Yet again, abortion pills are key to keeping the abortion industry running. By Calvin Freiburger Abortion complications have tripled in Pennsylvania over the past five years, according to state health data that also shows 2022 saw the highest number of abortions in the Keystone State in a decade. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Family Institute published … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Sarah Varney rolled out a fascinating (if overtly pro-abortion) summary of the level of training in abortion provided by medical schools and residency programs. Here’s the headline: Fewer medical students trained for abortion procedures The number of med schools and residency programs where aspiring physicians can learn to perform abortion procedures continues … Read more
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By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Whenever the abortion industry publishes yet another study claiming that chemical abortions or, in particular, those at-home, “self-managed,” Do-It-Yourself (DIY) “medical” abortions are absolutely safe, National Right to Life has repeatedly and insistently pointed out that these studies are incredibly flawed. They are based … Read more
There are two basic sources on abortion incidence in the United States: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishes yearly, but relies on voluntary reports from state health departments (and New York City, Washington, DC) It has been missing data from California, New Hampshire, and at least one other state since 1998. The Guttmacher … Read more
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 … Read more
Technology and Support for Pregnant Women Help Abortion Totals Tumble to the lowest number ever recorded HARRISBURG, Pa. – The number of abortions in Pennsylvania declined in 2015 to a record low—a welcome development for women and children in the Keystone State, according to the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research On the eve of Thanksgiving, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its latest abortion surveillance report, with figures from 2013. Abortion numbers, rates, and ratios all dropped by about 5%, leading to numbers not seen since Roe v. Wade took away legal … Read more
Study included abortion in nation’s mortality statistics By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers … Read more