Director Resigns, Says Planned Parenthood Focus is Abortions

The director of a Texas-based Planned Parenthood resigned her position, saying she had a change of heart on abortion, according to a report at LifeNews.com. The development highlights the powerful results ultrasounds have in convincing people of the humanity of the unborn...

The deadly new stats on abortion bans

"According to a major just-released report (PDF) from the Guttmacher Institute, increased use of contraception has helped decrease unintended pregnancy worldwide. Abortions, ergo, are down as well, from an estimated 45.5 million procedures in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003. In...

New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online

And we have yet another example of obstructionist legality on abortion which is, I have little doubt, introduced to prevent women accessing abortions, and to make abortions more difficult to practitioners to perform. "A new Oklahoma law will require the details of every...

Anti-abortion group wants to make birth-control illegal...

... in Florida (that didn't fit above in the title). "A nationwide anti-abortion group launched an effort in Florida Friday to outlaw all abortions and certain types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and the morning-after pill. The religion-infused movement,...

78% think abortion should be legal

"You may remember that back in May, Gallup released a poll showing that for the first time, a majority of Americans in their survey described themselves as "pro-life" rather than "pro-choice." The results represented a fairly dramatic flip in abortion numbers--51 to 42, when...

Sometimes abortion is the better choice

"Almost all of us probably agree that women should not be forced to have children or forced to have abortions, whether the goal is meeting military quotas or saving the planet or obeying someone else's moral code. It tramples human rights. But should we be applying any...

Limits imposed on access to abortion in Arizona and Illinois

"On Monday Arizona's new Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a group of anti-choice bills. This includes a 24-hour waiting period, meaning women must consult with their doctor, who has to tell them about "risks and alternatives, and the fetus' probable...

13 million abortions every year in China

Any news from china always attracts attention because of one important reason and that is the size, number or quantity. Even in this case, where a report figures out the situation of abortion in china, it is the number  that matters most.According to reports nearly 1.3...

George Bush's sex education failure

""The data presented in this report indicate that many young persons in the United States engage in sexual risk behaviour and experience negative reproductive health outcomes." That is the very clinical and polite way a new Centre for Disease Control and Prevention report...