Unwanted Abortion: Man Slips Misoprostol to Woman with Wanted Child
A woman is suing her boyfriend for tricking her into taking misoprostol to kill her unborn baby. Here is the lawsuit filed in Florida. Remee Jo Lee was thrilled to be pregnant. Her boyfriend Andrew Welden took Remee Jo to his father, a doctor, to confirm the pregnancy. Andrew then claimed she had a bacterial [...]
WHO Illegal Abortions Underway in Latin America
Here is an article about abortion hotlines in Latin America that use WHO guidance on DIY abortions. The volunteers that run the hotline are not medical practitioners of course, they are abortion activists. Now they no longer need to rely on information from IPPF and Marie Stopes, now they can rely on WHO info, except that info [...]
Why “Abortion as a Human Right” Is More Dangerous for Women
The World Health Organization and the UN Commissioner on Human Rights have both released guidelines that assume abortion is a human right and should have no limits. Abortion for all nine months, with no legal protections for mother or baby. Here is what happens when there are virtually no restrictions. In the state of Maryland, [...]
WHO Prescribes Unsafe Abortion for Poor Women
A new manual by the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to do abortions is facing criticism for advocating substandard medical care and a ban on all limits to abortion. Aimed particularly at poor women in developing countries, the manual downplays medical oversight and recommends disposing of the “waste,” including babies’ remains, in sewers or [...]
WHO: Free Guidance for Melinda
Melinda Gates has just received a free lesson on how to spend the four billion dollars collected by her foundation and the UNFPA to promote and provide contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa. The most recent WHO Bulletin contains an interesting study detailing how marketing campaigns had a positive impact on condom use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine, with [...]
Melinda’s Message to Dying Mothers: “Sorry, You Should Have Used a Condom”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is telling mothers that die because they choose to have children that using condoms could have prevented their complications in pregnancy. In an article published in Lancet, “Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries”, the Gates funded institute concludes that contraception is a [...]
Catholic Church Should Put Nuns on Birth Control
An article in Lancet by two Aussie researchers calls on the Catholic Church to put nuns on birth control because of the increased risk of contracting uterine, ovarian and breast cancer as a consequence of never having children. The article“The plight of nuns: hazards of nulliparity” says that the increased risk of those types of [...]
Guttmacher Inflates Abortion Numbers in Latin America
A recent article in a medical journal in Mexico completely debunks the Guttmacher Institute numbers on “unsafe” abortions in several latin american countries. The study found that the Guttmacher methodology is not only unsound scientifically, but unprofessional. According to the authors Guttamcher did not only obtain estimates that are empirically impossible through unsound methodology, but [...]
Why data on “unsafe” abortion is wrong
Even though abortion advocates and UN agencies have claimed for many years that 13% of all maternal deaths are due to “unsafe” abortion, the fact is that no one really knows. That’s because much of the world doesn’t report the cause of death at all. So says the WHO–yet again. This time in its launch of an [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
New WHO study on abortion–or is it?
The Lancet published a joint WHO/Guttmacher Institute study which, predictably, concludes that nations must legalize abortion to make childbearing safer. Here is the report’s bottom line: “The substantial decline in the abortion rate observed earlier has stalled, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased. Restrictive abortion laws are not associated with lower [...]
Another WHO division in trouble?
The Guardian UK reports that the WHO essential medicines department has been hit by the fiscal squeeze. Here is a previous story on the department’s endorsement of misoprostol.
How To Magically Make Abortion “Safe”
What’s worse than being a statistic? Not even being counted. That’s what is likely to happen to a 42-year old woman who, The Age reports, died on Sunday after a legal abortion at a Marie Stopes International clinic in Australia. Since Australia allows abortion, this will fall into the “safe abortion” category by some researchers [...]
From Russia with Love: 126 non-governmental Organisations in Russia and Ukraine condemn UN attempts to manufacure false “human rights”
On 24 November 2011, representatives from 126 non-governmental organisations in Russia and Ukraine have adopted an impressive statement called the Saint-Petersburg-Resolution, calling the UN and its various organisations to order. The Resolution, which in unconpromising language condemns the “anti-family tendencies prevailing in the UN and various of its committees”, is built on the model of [...]
Red Cross promoting abortion as a human right? Shame on WHO
The latest report on maternal health from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) will leave some readers thinking IFRC endorses abortion as a human right. That’s because it quotes, in a section on human rights (p.23), a highly controversial report from a UN staff saying all nations must legalize abortion because of women’s [...]
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Endorse Special Rapporteur on Right to Abortion
Just in case anyone was wondering who actually pays attention to anything that goes on within the UN Human Rights machinery… The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCRC) and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health have just issued a report on maternal and child health. In the report they [...]
New Study: Contraceptives Double Risk of HIV/AIDS
The New York Times front page today carried the story of a new study showing that injectible contraceptives double the risk of contracting HIV. The contraceptive is the most popular in eastern and southern Africa (used by some 12 million women). Women who are HIV positive double the chance they will infect their partner. What [...]
New Report: RU-486 Quietly Killing Women
The US Food and Drug Administration, which approved mifeprex for medical abortions, has just quietly released a new report showing how deadly their decision has turned out to be. When the World Health Organization recently added misoprostol to its list of “essential” medicines, pro-life OB/GYNs welcomed its potential to stop post-partum bleeding but were wary [...]
5 UN agencies join to promote universal abortion rights
Under the auspices of condemning the heinous practice of sex selective abortion, 5 UN agencies have issued a statement essentially calling for universal unrestricted abortion. Thanks to Marie Smith for highlighting the following disturbing passages in the document: Various United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies have established that the rights of women and girls [...]
Kenyan OB/GYN Confirms Destructive Power of US Population and Development Programs
This is testimony from a doctor working on the ground that needs to be read by everyone working in the international population and development field. Here is a sampling: Population Control – The Kenyan Perspective By Dr. Stephen K. Karanja, M.B.CH.B.M.MED O/G – Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist The first birth control clinic was opened in Nairobi, the [...]