Guttmacher Institute Updates Summary of US Abortion Laws
The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization started by Planned Parenthood, has updated its annual survey of abortion laws in the United States. You can view it here. I occasionally dispute the characterization of a law, but find it to be a good starting point for research.
The Medical Case Against Late Term Abortions
Public Discourse has a great article, Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act Will Harm Women, outlining the evidence that late-term abortions are never medically indicated. Quoting from Congressional testimony and reports of maternal-fetal specialists, the authors make a compelling case that women suffering from serious medical conditions during the last half of pregnancy are better served by induced […]
Teresa Collett’s comment on the Gosnell case
Here is a link to a very good op-ed by Teresa Collett. Teresa explains why Gosnell could not have been prosecuted in Minnesota. http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/207450371.html?page=1&c=y&refer=y Richard M.
Pro-life voting
I don’t think that I want to comment one way or the other on the question of whether those who regard abortion as a political issue of the greatest importance should vote for Mitt Romney, or more generally for Republicans, this fall (and in any case I definitely don’t want to do so right now). I […]
Highlighting a few recent items in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
The Spring 2012 NCBQ arrived in yesterday’s mail (many academic journals tend to run a few months behind), and I’d like to make brief mention of several things from the previous issue (Winter 2011) and the new one. In the Winter 2011 issue there is a review, by Germain Kopaczynski, OFM, of Joseph W. Dellapenna’s Dispelling the Myths […]
Teresa Collett defending Pain-Capable Child Protection Acts
Here is a good article on the Public Discourse website by Teresa Collett (president of University Faculty for Life) defending Pain-Capable Child Protection Acts. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/04/5176 Teresa explains: “These laws are premised on the idea that an unborn child’s capacity to feel pain, independent of fetal viability, is sufficient to establish the humanity of the child and […]
Pro-life legislation in the states
Courtesy of the National Right to Life News and Mary Spaulding Balch, here is an encouraging story describing recent pro-life legislation in the states. http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/03/a-snapshot-of-the-status-of-pro-life-legislation-in-the-states/ Richard M.
House hearing on CIANA
Here is a LifeNews story about today’s hearing on CIANA (the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act). http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/08/hearing-minor-girls-taken-to-other-states-for-secret-abortions/ Here is a link to commentary on CIANA from Bill Saunders and Mary Harned.http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/08/congress-must-pass-ciana-to-protect-minor-girls-from-abortion/ CIANA, according to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has introduced CIANA in each Congress since 2005, would make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state […]
AP story on impact of state restrictions on abortion
Here is a link to an AP story on the impact of state laws restricting abortions. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ABORTION_LAWS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT The article notes that state funding bans have had the greatest impact. Richard M.
Chuck Colson essay on sex-selection abortion
Here is a good essay by Chuck Colson on sex-selection abortion and the Prenatal Discrimination Act. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/23/sex-selection-abortion-in-the-u-s-the-myth-of-choice/ Richard M.