Why Plan B Should Never Be Plan A
The federal government recently decided not to take action against Shippensburg University for making Plan B (also known as The Morning After Pill) readily available on their campus. A year ago the Pennsylvania-based school made the drug available to anyone over the age of 17 via vending machines. A student must swipe an ID in order to buy the contraception. “The FDA looked at publicly available information about Shippensburg’s vending program and spoke with university and campus health officials and decided not to take any regulatory actions,” one FDA official said. Plan B, which is...
Read MoreA Reproductive Rights Victory In Texas
A 16-year-old Texas girl known to the world only as R.E.K. made news recently. A lawsuit filed on her behalf by The Texas Center for Defense of Life (TCDL.org) has successfully barred R.E.K.’s parents from pressuring the young woman into having an abortion. Attorneys representing the young woman sought and were granted an injunction against her parents, Jeffery and Denise Koen, which will last the entire pregnancy. Attorney for R.E.K. Stephen Casey commented that “no one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life – especially one that belongs to someone else – is...
Read MoreAbortion is Much More Dangerous than Childbirth, Major Danish Study Finds
Despite widespread claims by U.S. public health officials that abortion is safer than childbirth, a large study in Denmark has shown a staggeringly high risk of death among women within the first year after having first-trimester abortions. A Danish study of nearly half a million women has found that those who had first-trimester abortions had an 89 percent higher risk of death within the first year after the abortion, compared to women who did not have direct abortions. The study also found an 80 percent higher risk of death for these women over a ten-year period studied. “Compared to...
Read MoreMultiple Abortions Tied to Greater Risk for Future Deliveries, New Study Shows
Preterm deliveries are often fraught with anxiety and concern — not what a woman needs when her hopes are high for a healthy and safe delivery. But many women who have had a past abortion may not realize that they could be at higher risk for this scenario. A new study in Finland shows that women who have had three or more abortions have an increased risk of preterm delivery or low birthweight babies in future pregnancies. The study, one of the largest involving induced abortion and subsequent births, was reported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published Aug. 29, 2012 by...
Read MoreNuvaRing Contraceptive Dangers Finding their Way into Court
Thousands of women claim they have been injured by the NuvaRing contraceptive, and many of the complaints are winding up as lawsuits filed in a federal multi-district litigation court.
Read MoreSouth Dakota Law on Abortion and Suicide Advisory Upheld by Federal Court
In a 7-4 ruling on July 24, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a South Dakota law requiring abortion doctors to tell patients that women who undergo an abortion run a higher than normal risk of suicide. In a 27-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond W. Gruender wrote for the majority, saying that there was “extensive evidence in the record” of increased risk for suicide among women who undergo an abortion. The South Dakota law was passed in 2005 and was fully in effect until September 2011 when the provision requiring the suicide advisory was struck down by a three-judge appellate...
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