Category: Sanctity of Life

Presidential hopefuls answered questions from the New York Times outlining their support for nearly unlimited abortion rights.

Planned Parenthood will launch an ad campaign costing more than $1 million to pressure three vulnerable Republican senators for condoning the Trump administration’s rule limiting abortion referrals.

Lawmakers in Slovakia have rejected a proposed bill that would have made it obligatory for women seeking abortions to first have an ultrasound and obtain the consent of the father before having the procedure.

Studies suggest a significant proportion of Indian-origin families in Canada are practising female feticide, sex-selective abortion. A disproportionately higher number of male children were born to mothers of Indian origin in Canada, according to research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. This imbalance was starker for couples who already had two daughters.

The findings stirred much debate and discussion in the Canadian media.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released abortion data for 2016, indicating that the U.S. abortion rate has continued to decline, a trend that began in 1980. Between 2015 and 2016, both the number of abortions and the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 U.S. women of childbearing age) decreased by about 2 percent. The decline was fairly consistent, as 33 of the 46 states that reported abortion data saw their numbers decline. This is good news for pro-lifers, and for anyone who wants to see the incidence of abortion decrease.

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Becky Visosky, executive director of Dallas’ Catholic Pro-Life Community, points to the 2003 death of Holly Patterson in California as a concern for allowing the use of abortion medications. Patterson died at 18 after taking mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486.
“This is a very significant pharmaceutical,” she said. “We have concerns about it being taken in any environment, but then add on to that removing a woman into her own home, not being in the care of a doctor.”