by APFLI | Oct 3, 2016 | Abortion - Archive
When the Supreme Court tossed out certain provisions of a Texas abortion safety law earlier this year, in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, it did so without considering egregious conditions that exist in Texas abortion facilities, which prompted the passage...
by APFLI | Oct 1, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Right to Life - Archive
An international pro-life pregnancy care center umbrella group is urging Illinois pregnancy centers to defy a new state law requiring them to participate in abortions, even as those centers and others file suit against the law. In a letter quoted in part by Heartbeat...
by APFLI | Sep 22, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
The rule is meant to protect the public from communicable diseases, according to a state analysis. An abortion rights activist said state officials have ignored concerns aired this summer. The state said that small facilities can turn to unspecified private businesses...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2016 | Abortion - Archive
You walk into a medical office, but almost immediately something doesn’t seem quite right. Later you learn that poorly trained staff conducted faulty ultrasounds, filed negligent result reports, and injected you with cut-rate drugs that most legitimate doctors...
by APFLI | Aug 22, 2016 | Abortion - Archive
Late Friday [19 Aug 2016], it was announced that leading United Kingdom abortion agency Marie Stopes International will suspend a significant percent of abortion procedures following a surprise inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator...
by APFLI | Jul 22, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Studies - Depression / Suicide / Mental Health
Abortion during the late teen and early adult years raises a woman’s risk of mental health problems and may be linked to almost one in ten cases of these women’s mental disorders, a new study says. A sociologist at CUA found that the risks of a mental disorder with...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2016 | Abortion - Archive
A few months after AmeriCorps was caught illegally using taxpayer dollars to help women get abortions, the public service agency announced an end to its problematic healthcare program, according to Jezebel. In April, news broke that some volunteers in the...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) struck down a Texas law (H.B.2) that sought to protect women’s health by requiring abortion clinics follow minimum standards for ambulatory surgical centers and that abortionists have surgical privileges at a...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
The Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico decided 3 to 1 to reject a proposal to overturn federal law and declare that the criminalization of abortion is unconstitutional and that women have the right to make their own decisions on abortion. Currently abortion is illegal...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Birth Control Archive
The Lancet, known for its medical journal, and highly esteemed at the United Nations, has released a new report, “Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and well-being”, through which it addresses the health of adolescents, the group who...
by APFLI | Jun 29, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
In 2011 alone, abortion related complications affected 26,500 women and over 3000 women needed hospitalization; but the abortion industry has opposed Common sense health standards at every level in every State in America, and on June 27th 2016 the abortion industry...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
Many different factors are playing a part in the record number of abortion businesses closing all across the country. New abortion regulations, sidewalk counseling and educational efforts such as 40 Days for Life, pregnancy resource centers and more have contributed...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, General Information / History / Stats / Types, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life
The first-ever Pro-Life Women’s Conference took place in June 2016 in Dallas. We need to understand how far we must go — and what we must do — to achieve success by 2020. The Guttmacher Institute’s new report reveals things have gotten worse...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Media - Fertilization / Pregnancy / Human Development, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption, Responses - Ideas To Promote Life
Among the various pro-life bills introduced at the state level, Oklahoma’s recent plan to start teaching fetal development in public schools deserves far more attention than it’s gotten so far. Banning certain abortion procedures, regulating abortionists, defunding...
by APFLI | Jun 22, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
2:30 minute Video – http://www.lifenews.com/2016/06/22/after-discovering-down-syndrome-jerome-lejeune-was-upset-aborted-targeted-children-with-it/ It is August 1969 in San Francisco and Professor Jerome Lejeune is addressing the annual meeting of the American...
by APFLI | May 27, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother
Students for Life has a new video out that examines the question of whether aborting an unborn baby is necessary to save a woman’s life. Tina Whittington, executive vice president of Students for Life, walks pro-lifers through the question in the short video. She...
by APFLI | May 27, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Population - Archive
G7 Leaders Commit to Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are meeting this week at the 2016 G7 Summit in Ise-Shima, Japan. The 2016 Summit, like previous G7 meetings, has focused on some of the most pressing...
by APFLI | May 26, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Legislation / Court Cases
In her responding brief opposing the defense motion to quash the tainted indictments, Anderson makes one more startling admission. She acknowledged that her office violated the law when it made public Daleiden and Merritt’s indictments before they were served or...
by APFLI | May 26, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood
Yesterday [25 May 2016], the Ohio Senate approved legislation that would require abortion businesses to treat the bodies of aborted babies humanely after the abortion. The bill came about after Planned Parenthood abortion sites were caught dumping aborted babies in...
by APFLI | May 26, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Legislation / Court Cases, Studies - PreTerm Delivery / Premature Birth / Prematurity Complications
Comment: There are many reasons for premature birth, one of which is previous abortion. Abortion can weaken the cervix, so that as the baby gets bigger, the weakened cervix cannot stay contracted, and the mother gives birth too early. There are now over 140 published...