Author: Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.

Study Continues Push of Web-Cam Chemical Abortions, Safety Concerns Ignored

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., Director of Education & Research As I hope all the posts we’ve written for you make clear, the abortion industry/abortion advocates mean not only to keep abortion legal but expand its availability by replacing doctors and clinics with webcams and chemical abortifacients. In that light, consider “Safety of Medical Abortion …

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Noted abortion researcher admits pro-life laws stop abortions

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research For years, whenever pro-life legislation was discussed or passed, advocates of abortion told us it was a waste of time. They said that women would get abortions anyway, crossing state lines or taking matters into their own hands. Now a prominent abortion researcher and …

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Data Contradicts Safety Claims made for Chemical Abortion delivered by Webcam and by Mail

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Results from a trial in which chemical abortifacients were made available via webcam and delivered by mail have been published with the authors predictably claiming that the method is “safe, efficient, and satisfactory.” But a closer look at the study numbers reveals evidence of …

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Why the number of Emergency Room visits are a very misleading measure of the safety of chemical abortions

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research With chemical abortions [“medication” abortions, in pro-abortion parlance] continually on the rise, you would expect that pro-abortion advocacy groups would go out of their way to assure the public that these abortions are very safe. And you would be correct. To take just one …

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Washington Post Fact Checker Flags Planned Parenthood for Inflated Abortion Numbers

PPFA President Wen Earns Four Pinocchios for Claim of Thousands of Abortions a Year Pre-Roe and 5,000 deaths By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. An uncorrected version of this story first ran yesterday. My apologies. If it seems like only a couple of weeks ago we were talking …

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Washington Post Fact Checker Calls Out Congressman, New AMA Head Over Reliance on Erroneous Texas Abortion Data

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Perhaps no state is as big a source of frustration to the advocates of abortion as Texas. Second only to California in population, it was for years home to some of the nation’s busiest abortion clinics, performing some 100,000 abortions a year in the …

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Planned Parenthood Tries to Reshape Its Image… Again

But Abortion Still Central to America’s Largest Abortion Chain By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D, NRL Director of Education & Research NRLC provides a bumper sticker that reads, “When you think Planned Parenthood, think abortion.” Well, it must be working. Apparently, whatever people are thinking when they think of Planned Parenthood, it isn’t what Planned Parenthood …

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More Abortion, Less Health Care at Planned Parenthood

2nd most number of abortions ever performed By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Planned Parenthood has gone through some big changes this past year, but its latest annual report reaffirms that its commitment to abortion is as strong as ever. Powerful, politically connected Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has stepped …

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Guttmacher study on repeat abortions at odds with cherished pro-abortion arguments

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. There is always a lull—a gap —recently running three years between the year for which Guttmacher compiles abortion numbers and the actual publication date. For example, the study that appeared in 2017 dealt with abortion numbers for the year 2014. The following …

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The “other” abortion clinics that perform 2/3rds of all abortions

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. We’re re-running this post from last year to supplement a new post written today about “independent” abortion clinics. No doubt there have been some changes, beginning with abortion clinic closures, independent or PPFA-affiliated. But what Dr. O’Bannon’s spoke of in his October …

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CDC Report shows continued decline in the number of abortions

By Randall K O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) gave pro-lifers something to be very thankful for this Thanksgiving. Their latest surveillance reports that abortions, abortion rates, and abortion ratios all continued to fall for 2015, the latest year for which it has figures. …

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New Artificial Womb Technology unsettling to Abortion Advocates

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Over the last few months there’s been, if not a surge, at least an uptick in commentary over the possibility of an artificial womb. Dr. O’Bannon wrote about this previously and it seemed a good time to provide readers a second chance …

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