Category: Abortion

By Sarah Terzo The parent of a child who was born with a club foot and is now a surgeon wrote a letter to the editor of the Times of London to express their shock at laws in England allowing abortion up to birth for the condition: “We were surprised to see that club foot …

By Sarah Terzo Pro-choice author Carole Joffe on how abortion providers and patients describe the unborn baby: Counselors and clinicians tend to use the terms “pregnancy” and “fetus”; in contrast, many patients use the term baby, which makes some providers uncomfortable. Similarly, how should providers respond to the occasional patient who asks to see her …

The increase in ambulance call-outs is evidence of the serious safety issues By Right to Life UK Ambulance chiefs in England have reported a surge in 999 emergency calls from women performing ‘DIY’ at-home abortions. Following a Freedom of Information request by the Mail on Sunday, three ambulance services in England have revealed a sizeable …

Editor’s note. Ordinarily our daily repost of a story that appeared previously in NRL News Today is from one year ago. This story is from two years ago but is very much reposting. A  hearing was held on Capitol Hill on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The hearing was held by Republican Whip Steve …

By Sarah Terzo Feminist Germaine Greer says the following about abortion: “A ten-week foetus is not pink jelly, but only the woman who loses her baby spontaneously is likely to know how human the tiny creature was and to grieve for it for the rest of her life. Women presenting for abortion…are shielded from grief…and …

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D, NRLC Director of Education & Research Any lay person looking at recent headlines could be forgiven if they thought that new objective scientific studies had recently determined that chemical abortions, even with drugs obtained by telemedicine rather than distributed in person, are absolutely safe and effective. However, those who know …

By Sarah Terzo “When you do a D & C most of the tissue is removed by the Olden forceps or ring clamp and you actually get gross parts of the fetus out. So you can see a miniature person so to speak, and even now I occasionally feel a little peculiar about it because …

By Dave Andrusko It’s at moments like the last two days that the chasm between pro-lifers and pro-abortionists is most vividly revealed. I am not talking about the over-the-top reaction to the Supreme Court’s rejection of the pro-abortionists’ request to stop the Texas Heartbeat Act in its track. What else would you expect? Any chink …

By Sarah Terzo  Layla was 15 years old when her parents forced her into an abortion. Her mother was physically and emotionally abusive, and her father ignored the abuse, failing to defend his daughter. When she learned she was pregnant, Layla and her boyfriend wanted to keep their baby, but her parents pushed her to abort. “I …

When you’re pregnant and you have a baby, you yearn to hold them, to feed them, to nurse them, to put them to sleep. In my situation, there was nobody to hold. [Breaks down in tears.] My arms physically ached… I yearned to just hold and cuddle this baby.

By Sarah Terzo The late abortionist Jane Hodgson once said “Abortion is nothing but a tragedy for the women who go through it.” Nevertheless, Hodgson did illegal abortions, then went on to do them when they became legal. From William Dudley,  Issues on Trial: Reproductive Rights (New York: Thomson, Gale, 2006). Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic …