by APFLI | Jul 13, 2015 | Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Studies - General Research
Please Note that any non-invasive prenatal chromosomal tests could test positive, possibly from cancer present in the mother. “[T]he new findings underscore the need to have any positive result confirmed by amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling diagnostic...
by APFLI | Jun 14, 2015 | Studies - General Research
This recent review article is a publication, ahead of printing, in Issues in Law & Medicine, Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring), 2015. Elard Koch, Director of Research MELISA Institute, Concepcion, Chile. Fifty References. ABSTRACT: Mortality by abortion has...
by APFLI | Apr 26, 2015 | Studies - General Research
American College of Pediatricians – February 2015 ABSTRACT: Induced abortion is the most common surgical procedure performed on females of child-bearing age, including adolescent women. Consequently, pediatricians should be familiar with the short-term and long-term...
by APFLI | Mar 21, 2015 | Studies - General Research
For twenty-five years the pro-life movement has stood up to defend perhaps the most crucial principle in any civilized society, namely, the sanctity and value of every human life. However, neither the profundity and scale of the cause, nor the integrity of those who...
by APFLI | Mar 21, 2015 | Studies - General Research
A New Understanding of the Trauma of Abortion The pro-life movement has long endeavored to understand the complex emotional struggle behind a woman’s decision to continue or abort an unplanned pregnancy. To explore the dynamics of this dilemma and to aid...
by APFLI | Mar 21, 2015 | Studies - General Research
ABSTRACT Aim: Oral contraceptive use influences the risk for certain cancers; however, few studies have examined any link with risk of central nervous system tumors. We investigated the association between hormonal contraceptive use and glioma risk among premenopausal...
by APFLI | Mar 21, 2015 | Studies - General Research
J Contemp Health Law Policy. 2004 Spring;20(2):279-327. Reardon DC1, Strahan TW, Thorp JM Jr, Shuping MW. 2004 PubMed PMID: 15239361 [ http://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=jchlp ] Comment re: “The comparative safety of legal...
by APFLI | Mar 7, 2015 | Studies - General Research
Chinese Study Data From the Health Examinees Study [Comment: An American researcher has made this notation: “I would caution against a causal interpretation here as implied in the study’s bottom line: Specifically, the very same factors that lead to late...
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 | Dec 1, 2014 | Studies - General Research, Studies - PreTerm Delivery / Premature Birth / Prematurity Complications
In this 2014 PROSPECTIVE study, Chinese researchers found that multiple (so-called recurrent) induced abortions nearly triple the risk of PPROM (O.R. = 2.75). In other words: China’s One-Child-Policy is crippling babies:...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Studies - General Research
The Decline in Adolescent Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates in the 1990s: What Factors Are Responsible? by The Physicians Consortium (formerly the Consortium of State Physicians Resource Councils), 7January1999 —...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Studies - General Research
ABORTION AND THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY Researchers with the Association of Interdisciplinary Research reviewed over 26 studies related to the impact of abortion on the socio-economic status of women. These are the findings: Women who have had abortions are at...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Men & Abortion, Studies - General Research
ABORTION EFFECTS ON MEN Studies show that abortion hurts men as well as women: The pain of broken relationships. Surveys demonstrated that more than 50% of the male-female relationships end within one year after the abortion of their child. Moral guilt. Of 1,050 men...
by APFLI | Nov 16, 2014 | Studies - General Research
A study based on a national, random sample of 700 women participating in a reproductive history survey, found that of the women surveyed, those who aborted their first pregnancy were 3.9 times more likely to engage in subsequent drug or alcohol abuse than those who...
by APFLI | May 6, 2013 | Studies - General Research
New Study Links Abortion to Metabolic Syndrome, Increasing Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke A new study [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23389282 , see below] has found that women with a history of induced abortion were more likely to experience metabolic syndrome...
by APFLI | Mar 3, 2012 | Studies - General Research
ABORTION IS SAFER THAN CHILDBIRTH?? Feb, 2012 The prominent "Original Research" article "The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in the United States", by Raymond and Grimes in the Feb, 2012, journal "Obstetrics &...
by APFLI | Oct 12, 2010 | Studies - General Research
Study: Women Who Use Abortion Drug Mifepristone Experience More Pain, Emotional Distress The abortion drug mifepristone (more commonly known as RU 486) was supposed to be a panacea for women — allowing them to have safer abortions in the privacy of their own...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2010 | Studies - General Research
Surgical abortion may increase the likelihood of certain autoimmune diseases, according to a new report by Dr. Ralph P. Miech of Brown University. Fetal microchimerism – the transfer of fetal cells into the bloodstream of the mother, whence they may be grafted...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2010 | Studies - General Research
Preliminary findings by a prominent biomedical researcher examining the dramatic decrease in maternal mortality, over the past fifty years in the Latin American nation of Chile, appear to undercut claims by global abortion lobbyists that liberal abortion laws...
by APFLI | Jan 31, 2010 | Studies - General Research
Survey Finds Girls Less Likely Than Boys to Recommend Abortion to Friends A new survey conducted by the Girl Scouts finds girls are less likely than boys to recommend abortion to their friends. And, overall, less than 10 percent of young people say they would...
