by APFLI | Sep 9, 2006 | Artificial Conception
By Marie Anderson, M.D., FACOG and John Bruchalski, M.D. "Assisted reproductive technologies" (ART) broadly includes any therapy directed towards improving the chances of conception for an infertile couple. In 1978 one form of this technology made its debut...
by APFLI | Aug 24, 2005 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Dear Dr. Crawford: On behalf of the members of Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc., I am again writing to ask you to raise the bar for medical safety by refusing to release emergency contraception (EC) over-the-counter (OTC), for the following reasons. Sexual...
by APFLI | Sep 11, 2004 | Contraception - Chemical Methods / Hormonal Contraception / Emergency / Morning After Pill
Emergency Contraception Supporters want EC (MAP – Morning After Pill) to be freely available in all county health departments (to girls as young as 14, without parental knowledge) nationwide. They are also pressuring the FDA to release EC over-the-counter (OTC)....
by APFLI | Jul 26, 2004 | Artificial Conception
Higher precentages of tubal – ectopic – pregnancy among women undergoing in vitro fertilization using frozen embryos were reported at the 2003 conference of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. David Keefe et al, from Brown University in...
by APFLI | Jul 15, 2004 | Sterilization
Among 10,685 women studied, the risk of ectopic pregnancy within 10 years after sterilization was about 7 per 1,000 procedures. The likelihood of an ectopic pregnancy varied according to the method of sterilization and the age at which the women underwent the...
