More Ramesh with More Debunking

Ramesh Ponnuru of NRO takes Planned Parenthood’s AGI to task for some Data Failure on their newly published report.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, has done a lot of good and careful work over the years. The report it is releasing today is not among that work. The new report attempts [...]

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Your Unbiased Media at Work

Ramesh Ponnuru gives a devastating indictment of the media in his NRO article Partial Truth:
“I remember sitting in my office,” Kate Michelman recalled years later, “and James saying to me: “Kate. This is a disaster.”� Michelman was the head of NARAL, the abortion lobby, and its vice president, James Wagoner had just brought her a [...]

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Fetuses and Pain

A great little post over at The American Thinker: Fetuses and Pain. From the post:
The study of fetal and neonatal pain is an evolving discipline. In 1987 a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine, �Pain and its effects on the human neonate and fetus,� forever changed the perception that newborn [...]

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Chilling

Court Documents: Hospital Gave Lethal Injections to Patients During Hurricane Katrina
By John-Henry Westen
NEW ORLEANS, February 22, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans rumors circulated that at least one hospital had euthanized patients during the mayhem. LifeSiteNews.com reported in September 2005, that an unnamed doctor admitted to a UK newspaper that [...]

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SCOTUS to Hear Partial Birth Abortion Ban Appeal

Almost two years ago, the Bush’s federal law on partial birth abortion was declared unconstitutional. We learn today that, the newly-staffed SCOTUS will reconsider the case:
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in [...]

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Where’s the Baby? (Or How to Make an Entire Baby Disappear in the Space of a Sentence)

The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (those folks ECUSA’s Executive Council are ga-ga over) has a link on its home page titled “If you are pregnant.” Once you get to the page, the title becomes “Considering Abortion? Clarifying What You Believe“
Their opening paragraphs runs thusly (see if you can follow the disappearing baby):
There is [...]

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Pro-Choice Criticisms of Roe

Timothy P. Carney is compiling Pro-choice Criticisms of Roe.
Interesting.

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A Revealing Look at Abortion

I’m a little slow on catching up to current events, I realize, but in a late-November article in the L. A. Times, Stephanie Simon gives an incredibly revealing and insightful article on an abortion clinic in Arkansas: Offering Abortion, Rebirth (link requires free subscription). (See also Simon’s commentary giving a behind the scenes account of [...]

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The Contradictions Aren’t Addressed

Have you seen the New York magazine’s article, The New Underground Abortion Railroad: Destination NYC? It’s meant to be a fluffy, warm-the-cockles-of-yer-liberal-progressive-heart story, a sort of abortion advocate pat-self-on-back memo, about a group of abortion advocates who provide overnight housing for girls and women seeking late-term abortions. But the contradictions come through in [...]

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Study: Still a Statistically Significant Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer

In the Winter 2005 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons comes a controversial article: Induced Abortion as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: A Critical Review of Recent Studies Based on Prospective Data (pdf).
Here’s the abstract.
Although many case-control studies, based mostly on retrospective collection of data, have shown a statistically significant [...]

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