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An average of eight years after their abortions, married women who had aborted were 138 percent more likely to be at high risk of clinical depression compared to similar women who carried their unintended first pregnancies to term.           -- David Reardon, Ph.D., British Medical Journal, 2003
 
AAPLOG Statement on Partial Birth Abortion PDF Print E-mail
The American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists is strongly opposed to the procedure known to the general public as "Partial Birth Abortion" and know in medical terminology as "Intact Dilatation and Extraction," or "intact D&X". This medical terminology was established in a policy statement by the Executive Board of ACOG issues on 12Jan97 entitled "Statement on Intact Dilatation and Extraction." "Intact D&X" is defined in the policy statement6 as being comprised of all of the following four elements:
 
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