Category: Abortion Risks

Meta-analysis Confirms Abortion’s Connection to Subsequent Preterm Deliveries

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research This analysis appears in the current digital edition of National Right to Life News. Along with all other columns, news stories, and commentaries, Dr. O’Bannon’s story can be read at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsMay2016.pdf. Please forward this story and the link to the entire issue to your …

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“Hush” documentary seeks to unseal lips so that an honest conversation can be held about abortion and breast cancer connection

By Dave Andrusko It’ll be a while before I have a chance to see it, but “Hush” is already beginning to create some buzz about the much under-publicized, unfairly ridiculed conclusion that having an induced abortion not only increases a woman’s risk for having breast cancer but also has other negative aftermath. The feature documentary …

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Trial of three medics charged in abortion death of Irish woman to begin March 7

By Dave Andrusko After a brief hearing last Friday, Judge Rebecca Poulet of the Central Criminal Court in London determined that the trial of three medics accused of manslaughter by gross negligence in the death of an Irish woman will begin March 7, 2016. Aisha Chithira died hours after having an abortion at a Marie …

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Teenager in India dies after being forced to take abortion pill

By Dave Andrusko The Times of India is reporting that a teenage girl died after being forced to consume an abortifacient by a man who had allegedly sexually exploited her “several times.” Reporting from Kanpur, Faiz Rahman Siddiqui wrote that police identified the man as Monu, a local resident. According to the story, Monu has …

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Pro-abortionists use junk science to attempt to disprove Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome

  By Dave Andrusko What is the three-legged stool on which abortionists and their apologists rest their case? That abortion is free of complications—emotional and physical; any research that demonstrates otherwise is, by definition, “junk science.” That abortion is not only free of aftershocks, it is for many women a rite of passage on their …

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More evidence of abortion pill’s danger

  By Jenifer Bowen, Executive Director, Iowa Right to Life Editor’s note. The following is a letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register. The Register’s editorial board has written a tone-deaf defense of Jennifer Whalen, a mother who ordered chemical abortifacients over the Internet for her then 16-year-old daughter. It’s amazing the Register’s …

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Impact of abortion on women, relationships underpublicized

  Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a release distributed by the by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Ottawa, Canada, May 12, 2014 – A new report by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada highlights “typically ignored” research showing that abortion has negative effects on women and their families. Interconnected: How …

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Italian Woman Dies of Heart Attack after Taking Abortion Drugs

  By Randall K. O’Bannon, PhD. NRL Director of Education and Research You probably didn’t see anything about in your newspaper or on any of the news networks, but another woman, this time in Italy, has died after taking RU­ 486, a two-drug regimen–mifepristone which kills the baby, coupled with a prostaglandin, which induces labor. …

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MCCL GO defends life at the United Nations; executive director addresses assembly

  Editor’s note. The following was released Friday. NEW YORK, N.Y. — The 47th session of the Commission on Population and Development took place this week at the United Nations. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach (MCCL GO), a U.N.-accredited non-governmental organization, encouraged delegates to prioritize the improvement of maternal health care rather than …

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World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges that legalizing abortion does not make it safe

  Editor’s note. The following was distributed today by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach (MCCL GO). Abortion advocates have long advanced their opinion that all legal abortions are safe, and all illegal abortions are unsafe. But this has never been true. An editorial in the latest Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) …

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Post abortion depression and suicide

  By Pat Buckley, European Life Network During the recent parliamentary debate in Ireland that led to the introduction of abortion–and despite scholarly research based evidence to the contrary– the Irish Government decided that suicide ideation was grounds for abortion. Expert psychiatric witnesses explained that in many years of professional practice they had never found …

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Pro-choice substance abuse counselor admits that men and women suffer from abortion

  By Sarah Terzo Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood insist that abortion does not cause depression, substance abuse, or any kind of mental health trauma. On the Planned Parenthood website, it says the following: “Research studies indicate that emotional responses to legally induced abortion are largely positive…. Anti-family planning activists, however, circulate unfounded claims that …

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