[This article is a Spanish translation of “Heidi Crowter and the Deathly Laws” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Caballero. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] Esta publicación fue escrita originalmente por Kristina Aruković. En este Día Mundial del Síndrome de Down, vamos a enfocarnos en una de las […]
Recently published research shows that anti-abortion laws that went into effect after Dobbs are preventing abortions, saving the lives of approximately 32,000 babies per year. (To understand how this squares with other research suggesting a rise in abortions, see this article.) The researchers reached this conclusion by examining birth rates in states with and without […]
I’ve seen quite a few people asking about the Kate Cox case. This tweet in particular caught my eye: Summary of Kate Cox case If you don’t already know, Kate Cox is a woman a little over 20 weeks pregnant with a little girl with Trisomy 18. Trisomy 18, also known as Edward’s Syndrome, is […]
Introducing the WeCount report. You may have recently seen headlines like these: These articles are based on the October 2023 WeCount report. WeCount describes themselves as a “national abortion reporting effort.” Their report focuses on the number of abortions in the United States in the 12 month period after Dobbs (July 2022 through June 2023), […]
Abortion proponents sometimes claim that a family grieving miscarriage did not lose an unborn child but only “a pregnancy” or a “clump of cells.” The clump of cells narrative is not only callous but also ignorant to centuries of scientific discoveries by embryological pioneers like Dr. John Burns (Burns’s Obstetrical Works, 1809), Dr. John B. […]
Photo Credit Hannah Busing on Unsplash Yesterday the National March For Life revealed their theme for the 2024 year: “With Every Woman, For Every Child.” This is a natural progression from their 2023 theme, “Next Steps: Marching Forward into a Post-Roe America.” With that came the effort to create and enforce federal policies to protect […]
Today’s post is an email sent to SPL from Kathleen Szekely, reprinted with permission. I just read your excellent piece on the Ohio/Washington DC miscarriage issue. This needs to be heard over and over, because not only does it expose a lie about healthcare law and state law, it exposes media bias and is an example […]
In late 2022, NPR published Her miscarriage left her bleeding profusely. An Ohio ER sent her home to wait. This is the story of Christina Zielke and her struggle to get appropriate miscarriage treatment while in Ohio. Abortion rights advocates are pointing to this story as evidence of the harm of abortion bans in general […]
The Blade has always supported women’s right to an abortion. This amendment to the state constitution goes too far and should be defeated. The Blade Editorial Board, Toledo Blade This poignant quote (emphasis added) ended a recent editorial, Issue One Overreach, from the Toledo Blade. While newspapers all over Ohio are covering the November ballot […]
Children with a prenatal diagnoses of disabilities are disproportionately killed by an abortion. When Kim C. and her husband Darrin became pregnant with a daughter with Down Syndrome, they initially faced a negative response from their doctor. As Kim explained, “When I got our diagnosis, I immediately felt unqualified and feared I would be a […]
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