by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
In 2011, life expectancy at birth was 78.7 years for the total U.S. population, 76.3 years for males, and 81.1 years for females. Life expectancy was highest for Hispanics for both males and females. In each racial/ethnic group, females had higher life expectancies...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Each year, approximately 1.5 million U.S. adults have a heart attack or stroke, resulting in approximately 30 deaths every hour and, for nonfatal events, often leading to long-term disability (1). Overall, an estimated 14 million survivors of heart attacks and strokes...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Since the introduction and widespread use of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test in the 1950s in the United States, cervical cancer incidence and mortality have decreased dramatically (1,2). In addition to screening with a Pap test alone every 3 years, recent cervical cancer...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Twenty-five years ago, David Baxter was a paramedic in Canada, and “I was a fence-sitter,” he explained. “My wife and I discussed it, and it was a topic of argument for many years.” One day, while Baxter was working with the ambulance service he owned, they received a...
by APFLI | Jun 7, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Trameka P. is just graduating high school, but this valedictorian already has a remarkable life story to share. As an eighth grader, Trameka was facing an uphill battle: she was homeless and pregnant. Many people would say she was too young and that she had too much...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
Homeless and illegal immigrants are being denied needed hospital care because they are uninsured, according to 2 Rotterdam doctors who have been treating 20+ uninsured patients /week. In an articlc in the Dutch medical journal Medisch Contact, the doctors wrote that...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
The largest generational cohort in American history, the Baby Boomers, will be the first Americans to be denied available effective life-saving treatments for reasons of cost. The seeds for this mass liquidation have already been planted. Imagine that it is 2016, and...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
In Scotland, a pregnant woman has been found guilty of fraud after conning her boyfriend into thinking she had an abortion so she could give their baby to a gay friend. The woman and her friend could face up to five years in prison. As LifeNews previously reported,...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive
A Times investigation finds the California state nurse licensing board allowed sex offenders, drug users and convicts to retain and renew their permits. Dozens of registered nurses convicted of crimes, including sex offenses and attempted murder, have remained fully...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive, Right to Life - Archive
[Comment: This is how medicine is turning away from the principle of the best care for the individual to the so-called best interests of the community. N. Valko RN] The New England Journal of Medicine–ever more radically utilitarian, in my view–has an article by...
by APFLI | Jan 23, 2015 | Right to Life - Archive, Studies - General Research
In 2013, the age-adjusted cervical cancer [malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri] death rate was 2.3 per 100,000. The rate for non-Hispanic black females was nearly double the rate for non-Hispanic white females (4.0 compared to 2.1) and 1.6 higher than the rate of 2.5...
by APFLI | Nov 26, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
Late in the day on Friday, November 21st, 2014 the Department of Health and Human Services issued a proposed rule that outlines ways in which insurance companies can avoid collecting separate payments for the abortion surcharge. “Instead of addressing the significant...
by APFLI | Jul 23, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
Abortion businesses are going out of business at a rapid rate. According to a 2014 Rasmussen Poll, the number of Americans who consider themselves pro-life is at an all-time high of 44 percent. A slight majority, 52 percent, now consider abortion to be morally wrong...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
Even though it should not surprise us, it is still disturbing to know that more men than women support abortion. I came across this article today and I agree with the author’s analysis. ...
by APFLI | Apr 14, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
Frans Hofmeester is a professional filmmaker and video artist from Utrecht, Netherlands. In this delightful video, he filmed his daughter, Lotte, from 0 months to 14-years-old, and then he edited it all together to show his little girl growing up. “This new Time-Lapse...
by APFLI | Apr 14, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
…NCFL [National Conference for Life] organizers asked me to encourage our Irish counterparts by describing how we are winning the war against abortion in America. I thought I’d post the statistics I showed – many compiled by abortion proponents – demonstrating...
by APFLI | Apr 13, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
From the national 40 Days for Life Campaign headquarters, come these two stories of why pro-life people do what they do. Alexandria, Virginia A woman pulled into an empty parking lot near the 40 Days for Life vigil in Alexandria – and waited there for about 30...
by APFLI | Apr 11, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
For anyone tired of hearing silly made-up phrases like “uterine contents” or “blob of tissue,” this video from Signal Hill is for you. In the video, a group of women celebrate a “Uterine Contents Shower” complete with a Happy “Product of Conception” cake. Later on a...
by APFLI | Feb 21, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive
FIND PAST HOMEPAGE TOPICS UNDER "CURRENT HEADLINES" IN THE LEFT MENU… "People only REALLY believe that which Motivates Them to Action." Resources American Heritage Girls: An Alternative to the Girl Scouts http://www.ahgonline.org/...
by APFLI | Jan 3, 2014 | Right to Life - Archive