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Las leyes que regulan el aborto reducen internacionalmente las tasas de aborto, pero altas tasas de embarazo no deseado pueden ocultar este efecto.

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[This article is a Spanish translation of “Abortion laws decrease abortion rates internationally, but high unintended pregnancy rates can mask this effect” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Caballero. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] [Una versión de esta publicación está disponible en Twitter aquí .] En septiembre de 2020, […]

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Cinco años después, 96% de las mujeres a las que fue negado el aborto ya no querrían haberlo tenido. (Estudio del Rechazo)

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[This article is a Spanish translation of Five years later, 96% of women denied abortion no longer wish they could have had one. (Turnaway Study) courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] El Estudio del Rechazo tuvo una estadística muy promocionada acerca de cómo […]

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New peer-reviewed article: Fetal Pain in the First Trimester

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On December 6, 2021, The Linacre Quarterly published Dr. Bridget Thill’s dissertation “Fetal Pain in the First Trimester.” The article is written for a medical audience, with over 100 references to research in medical journals published from 1936 through 2021. If you can read the entire article, do, but for those who aren’t able to, […]

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Study: Women considering abortion who visit CPCs are more likely to continue their pregnancies

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In July of 2021, PLOS One published “Pregnancy outcomes after exposure to crisis pregnancy centers among an abortion-seeking sample recruited online.” As of the time of this article, the research is fully available without journal access, if you’d like to read it directly. Here are some notes: The authors have pro-choice affiliations but, in my […]

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How advances in perinatal palliative care show the value of preborn and newborn children

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A recent Canadian research article provides recommendations on medications for managing symptoms in seriously ill babies who are receiving palliative care outside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).1 Beyond providing technical guidance, this study casts light on the value of these tiny babies, their capacity for pain, and their essentially human need for connection and […]

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Abortion laws decrease abortion rates internationally, but high unintended pregnancy rates can mask this effect

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[Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] [A version of this post is available on Twitter here.] In September 2020, The Lancet published “Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990-2019.” The study discussed three factors: Higher UIP drives up abortion rates. Stricter abortion […]

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Study: Emergency room staff frequently miscode medication abortion visits as miscarriage visits

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Note: In this article the terms “chemical abortion” and “medication abortion” are interchangeable. This month (November 2021), Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology published “A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015.” The study’s researchers reviewed records of 423,000 abortions, noting whether they were chemical or surgical abortions. […]

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Poll: Majority of Texans, including 52% of women, support Texas heartbeat law

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Study: Women explain their abortions more in terms of religion and motherhood than autonomy.

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The pro-choice position has long focused on the role religious fervor plays in anti-abortion politics. Images of nuns marching with anti-abortion protestors are splashed across our front pages, and video clips of evangelical men with megaphones and Bibles protesting outside of clinics are ubiquitous online. It seems all but a forgone conclusion that an individual’s […]

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Iranian study examines relationship between maternal religious attitudes and PTSD after abortion or miscarriage

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