By KARL DU FRESNE – The Dominion Post 20/07/2010 OPINION: It went unnoticed by the media, but Justice Minister Simon Power recently issued a press statement announcing that Rosemary Fenwicke had decided not to seek reappointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee. There’s a story behind this. Dr Fenwicke, a member of the three-person committee since [...]
Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a fetus, by that stage in pregnancy, has the capacity to feel pain. The law, which appears nearly certain to set off legal and scientific debates, is the first in the nation [...]
In response to the release by Statistics New Zealand of the abortion statistics for 2008, Dr Margaret Sparrow, President of ALRANZ stated:
“… We totally agree with the anti-abortion groups who say that it is ridiculous that 98 per cent of abortions in New Zealand are done on mental health grounds, because that is patently a farce.”
Deception the name of the game for pro-abortion campaigners and their motley array of ideological bedfellows.
Viewpoint: by Barbara Faithfull
Bitter brickbats are regularly hurled against those who oppose abortion, the so-called “pro-lifers”.
Christchurch anti-abortion campaigner Ken Orr has laid a complaint with police after a video was posted on YouTube showing a gun being pointed at his head.
Abortion increases mental health risk
New research published in a prestigious medical journal has found that abortion increases the risk of serious mental ill-health by 81%. The meta-analysis by Dr Priscilla Coleman, professor of human development and family studies at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University, was published in the September 2011 edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Dr Coleman [...]