [...]
Case Status Update: Ohio Supreme Court Will Look at RU-486 Law
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008For the last several years, the State of Ohio has been in litigation defending its law requiring that physicians prescribing RU-486 abide by the FDA’s protocol when dispensing the drug. On June 23, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law should be evaluated by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Passed in 2004, the law [...]
Abortion Alternatives Programs: Reducing Abortions and Protecting a Woman’s Right to Choose Childbirth Over Abortion
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008The Minnesota abortion alternatives program, “Positive Alternatives,” has just been granted roughly 1.5 million dollars in state funding per year for the next three years, totaling to 4.7 million dollars.
The Positive Alternatives program was approved by the state legislature in 2005. Non-profit organizations that qualify for participation in the program will be reimbursed with state [...]
Congressional Leaders Pull Stop Abuse Bill over Parental Rights
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Last night, House leaders abruptly pulled HR 5876, the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act, from the floor over a Motion to Recommit that would have required that any facility covered under the bill have a policy in place to require parental consent before distributing any prescription medication, including contraception and Plan [...]
Latest National Polls Show Sharp Increase in Number of Pro-Life Americans
Thursday, June 19th, 20082008 Polling Results
A number of recent polls show that the majority of Americans are pro-life and favor more restrictions on abortion, and that the number of Americans who identify themselves as pro-abortion/pro-choice has dropped to its lowest in the past seven years.
ABC News and Washington Post polling results show not only that the percent of [...]
Study Reveals that Improper RU-486 Use Is Deadly
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008At least 14 women have now died—including 8 in the United States—after using the abortion drug RU-486. A new study by University of Michigan scientists reveals that improper use of the drug regimen—as pushed by Planned Parenthood—is killing women.
When the FDA approved RU-486, it directed that the drug be taken according to a certain regimen. [...]
AMA: Launching Yet Another Attack on Freedom of Conscience?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008The Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association (AMA) is asking its membership to adopt a policy that supports eviscerating the freedom of conscience of pharmacists. Specifically, the following recommendation will be considered at next week’s AMA meeting:
A pharmacist’s deliberate refusal to dispense a drug on religious, moral, or ethical grounds, i.e., pharmacist [...]
Did Your Member of Congress Co-sponsor FOCA?
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008As we noted here last week, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President has decided to award allies who helped him topple Hillary Clinton with a promise that the first thing he will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). If you haven’t yet seen the details of this horrific piece of [...]
The Battlefield Broadens: The Mexican Roe v. Wade
Thursday, June 5th, 2008In the last several years, the “usual suspects” in the pro-abortion movement have been infesting other nations with their pro-choice rhetoric. One need only peruse the first page of the Center for Reproductive Rights’ website to see headlines such as “Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Chilean Constitutional Tribunal’s Decision to Ban Distribution of ‘Morning-After Pill’ [...]
What Did Barack Obama Promise Planned Parenthood?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Last year before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Barack Obama told pro-abortion activists:
“The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
With a single stroke of the pen, Barack Obama would wipe away virtually every state law on abortion nationwide. Instantly, it will undo thirty-seven years of legal work, research, and [...]
Drastic Reduction of Abortions in Michigan Demonstrate the Importance of Incremental Protections
Thursday, May 29th, 2008As life-affirming laws in Michigan increase, the abortion rates in Michigan continue to plummet. Michigan state health officials announced last week that the abortion rate in the state have dropped to a record low since record-keeping began in 1979. The current abortion rate shows a 50% drop since the peak in 1987, and a 3.7% [...]