by APFLI | May 24, 2016 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill, Right to Life - Archive
Sara Fernanda Giromini, a former feminist who once bared her breasts in public to protest against Christian sexual morality, testified recently in the Brazilian National Congress on the devastation she suffered as a result of an abortion she procured during her years...
by APFLI | Nov 4, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill, Studies - RU486 / Chemical Abortion / Maternal Mortality
A North Carolina doctor is saving unborn babies and giving their mothers hope that they can reverse a nearly fatal mistake. Dr. Matthew Harrison, and other doctors, have helped 213 mothers reverse the effects of their chemical abortions and have saved their babies’...
by APFLI | Aug 20, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill, Reasons for Abstinence
In Britain, one in 20 minors are being prescribed birth control pills without their parents’ knowledge. The Daily Mail reports that some of these girls are as young as 12-years-old, and approximately 75,000 girls under the age of 16 receive the pill every year. This...
by APFLI | Aug 5, 2015 | Abstinence - Archive, Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
A new poll published in July 2015 has shown that an increasing number of teen girls are using the morning-after pill on a regular basis. Even though far fewer teenagers are having sex than teens a generation ago, more than 1 in 5 sexually-active teen girls have used...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion, Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
She died after 25 days on the pill. She was only 21. As in so many blood clot cases caused by birth control, she was misdiagnosed when she went to the hospital struggling to breathe and experiencing pain in her legs and ribs. She was sent home diagnosed with a bruised...
by APFLI | Apr 12, 2015 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
We are told by the media and our culture today that abortion is a woman’s issue and men should stay out of the debate. After all, abortion on demand empowers women, gives them options to navigate a “man’s world,” and allows them to throw off the shackles of an...
by APFLI | Apr 12, 2015 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
[Comment: Plan B (and the later Ella drug to be taken even a week later) were made possible when in the 1960s, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ redefined of the beginning of life from conception to implantation in the uterus to provide cover...
by APFLI | Apr 12, 2015 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Media report that Plan B has no effect on human embryos, but research studies don’t support that conclusion. By Dr. Donna Harrison, Director of Research and Public Policy of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists Plan B Some researchers...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Legislative Info — “Emergency Contraception” Education Background: In 2003, measures called Emergency Contraception Education Acts (H.R. 1812, S. 896) were introduced in both the House and Senate. These bills authorize $10 million for each of...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
"The near-simultaneous emergence of this hot political topic [the morning-after pill] in several…countries is 'certainly not by chance,' says Carlos Polo, a representative of the Population Research Institute in south America. According to Polo:...
by APFLI | Feb 21, 2014 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
FIND PAST HOMEPAGE TOPICS UNDER "CURRENT HEADLINES/ BIRTH CONTROL" IN THE LEFT MENU… New! Hormonal Contraceptives Increase Risk of Gestational Diabetes New! ‘The Pill’ Shrinks Ovaries, Cuts Egg Numbers Link Between Breast...
by APFLI | Dec 31, 2012 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
FIND PAST HOMEPAGE TOPICS UNDER "CURRENT HEADLINES/ BIRTH CONTROL" IN THE LEFT MENU… ‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg’: 23 Canadian Women Dead in 6 years While on Yaz/Yasmin Birth Control Girls Need Prescription for Tanning But Not for...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2012 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
FIND PAST HOMEPAGE TOPICS UNDER "CURRENT HEADLINES/ BIRTH CONTROL" IN THE LEFT MENU… The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular – and the Lawsuits are Piling Up WORTH READING: Birth Control May Boost Risk of Carrying Staph Bacteria WORTH...
by APFLI | May 24, 2012 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
[Comment: Note this quote from the article: “According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, about 9% of women using the pill, patch, or ring for three years will get pregnant.” (emphasis added) The article is titled “Effectiveness of Long-Acting...
by APFLI | Jan 2, 2012 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
FIND PAST HOMEPAGE TOPICS UNDER "CURRENT HEADLINES" IN THE LEFT MENU… NEW! Study: Birth-Control Depo-Provera Shots Tied to Breast-Cancer Risk — Depo Provera = 'Neutron Bomb' in the 'War on Women'...
by APFLI | Nov 13, 2011 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
[Ed. Note: Knowledge of the HIV – Hormonal Birth Control Link has been known for decades by birth control and abortion leaders. Only as the weight of these studies becomes unbearable, is the information finally seeping to the general public.] ...
by APFLI | Mar 26, 2011 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Significant Risks of Oral Contraceptives (OCPs): Why This Drug Class Should NOT Be Included In a Preventative Care Mandate By Rebecca Peck, M.D., CCD Primary Care physicians spend a substantial part of their clinical time counseling patients on...
by APFLI | May 17, 2007 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Supporters of Plan B and other types of “emergency contraception” (EC) used to claim that easier access to EC could “result in a greater than 50% reduction in abortion rates.” J. Trussell et al., “Emergency Contraception: A Simple...
by APFLI | May 3, 2007 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Pharmaceutical companies and the medical community have suddenly acknowledged a link between the birth control pill and breast cancer. Numerous studies showing a clear link between the use of birth control and the development of breast cancer have been largely ignored...
by APFLI | Nov 29, 2006 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
On August 23 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved over-the-counter (OTC) sale of the “emergency contraceptive” Plan B for men and women 18 and older. Under a novel distribution scheme (one that is arguably outside FDA authority), girls under 18...