Abortions in Medical News

Pro-Life Chair to Congress: 'We Can't Reduce Abortions By Promoting Abortion'

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Writing to all members of Congress on September 19, Cardinal Justin Rigali warned against enactment of the proposed "Freedom of Choice Act" or "FOCA" (S. 1173, H.R. 1964). "Despite its deceptive title," he wrote, "FOCA would deprive the America...

Teen Pregnancies, Abortions Drop From 1990 to 2004: CDC

But more recent federal statistics saw uptick in teen pregnancies in 2006 MONDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Teen pregnancy rates in the United States declined from 1990 to 2004, as did the number of abortions, while the number of pregnancies among unmarried women increased slightly ...

Blunt: House Republicans Fight to Ensure Taxpayer Resources Aren't Used to Fund Abortions Overseas

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today in support of efforts by Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) and others to make sure taxpayer money being used t...

Investigation Shows Threats, Restrictions Impose Severe Obstacles for Abortion Providers, Women Seeking Abortions

Center for Reproductive Rights Urges Governments, Public, Medical Community to Support Abortion Providers as Human Rights Defenders NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Aggressive harassment, discriminatory legal restrictions and serious stigma are reducing the number of ...

Investigation to Show Harassment, Legal Restrictions Impose Severe Obstacles for Abortion Providers and Women Seeking Abortions

NEW YORK, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Next week, the Center for Reproductive Rights will release the results of an investigation of abortion clinics in six states demonstrating that attacks, harassment, discriminatory legal restrictions and stigma are causing a shortage of ab...

FRC Commends Effort to Protect Pro-Life Riders, Prevent Taxpayer Funded Abortions

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council commends the over 180 Members of Congress who signed a letter directed to the White House urging support for long-standing pro-life policies in upcoming appropriations bills. These riders prohibit tax dollars for domestic and...

FRC Condemns President Obama's $441 Million Bailout of International Abortions

FRC President Tony Perkins asks, "How many more broken promises lie ahead?" WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the day after millions of Americans solemnly marked the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that has led to the loss of an estimated ...

Medically Induced Abortions (MIAs) Causes More Deaths Due To Infection

In many parts of the world, the moral and legal aspects of abortion have become the subject of intense debate. Various methods of inducing //abortions have been used throughout history and Since 2000, medically induced abortions (MIAs) death toll have crossed five in North America, who died from t...

Over Five Million Illegal Abortions In India Every Year

India records a whopping 5.7 million illegal abortions every year and over 80 percent of pregnant women do not get hygienic antenatal care, say experts//. "Every year 6.7 million abortions take place in India but the sad part is that 5.7 millions are illegal. The place and technique used in most...

Delhi Accounts for 23,000 Female Fetus Abortions Last Year

Around 23,000 female foetuses were aborted in the capital last year with, experts said Wednesday. // "Whereas Denmark had 23,000 births in 2005, the same number of female foetuses were aborted in Delhi alone," said Puneet Bedi, a leading medicine expert, quoting records of the Delhi governmen...

Pilot Study Proves Home Abortions ‘Safe’

Women, did you know this- All marks to the efforts of a pilot study, which measured the efficacy of medical abortions within the precincts // of one’s home or a General Practitioner’s clinic. The study has portrayed successful results, according to report announcements. The Department of Heal...

Botched Abortions Trigger Concern Over Legal Ambiguity In Britain

In a shocking revelation, a recent survey by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) indicates that there are at least 50 cases // a year nationwide in which babies survive abortion attempts. The systematic investigation by CEMACH, which monitors pregnancy deaths on b...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

The Brazilian government has announced a 90 percent reduction in the price of contraceptives in a bid to stop clandestine abortions and the rising number of deaths caused by them. The discounted birth control pills will be sold at 3,500 "people's pharmacies," where the government offers s...

Quack Couples Arrested for Conducting Illegal Abortions

Police here Wednesday arrested a fake doctor and his wife for allegedly conducting large-scale illegal abortions at their hospital in a town near here//. Pritam Singh Amarjit Kaur had been carrying out the operations at the Sahib Hospital at Patran town for couples wanting to get rid of female...

'Health Care Reform Must be Abortion-Free,' says Supreme Knight

...hts of Columbus told delegates that the inclusion of an abortion mandate and other provisions that would require all health insurance plans to pay for abortions runs contrary to public opinion, which has moved decisively in the opposite direction. Anderson cited the results of a Knights of Columbus/Mari...

CCHRINT Announces FDA Reported Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine

...ychiatric drug adverse reaction reports which included 2,442 babies born with heart disease, 3,372 other birth defects, as well as 1,072 miscarriages, abortions and other deaths. The database also reveals that, between 2004-2008 there were reports submitted to MedWatch including 4,895 suicides, 3,908...

FRC Action's Tony Perkins Challenges Planned Parenthood President to Debate

...nt Cecile Richards to debate the question -- Does the President's health care reform plan include a mandate for abortion coverage and taxpayer funded abortions ? In a piece published today by the Huffington Post, Planned Parenthood's president states that the plan doesn't mandate abortion coverage ...

Operation Rescue Announces 'Keep It Closed' Campaign

...ansas or his home state of Nebraska. According to recent polls, such abortions are opposed by 93% of the American people. Last month, the three pro... indicate that Carhart has falsified entries on patient charts, interrupted abortions due to fatigue or exhaustion, engaged in personal phone conversations in th...

Health Care Statement of Catholic Charities USA

...unequivocally that it does not support any plan to reform health care and/or any proposed legislative provision that allows or promotes the funding of abortions or that compels any health care provider or institution to provide such a service. In fact, Catholic Charities USA will continue to work with the Cath...

FRC: The Truth Hurts Planned Parenthood and NARAL

...hat Americans' tax dollars are not used to pay for abortions within the health care overhaul. Perkins also res...all along expected to see mandated taxpayer funded abortions within President Obama's health care plan, as the ...at would ensure taxpayers aren't forced to pay for abortions within any publicly subsidized program, pro-aborti...

FRC Deplores House Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood

... organization, and made over $1 billion last year and performs over 300,000 abortions per year. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080930/FRC...licit in statutory rape cases, mishandled funds, and accepted donations for abortions with offensive racial overtones. Federal funding of such a scandalized orga...

Obama Puts Politics Before Principle in Abortion Coverage, Says Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice President

...fits are covered." He also said, "As you know, I'm pro-choice. But I think we also have the tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government-funded health care." It was our hope that President Obama would change this attitude and consider abortion as a health care issu...

Congress Moves Forward With Tax-Funded Abortion Plans

...prevented taxpayers from being forced to subsidize abortions within the Democrats' massive health care reform b...cently stated that if abortion is taxpayer funded, abortions would rise by at least 30 percent." "We a...so mothers and their unborn children. Subsidizing abortions does nothing to increase the lack of access women ...

FRC Says Planned Parenthood, Desperate to Hide Agenda, Attacks Hatch and Hides Intent

...h queried Sen. Barbara Mikulski on a cleverly worded amendment she added to the bill to ensure that Planned Parenthood's clinics, 295 of which perform abortions and all of which actively promote and refer for them (see http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/abortion-services-abortion-referrals-25993.h...

Changes Reduced Infections From Medical Abortion

...renthood health clinics generally provided medical abortions with a combination of mifepristone, given orally, ...wn that the combination was successful in inducing abortions in 98.5 percent of cases. But in 2005, authori...iewed the rate of serious infections after medical abortions in more than 227,000 women, comparing the risk in ...

Americans United for Life Applauds Fourth Circuit Protecting Women and Children by Upholding Virginia Partial Birth Abortion Statute

...al Affairs added: "A wealth of medical evidence demonstrates that late-term abortions -- and particularly partial-birth abortions -- can have devastating health effects, including uterine puncture or ruptu...

A.L.L. Promises Caritas Christi Investigation After July 1

...ed a new campaign to investigate whether young mothers will be referred for abortions by Caritas Christi, the Boston Archdiocese-affiliated healthcare provider, ...he United States. Such practices include covering up child rape, committing abortions on minors without the required parental consent or notification and intenti...

Off-label morning sickness drug deemed safe for fetuses -- Ben-Gurion U. researchers

...among this group was not associated with significantly increased risks of major congenital malformations. The results were unchanged when therapeutic abortions of exposed fetuses were included in the analysis. In addition, infants exposed in utero had no increased risk of perinatal mortality, low birth weigh...

Clock Ticking In Boston Archdiocese Abortion Scandal

...ie Walker at 540.659.4942. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Catholic News Agency: Archdiocese reviewing Catholic network's alleged role in providing abortions (09 June 2009) http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16232 Catholic Culture: Boston Catholic Health Care Agency in Partnership Pr...

Religious devotion does not impact abortion decisions of young unwed women

... or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to sociological research pu...older," Adamczyk said. Despite Adamczyk's finding that rates of reported abortions were higher for young women educated at private religious schools, the type...

Center for Reproductive Rights Deeply Saddened by Murder of Dr. George Tiller

... of the few physicians in the country who provides abortions later in pregnancy, Dr. Tiller has been the target...f women's fundamental health and rights, providing abortions despite decades of relentless and vicious attacks ... Dr. Tiller, like other physicians who provide abortions in the U.S., is forced to work under circumstances...

Americans United for Life: Obama Nominates Avowed Judicial Activist Judge Who Undermines Common Ground

...rents want parental involvement laws to protect their daughters from having abortions without their knowledge or consent. They want prohibitions on late-term abortions and the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortion-on-demand. And women have...

Cardinal George Praises President Obama's Promise to Support Conscience Clauses, Seeks to Work With Administration on Goal

...vernment that wants to reduce the tragic number of abortions in our society will also work to ensure that no on...hether through directly providing or referring for abortions or being forced to subsidize them with their tax d...vernment that wants to reduce the tragic number of abortions in our society will also work to ensure that no on...

Americans United for Life Memo Urges Senators to Consider New Abortion Polling Data Showing Majorities of all Parties Oppose Judicial Activism, Support Abortion Regulations

...ns already in place, and in objecting to late-term abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions. This consensus was... parental consent laws, and objecting to late-term abortions and taxpayer-funded abortions in the U.S. and overseas. Further, this consensus...

ALL: Boston Archdiocese Reportedly on Track for Abortion Referring Venture

... WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Catholic hospitals in the Archdiocese of Boston may soon refer women for abortions in a joint medical venture between Centene Corp. and archdiocese-run Caritas Christi Health Care. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/200...

U.S. Increases Funding for Kenya's Family Planning and Reproductive Health Activities

...to choose the number and spacing of births help reduce maternal and child mortality help reduce the transmission of HIV reduce abortions improve women's opportunities enable families to invest in their children and improve their well-being, and mitigate the impac...

JNCI April 28 tip sheet

...g , 617 732 8148 Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Do Not Opt for abortions More Frequently Than Their Healthy Sisters Adult female survivors of childhood cancer do not opt for abortions more frequently than their sisters, according to data from a large Danish c...

Senator Specter: Switching Parties or Coming Home?

... Specter voted for taxpayer funding of destructive embryonic stem cell experimentation, for taxpayer funding of organizations that promote and perform abortions (including coercive abortions), for partial-birth abortion, for federalizing 'hate crimes' and for cloning. "During this same time Senator Specte...

Cardinal Rigali Praises House Re-Introduction of 'Pregnant Women Support Act,' Urges Co-Sponsorship

...e regardless of their position on other issues." "There are some statements that almost everyone can endorse. First, the fact that over a million abortions take place every year in this country is a tragedy, and we should at least take steps to reduce abortions," said Cardinal Rigali. "Second, no wom...

Sebelius Places Interests of Late-Term Abortionists Ahead of Unborn Children

...ed the following statement after Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a pro-life bill that increases reporting requirements for doctors who perform late-term abortions and allows lawsuits against them if a patient later comes to believe such a procedure was illegal. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh...