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 […]
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), […]
Photo Credit 愚木混株 cdd20 on Unsplash Have you ever heard people say that abortion pill reversal (APR) is unsafe, because they abandoned the only randomised controlled trial done on it over safety concerns? In this post, I illustrate just how dishonest this claim is. In short, the researchers abandoned the study because current treatment was […]
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 […]
by Pablo Mestrovic Photo Credit Anna Nekrashevich with Pexels Collecting accurate figures about the incidence of abortion is remarkably difficult. This is the case not only in countries where abortion is illegal, but also in those where the practice is legal but the healthcare system either can not or does not want to provide accurate […]
Dr. Diana Greene Foster (pictured), the lead researcher for the Turnaway Study, has bee selected to receive a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, along with a no-strings-attached $800,000 “Genius Grant” awarded to people who have “shown extraordinary creativity and dedication in their fields.” The Turnaway Study is a famous (or infamous) body of work comparing and contrasting […]
We all heard the sky-is-falling takes after Dobbs was announced: Pregnant people won’t be able to access life-saving care! Women will be dying in the streets! Doctors will be jailed for trying to save their patients! If you’re happy about the Supreme Court’s decision, you’re a monster! Inconveniently for the abortion industry narrative, the assumption […]
Today’s article is by pro-life atheist author Sarah Terzo. Read more by Sarah on her Substack. Photo Credit Danie Franco on Unsplash. In a 2021 book by Janet Morana, a rape victim describes the trauma she endured after her partial-birth abortion. Christina’s Story Christina from Alberta, Canada, was a substance abuser who was raped at seventeen. […]
[Photo Credit: Eric Ward on Unsplash] It is commonly claimed that legal access to abortion is necessary to preserve women’s physical and mental health, says Calum Miller in Chapter 15 of Agency, Pregnancy and Persons. Advocates of abortion claim that abortion is healthcare and that to prohibit it can cause the torture of a psychological […]
[This information is available in the form of a Twitter thread here.] Research finds that women seeking abortion believe providers should offer them the option to view the ultrasound. But providers don’t always do so, and abortion advocacy groups (Planned Parenthood Action, NARAL, ACOG) oppose measures requiring providers to do so. Please note I’m not […]
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