Does abortion cause women to be more likely to physically abuse their children? That’s how research by Bowling Green State University professor Priscilla Coleman is being portrayed by conservative news outlets like The Washington Times, but the claim largely falls apart on close examination.
Coleman studied 518 low-income women in Baltimore that included 118 abusive […]
The United States angered abortion supporters when it filed two amendments at a ten-year review of the 1995 Beijing declaration insisting that the declaration did not create a right to abortion.
The Beijing declaration is a 150-page statement calling for an improvement in the condition of women worldwide, in areas as diverse as education, health […]
The Kansas Supreme Court is currently weighing a controversial request by Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline who wants access to a number of medical records from abortion clinics in Kansas.
Kline wants the records of about 90 women who had abortions in Kansas. He is requesting records of young girls who had abortions and records […]
As I’ve said before the best hope for success that those opposed to abortion might have is to regulate abortion clinics to death. Numerous superfluous regulations of businesses have been upheld by courts, and pro-lifers could turn the tables on abortion rights advocates by hiding their anti-abortion views behind a patina of ridiculous regulation. […]
The 6th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees heard testimony in February about alleged forced abortions and infanticide in North Korean prison camps.
Using the alias Park Sun-ja, a 28-year-old defector from North Korea testified that she witnessed both infanticide and forced abortion at Shinuiju Provincial Detention Camp where she had been […]
I consider myself to be pretty much pro-abortion down the line, but there’s one thing I’ve never understood about the pro-choice movement — why does it feel necessary to kow-tow to China and ignore the horrors of that country’s one child policy?
For example, you were about as likely to hear Gloria Steinem endorse George […]
In July, Portugal put on trial three women accused of participating in an illegal abortion. Two of the women were charged with having an illegal abortion, while the third was a midwife charged with performing the abortion.
Portugal has strict laws that only allow abortions to be performed in the case of rape or serious […]
The New York Times created quite a controversy earlier this year when it published an account of one woman’s decision to have an abortion. The Times didn’t disclose that the woman in question was a prominent abortion rights activist and the reasons she gave for the abortion read like a right wing parody of […]
The United States this month announced it would withhold $34 million allocated to the United Nations Population Fund for the third year in a row.
Under the provisions that the UN Population Fund money is allocated, it cannot be given to the agency if the State Department determines that there is a direct link between […]
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair recently made comments that it might be time to look at further reducing the number of weeks at which abortion is allowed in the UK.
Compared to the United States, the UK has rather restrictive abortion laws. Abortion is only allowed until the 24th week unless there is evidence that […]