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After the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, states across the country have enacted laws that limit abortion. Frequently, these laws make exceptions for abortions for certain reasons, such as rape and incest, risk to the mother’s life…

Every state with strong pro-life laws allows doctors to intervene to save a woman’s life in a medical emergency.

Of interest to the medical, moral, sociological, and political issues surrounding late-term abortion is the question of why women seek abortion after twenty weeks gestation. Any data considered to answer this question must be examined carefully for limitations. However, a greater understanding…

In this paper, Dr. Maureen Condic examines scientific evidence for the point at which it is evident that human life begins.

Answers to frequently-asked questions about late-term abortion.

In 2019, there was a flurry of activity around abortion laws at the state level on both sides of the abortion debate. While states such as Alabama, Louisiana, and Missouri passed life-affirming legislation, other states went a decidedly different direction in codifying…

This timeline describes key milestones in the development of pain perception, highlighting in particular recent evidence that fetuses have the capacity to experience pain by at least 12 to 15 weeks’ gestation.

“While some people falsely claim that a preborn baby at 6 weeks’ gestation is just a clump of cells, science demonstrates the baby is already a complex human being,” said Dr. Tara Sander Lee, senior fellow and director of life sciences at…

In 1999 Texas became the first U.S. state to pass an infant Safe Haven law. Today, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have enacted variations of the law.

Meta-analyses and other large studies indicate that abortion can adversely impact mental health. Multiple studies have found associations between abortion and specific mental health outcomes such as substance use, anxiety, depression, and suicide.

In April 2024, Planned Parenthood released its annual report for 2022-2023. In this fact sheet, data from that report is summarized.

Nearly 70% of women with a history of abortion describe their abortions as inconsistent with their own values and preferences, with one in four describing their abortions as unwanted or coerced, according to the study published in the medical journal Cureus.