by APFLI | Aug 17, 2016 | Child Development / Family Research, Parent Resources, Reasons for Abstinence, Responses - Advocacy / Dating / Instruction & Teaching Abstinence, Sterilization, Studies - Abstinence / Pornography / Sex Outside Marriage Research
The War on Abstinence and Fidelity A recent comment in The Lancet makes the case that when it comes to international HIV/AIDS prevention, abstinence and fidelity should be abandoned in favor of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). Titled “A farewell to abstinence...
by APFLI | Jun 30, 2016 | Abortion - Archive, Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Birth Control Archive
The Lancet, known for its medical journal, and highly esteemed at the United Nations, has released a new report, “Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and well-being”, through which it addresses the health of adolescents, the group who...
by APFLI | Jun 23, 2016 | Abortion Industry / Planned Parenthood, Birth Control Archive, Legislation / Court Cases
Just one Planned Parenthood affiliate in Iowa allegedly committed $28 million in medicaid fraud. And now a federal appeals court has ruled that it cannot stop the lawsuit a former Planned Parenthood clinic director filed against it. Former Planned Parenthood clinic...
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 | Dec 2, 2015 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism, Sterilization
Amidst Pro-Life Victory, Victims of Peru’s Sterilization Campaign Still Being Used—This Time for the Political Gain of Pro-Abortion Advocates Twenty-five years after hundreds of thousands of women were forcibly or coercively sterilized in Peru, these victims are still...
by APFLI | Nov 15, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Birth Control Archive, Eugenics / Race-Linked Abortion / Reproductive Racism
HIV/AIDS and women’s health advocates are criticizing a recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the safety of a controversial contraceptive favored by the Gates Foundation. Depo-Provera is a long-acting contraceptive distributed to poor women...
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 | Nov 2, 2015 | Birth Control Archive, Legal / Federal Action, Population Control
Who is REALLY in your bedroom? [Comment: At my follow-up exam after the birth of my fourth child, I was asked what kind of birth control I was on by my obstetrician’s partner. I was a bit offended by the bluntness and tone of the question. I answered that I was going...
by APFLI | Oct 1, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion, Natural Methods - Natural Family Planning, Possible Adverse Effects
“An ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of Cure.” This past May, Karen Malec succumbed to her last bout with cancer. She had survived colon cancer as a young mother but a particularly virulent form of ovarian cancer took her life despite a valiant...
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 | Jul 14, 2015 | Sterilization
We would like to point out that Essure may not be so “sure” after all—or so safe After receiving thousands of complaints of adverse side-effects, the FDA has decided to conduct a hearing on the safety and effectiveness of Essure. The controversial sterilization...
by APFLI | Jul 9, 2015 | Abortion - Archive, Birth Control Archive
Updated 7/9/2015 — I want everyone to share this please. My husband wanted me to share this story to possible save the next young girl that decides to get this nasty thing! On March 29,2015, 6 weeks after giving birth to my daughter, I was pushed into getting...
by APFLI | Jul 2, 2015 | Birth Control Archive
Parental Notification? What Difference Does It Make? Earlier this month, LifeNews.com reported on a high school in Seattle, Washington that is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control and doing so without parental...
by APFLI | Jul 1, 2015 | Natural Methods - Natural Family Planning
NFP Strengthened Our Marriage “Contraception had been distorting their view of each other.” Matt and Shannon met in college and quickly became serious. A non-practicing Catholic, Matt left the responsibility of managing their fertility to Shannon and the...
by APFLI | Jun 9, 2015 | Sterilization
On May 14th, Peru reopened the criminal case against Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president responsible for a mass sterilization campaign in the 1990s. Over the course of several years, the Peruvian Ministry of Health sterilized more than 300,000 indigenous...
by APFLI | Jun 2, 2015 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
Amidst an ongoing debate among prolife advocates about whether to classify the Pill as an abortifacient or a prophylactic, pro-abortion advocates have published an authoritative statement declaring that the Pill prevents implantation of embryos, thereby causing an...
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 | Jun 2, 2015 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
American Life League Leads International Effort to Show ‘The Pill Kills Truth’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Life League Leads International Effort to Show The Pill Kills Truth ALL and over 38 cosponsors will observe June 6 as The Pill Kills Truth...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Legal / Federal Action
The Obama administration has doubled down on its demand that insurance companies furnish women with all forms of contraception, including those that act as abortifacients, at no cost – cracking down on those who allegedly refuse to offer such drugs in their health...