June 7, 1965, was an important day in American history. On that day, the U.S. Supreme Court found a "right to privacy" in the Constitution in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which allowed Planned Parenthood operator Estelle Griswold to...
It's happened again, a chemical abortifacient dropped into a young girl's drink. In this case, the abortifacient was one designed for animals. Police in Blair County, Pennsylvania are still looking for the culprit and are treating the case as an...
In this brief story in The Hindu, an Indian news service, Dr. Hema Divakar, Chairperson of the Federation of Obsteric and Gynecological Societies in India, decries the number of women who die each year because of legal but unsafe abortions....
In the wake of Connecticut's tyrannical law that requires even Catholic hospitals to provide "emergency contraception" (i.e. abortifacient drugs) to rape victims, Rev. Deacon Tom Davis argues that pro-life advocates in other states should begin preparing even now for the...
The stories of each of the women named in that montage on YouTube come from court documents, medical journal articles, autopsy reports, news stories, and online sources. The dates range from the 19th century to the 21st century. The...
...Plan B As "Loss Leader" for Planned Parenthood and The Rich Get Richer (But It Ain't Who You Think) Point One: Check back here on this blog in oh, about, August 2027, when there will have been enough longitudinal evidence...
Last week, the US Senate unanimously approved SC Republican Jim DeMint's amendment to the FDA reauthorization bill stating the agency must have risk assessment and solution strategies in place with the manufacturer of RU-486 within seven months after the...
By Jim Sedlak January 5, 2007 It is a very simple concept. It is logical. With everything we now know, given the advances in technology, it is the only position that makes sense: The terms `human person' and `human...
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- The No Room for Contraception campaign issued the following statement regarding today’s Plan B decision by the FDA. Ruben Obregon, President of the campaign, said “This scheme is irresponsible at best – as...
The FDA’s decision to allow the morning-after pill to be sold over-the-counter to people ages 18 and up could have devastating effects on women’s health and cause an increase in STD rates, according to Care Net, a network of 975...
Kimberly Zenarolla, executive vice president of the National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC)—the uncompromising voice of pro-life America on Capitol Hill—has issued the following statement regarding today’s decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow over-the-counter (OTC) sales of...
Wisconsin Right to Life is deeply concerned that over the counter sales of Plan B without any physician oversight will put women's lives and health in jeopardy. According to Wisconsin Right to Life Executive Director Barbara Lyons, "The drug is...
August 24, 2006- Thursday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2006 CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Bethanie Swendsen, (866) FRC-NEWS Washington, D.C. - Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Barr Laboratory's application for over-the-counter status of the drug Plan B...
The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, issued the following response to today’s announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it has approved the over-the-counter sale of Plan B, so-called emergency contraception, to anyone 18...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- The nation's largest faith- based association of doctors today issued a statement opposing the FDA's decision to allow "emergency contraception" to be purchased without a physician's prescription and oversight, with the intended exception of...
Washington, D.C. - Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Barr Laboratory's application for over-the-counter status of the drug Plan B for women over the age of 18. Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement:...
Concerned Women for America (CWA) strongly opposes today’s decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve Plan B, the morning-after pill, as a non-prescription drug. This decision allows anyone over 18 to purchase the drug without a prescription,...
True to their absolutely wicked agenda of child killing at all costs, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood had their “KILL PILL THRILL DAY” Plan B give-away all over Colorado June 30, 2006....
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to provide adequate explanations for...
By Bill Beckman Promoters of the right to "reproductive health care" (a code phrase that includes abortion) are identified as the protectors of women’s health. The Pro-Life community’s rejection of abortion, opposition to abortifacient contraceptives, concern that "safe sex" is...
Last week Judicial Watch issued its stunning report on President Bill Clinton’s promotion of RU-486. The packet includes an unbelievable letter written to Clinton by Ron Weddington, the co-counsel in Roe v. Wade (note: this is reported on by Lifenews)...
During meetings about the safety of the RU-486 abortion drug, Centers for Disease Control officials revealed a seventh woman has died from a drug-based abortion. Stunning to be sure. LifeNews has the story. Monty Patterson, one of the fathers of...
By Dave Andrusko Today's News and Views, National Right to Life "Worried about a bacterial infection that led to the deaths of at least five [actually at least six] women who took the abortion pill RU-486, scientists from the nation's...
National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC) renewed its plea to remove RU-486 (also know as Mifeprex and Mifepristone) from the market in response to news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a high-profile meeting today about deadly side-effects...
By Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D. National Right to Life director of Education & Research There are some who have been suggesting that people look at the vaginal self-administration of the prostaglandin, the second drug in the process, as the most...
The abortion pill known as RU-486 will be in the spotlight on today as U.S. health officials meet to discuss an outbreak of rare bacterial infections across the country, including a handful of cases in women who took the pill....
Ann Scheidler hits the nail on the head in her statement regarding the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' plan to push the morning after pill:"The ACOG 'Ask Me' campaign is aimed at pressuring the FDA to approve of Plan...
American Life League has announced that tomorrow, May 11, their Rock for Life group will hold an informative demonstration outside of the Centers for Disease Control Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia beginning at 7:30 a.m. The CDC is hosting a...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has announced a new program to promote the use of the so-called "morning after" early abortion pill even as pro-lifers protest the abortion group during their annual convention being held in Washington,...
Three days after being sworn into office, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA to take steps to promote the testing, licensing, and manufacturing of the RU-486 abortion pill....
The Food and Drug Administration has announced its agenda for a meeting that will examine the deadly infections that have occurred in women who took the abortion drug, RU-486. The Wall Stree Journal reports:The meeting, to be held jointly with...
From Reuters:One of two recent deaths of women taking the abortion pill RU-486 was unrelated to an abortion or use of the drug, but the second case is still under investigation, U.S. regulators said on Monday....
It's nice to see that Planned Parenthood has finally decided to stop telling women to take the second drug of the RU-486 cocktail vaginally instead of orally. All it took was for a couple more women to die and their...
We know what it does to the unborn - RU-486 also kills women: The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug has killed two more women. That brings the total number of women who...
By Judie Brown Women are told that reproductive health services are designed to better their lives. They are also told that anti-abortion zealots are infringing upon these services. You've probably heard the cries emanating from the pro-abortion crowd. They go...
While lawmakers in the Australian parliament debated her bill that has paved the way for legalizing the RU 486 abortion drug, MP Lyn Allison shrugged off concerns that the pills are dangerous and worries about more women dying. Now she...
Massachusetts state pharmacy board ordered Wal-Mart yesterday to stock emergency-contraception pills at its stores in Massachusetts. This is the story about how abortion rights extremists used the government to force a corporate retail giant to stock an abortifacient. Related:Emergency contraception's...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — "So-called emergency contraception is a risky drug regimen that can take the life of a newly formed human person," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "The decision in Massachusetts forcing pharmacies to sell this potentially...
By Dawn Eden When a New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris says that abortion drug "Mifeprex or RU-486, is so controversial that some officials have been threatened after speaking about it publicly," shouldn't he say why the officials were threatened?...
I thought this story was absurd and another example of how pro-abortion extremists use the courts to force a death oriented social agenda. MASSACHUSETTS, United States, February 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three women who are suing Wal-Mart after being denied...
Absurd:BOSTON - Backed by abortion rights groups, three Massachusetts women sued Wal-Mart on Wednesday, accusing the retail giant of violating a state regulation by failing to stock emergency contraception pills in its pharmacies.I don’t doubt that Walmart’s decision to not...
What comes to your mind when you hear the words “pro-life?” Maybe you think of sidewalk counselors outside an office of Planned Parenthood, or perhaps even the workers at a pregnancy care center, and these images would certainly be...
Crossposted from Stop The ACLU WND The Supreme Court of Hawaii has ruled that unborn children are not "human beings," and therefore women cannot be prosecuted for causing the death of babies by harmful behavior during their pregancies. The unanimous...
Dawn Eden comes out of hibernation to refute Planned Parenthood's "outrageous disdain for women's health" in Women's Abortion Deaths Only 'a Local Issue,' Says Planned Parenthood. (HT: RealChoice)...
LifeSiteNews author Hilary White calls attention to the FDA's investigation of RU-486, a pill used to chemically induce abortion. NEW YORK, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The New York Times reports today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
The family of a woman who died after taking the abortion pill says the firm didn't give patients sufficient warning of possible risks. From the Los Angeles Times: The family of an Orange County woman who died after taking RU-486...
On September 21st, amid severe criticism, Italy’s health minister Francesco Storace halted experiments surrounding the abortion pill RU-486 citing health and legal reasons. - LifeSiteNews...
US federal regulators are seeking public comment on whether the "morning-after" pill should be made available without prescription. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is weighing a request to make the "Plan B" pill available over the counter only to...
Pia de Solenni cuts through the fog created by Susan Wood to give the basic facts about the "morning after" pill -- facts deliberately hidden by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the rest of the usual suspects...including aforesaid Ms. Wood. This...
Yesterday's Miami Herald included a scorching editorial against the FDA's decision to delay approval of the morning-after pill for over-the-counter sales. Begins the piece: Blame abortion politics for the Food and Drug Administration's unconscionable delay in approving Plan B --...
On Friday, August 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called for public input on the question of whether Plan B, the ‘morning-after pill,’ can be safely sold to adolescents 16 years-old and over without a prescription, while requiring a...
CNSNews.com has more on the alleged secret deal between a manufacturer of the "morning after" pill and Planned Parenthood:(CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is charging Planned Parenthood with having a secret deal with the manufacturer of the "morning after" pill...
STOPP exposes Planned Parenthood's secret deal to cash in on over-the-counter 'morning-after' pill Washington, DC - "If the FDA gives a green light for over-the-counter distribution, Planned Parenthood stands to take in a minimum $100 million profit over a five-year...
Abortion pill: four users, eight victims - Health officials are investigating the health risks of RU-486. "We should be just as concerned about women's safety as we are about their rights," said Wendy Wright, senior policy director for Concerned Women...
RU-486 is a chemical abortifacient used to take the life of an unborn child in the privacy of one's home. If this wasn't bad enough, a Brown University professor claims that one of the drug's ingredients - mifepristone -- can...
Concerned Women for America (CWA) called "insufficient" the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) recent decision to strengthen the language on RU-486's warning label after reports that two more women have died after taking the abortion pill. Five women in the...
Professor Ralph P. Miech, a professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University, has provided clear evidence that RU 486 causes conditions in which bacterial infections can take hold and become deadly.
A Brown University researcher says the abortion drug RU 486 causes rare bacterial infections in women that are not usually seen anywhere else. An article scheduled to appear in the September issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy confirms the drug...
Responding to yet another woman's reported death and a new FDA warning about the abortion drug Mifeprex, or RU-486, a 17,000-member medical association today again called for the FDA to pull the drug for a safety review. David Stevens, M.D.,...
The FDA issued a public health advisory for Mifepristone (trade name Mifeprex, also known as RU-486) following four deaths associated with the use of the drug. Jill Stanek explains that that problem is related to the drug Cytotec, which is...
LONDON, July 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) The British Medical Journal reported Saturday that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the RU-486 chemical abortifacient as an "essential" medicine for inclusion in a list of medicines required to be available to physicians...
By Michael John Phillips, MD, Vice-President of Pro-Life Wisconsin Pro-abortion family planning providers in Wisconsin are regrettably in the midst of a campaign touting the supposed benefits of the morning-after pill, misleading the public by falsely contending that this drug...
Pro-life Wisconsin is alarmed by the recent shift in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines regarding teen pregnancy. And they should be. The Academy in its most recent report on teen pregnancy urges pediatricians to counsel all teens about contraceptives...
