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Charlotte Lozier Institute

Phone: 202-223-8073
Fax: 571-312-0544

2776 S. Arlington Mill Dr.
#803
Arlington, VA 22206

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September 16, 2026 Examining women’s experiences with medication abortion: a critical inquiry of women’s online narratives post-Dobbs Examining women’s experiences with medication abortion: a critical inquiry of women’s online narratives post-Dobbs September 15, 2026 New Study: Abortion, Natural Pregnancy Loss Are Risk Factors for Future Maternal Complications New Study: Abortion, Natural Pregnancy Loss Are Risk Factors for Future Maternal Complications September 15, 2026 Fact Sheet: Fetal Development Education in the United States Fact Sheet: Fetal Development Education in the United States
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Trends Show More Federal Funds Awarded to Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

Trends Show More Federal Funds Awarded to Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Soon after then-President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Committee (NBAC) in 1999 issued a report recommending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) the subject of such funding became one of the nation’s most hotly contested public policy issues. It was the subject of President George W. Bush’s first nationally televised address, and in the ensuing years Congress held a steady stream of hearings on the topic, many of which featured Hollywood celebrities making the case for expansive federal funding of hESCR.

Video: Once Quadriplegic, Woman Celebrates Lasting Improvement from Adult Stem Cells
Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

Video: Once Quadriplegic, Woman Celebrates Lasting Improvement from Adult Stem Cells

Today the Charlotte Lozier Institute releases its ninth Stem Cell Research Facts video, which revisits the life of adult stem cell recipient Laura Dominguez-Tauer. Her story is a testament to hope, inspiration, and what can happen when the best modern medicine meets unwavering human resilience.

Maternal & Public Health

Dangerous Abortion Pills: Another Woman Drugged and Loses Child

In May of 2017, Brook Fiske made the trip from her home in Rochester, New York to Arlington, Virginia to visit Sikander Imran and discuss with him how they planned to raise their child that she was carrying. The two were medical professionals that had dated in Rochester, and Fiske was 17 weeks pregnant. Though Imran had urged her to terminate the pregnancy, she refused. Tragically, he would have his way. Fiske recently shared her story to local news.

Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics

The Future of IVF’s Genetic Testing?

In opening scenes of the sci-fi thriller Gattaca, the viewer meets a couple who decides to conceive their second child by In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), which has become the “natural” method in this futuristic society. They are told by the scientist who created, screened, and edited the DNA of their embryos, “This child is still you, simply the best of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result.”

Federal Trial Court Strikes Down Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban
Life & the Law

Federal Trial Court Strikes Down Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban

A federal trial court in Austin has struck down a Texas law prohibiting the practice of dismemberment abortion. The court issued its ruling one day before Thanksgiving.

Current Bipartisan Opposition to Assisted Suicide
End of Life

Current Bipartisan Opposition to Assisted Suicide

Bipartisan legislation recently emerged in the U.S. House of Representatives against assisted suicide and for real health care for Americans facing illness and the end of life. The concurrent resolution H.Con.Res.80 expresses “the sense of the Congress that assisted suicide… puts everyone, including those most vulnerable, at risk of deadly harm and undermines the integrity of the health care system.” This resolution is a positive step towards educating Americans about the dangers of physician-assisted suicide and discussing true comprehensive health care – including palliative care, hospice, and life-extending treatments – for Americans facing the end of life.

Abortion Rate Keeps Declining, Although Data are Incomplete
Abortion

Abortion Rate Keeps Declining, Although Data are Incomplete

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released U.S. abortion data for the year 2014, indicating that the U.S. abortion-rate decline, which began in the early 1980s, continues at a steady pace. According to the CDC, both the number of abortions and the abortion rate declined by about 2 percent between 2013 and 2014. 

Down Syndrome Bill Would Represent a Major Challenge to Both Discrimination Abortion and Roe v. Wade
Life & the Law

Down Syndrome Bill Would Represent a Major Challenge to Both Discrimination Abortion and Roe v. Wade

Ohio Right to Life reports that the Ohio Senate has passed S.B. 164, a bill that would prohibit abortion when the abortionist knows that the mother is seeking the abortion because the baby has Down Syndrome. According to Ohio Right to Life, two weeks earlier “the Ohio House passed an identical piece of legislation

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