by APFLI | Dec 28, 2011 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
… As a former student at a medical college, I’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath in order to participate in clinicals. Because of this, I know there is a “first do no harm” clause. … [I]t is that doctor’s job to ‘first do no harm.’ NOT saving the life of a...
by APFLI | Mar 1, 2011 | Abortion - Archive, Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Studies - Depression / Suicide / Mental Health
Key Factors in Understanding Women’s Mental Health After Abortion Dr. Shuping presented this article at a United Nations workshop in March 2011, and at the June 2011 meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Research on Values and Social Change. In 1973,...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Study Shows Link Between Abortion and the Physical / Sexual Abuse of Women by Their Partners A study shows the link between abortion and the physical and sexual abuse to which women may be subjected in the relationship by their husband or boyfriend following the...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Late-Term Abortion Ups Repeat Pregnancy Termination Risk Women who have an abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy are more likely than women who terminate their pregnancies earlier to have repeat abortions, new research shows. And women who initially have a...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Forced Abortion in America: Women, Girls Who Refuse Abortion Are at Risk http://www.theunchoice.com/ForcedAbortions.pdf Yet Another Chinese Woman Lies Motionless Days After ‘Voluntary’ Abortion of Her 7-Month-Old… The REAL ‘War...
by APFLI | Aug 8, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
"One Week After the Abortion, My Sister Took Her Life" One Woman's Story of Sexual Abuse and Abortion My sister and I were both victims of incest. My sister was being sexually assaulted by my brothers for a number of years when she got her first abortion...
by APFLI | Aug 5, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Abortion and Reenacting Sexual Abuse: An Expert's View Theresa Burke, Ph.D., with David C. Reardon The following is excerpted from the book Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion by Theresa Burke, Ph.D., with David C. Reardon. It has been my...
by APFLI | May 15, 2010 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Half of Aborting Women Are Having Repeat Abortions, Study Finds Experts Say Repeat Abortions Are Often Result of Trauma, Coercion New statistics published by the pro-abortion Alan Guttmacher Institute indicate that half of women undergoing abortions have had a...
by APFLI | Jul 12, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Forced Abortion in America http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheet/ForcedAbortionReportAdvanced.pdf REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS: WOMEN AND GIRLS KILLED FOR REFUSING TO ABORT Following is just a partial list of women and girls who have...
by APFLI | Jun 20, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Forced Abortion in America http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheet/ForcedAbortionReportAdvanced.pdf Unsuitable for Motherhood? Women Face Social and Cultural Pressure to Abort In this excerpt from her book Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of...
by APFLI | Apr 29, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
BJOG. 2007 Oct;114(10):1246-52. Intimate partner violence and unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage, induced abortion, and stillbirth among a national sample of Bangladeshi women. Silverman JG, Gupta J, Decker MR, Kapur N, Raj A....
by APFLI | Mar 26, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
“SORRY,” SAYS PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR ACCEPTING DONATIONS TARGETING MINORITIES Planned Parenthood has apologized for accepting donations intended only to end the lives of black babies. The Advocate, a pro-life student magazine at UCLA, hired an actor last...
by APFLI | Feb 7, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
ADVERSE HEALTH CONDITIONS AND HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS ASSOCIATED WITH INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE — USA, 2005. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as threatened, attempted, or completed physical or sexual violence or emotional abuse by a current or former...
by APFLI | Feb 4, 2008 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Published by researchers at La Trobe University in Australia, the study finds that women who are abused by their partners are more likely to have an abortion of an unexpected pregnancy than to keep the baby. Women having abortions were also more likely to be from...
by APFLI | Sep 12, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Recent dating violence among urban teen females and lifetime history of sexual assault among urban teen males may be associated with suicide attempts, according to a report in the June 07 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the...
by APFLI | Sep 6, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Sterilization
An Israeli doctor has recently published an account of the Nazi use of abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization to eliminate groups they deemed “inferior stock”, especially Jewish and Slavic people. Dr. Tessa Chelouche writes that “Abortion was used...
by APFLI | Aug 31, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Former modeling agency owner Michael Britt, 43, who worked as a janitor at the abortion center, is the subject of the latest CT case involving sexual abuse and abortion for sexually assaulting teens aged 18, 17, & 14 in March and April 2005 after they signed...
by APFLI | Aug 26, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
How Many Illegal Abortions occurred in the USA? No one knows. Why? Because they were not reported. There are no statistics, no records anywhere. Therefore, if anyone tells you that there were X numbers of illegal abortions somewhere at a certain time, they are just...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Limitations of Maternal Mortality Measurement Worldwide, measuring maternal mortality is difficult because information is needed about pregnancy status at or near the time of death. Autopsy findings may or may not be available. Some maternal deaths are missed or...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2007 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion
Rosa's Case: Lies of a Feminist Network Exposed in Nicaragua "Rosa" was the name the feminists of the Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia, or Network of Women Against Violence (WNAV) gave to a 9-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who was raped and later became...