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Limiting abortion will not prohibit any life-saving medical interventions, as is clearly shown by every pro-life state law having exceptions for the life of the mother.

Abortion providers often abandon women who suffer complications from their procedures to be treated by other facilities.

A first pregnancy abortion, compared to a birth, is associated with significantly higher subsequent mental health services utilization following the first pregnancy outcome. The risk attributable to abortion is notably higher for inpatient than outpatient mental health services.

As we mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, one thing is clear: The debate the Supreme Court’s 5-4 majority invited by reversing Roe v. Wade is happening - and it is intense.

Here are five things that everyone should know about abortion in the United States – but cannot because of the poor state of abortion reporting.

Each concern regarding abortion restrictions and maternal health is addressed below from an evidence-based perspective, followed by a rebuttal to the most recent claims in the media.

The provision of alternatives to abortion has been the hallmark of the U.S. pro-life movement since the founding of the first pregnancy help centers more than a half century ago.  Ever since, and accelerating after the mid-1980s, PHCs, as the centers are…

As important as the topic of abortion is acknowledged to be, the inadequacies in public information about the procedure and its medical, economic and social consequences remain a national scandal. 

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) claims that “[b]enefit-risk assessment is the foundation for” the agency’s “regulatory review of human drugs and biologics.” But when it comes to abortion regulation, particularly chemical abortion regulation, that foundation is severely compromised.

Normalizing physician-assisted suicide as an acceptable form of “care” raises concerns about promoting suicide when we aim to prevent it.

Although a majority of women who have an abortion report having 1 or more children, there is no published research on the number of abortions which occur between live births, after a first child but before the last. The objectives of this…

Texas’ 2021 report was released by Texas Health and Human Services in September 2022, reporting a drop in abortions from 2020.