Jessica Rodgers

  • Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Passes in Alabama

    Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Passes in Alabama

    babyshoecroppedWith less than 30 minutes before the midnight deadline, the Alabama legislature sent the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to Gov. Robert Bentley's desk for his signature.

    "Modern medical science furnishes us with compelling evidence that unborn children recoil from painful stimuli, that their stress hormones increase when they are subjected to any painful stimuli, and that they require anesthesia for fetal surgery," says Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D., director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee.

  • National Right to Life Rebuts Guttmacher Report

    National Right to Life Rebuts Guttmacher Report

    fetusbigThe National Right to Life Committee on Tuesday disputed claims that restrictions on abortion "disproportionately affect" poor women.

    The committe was coming against assertions made in "Changes in Abortion Rates Between 2000 and 2008 and Lifetime Incidence of Abortion," published online Monday in the June 2011 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Researchers from the Guttmacher Institute, originally founded as a special research affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, authored the report.

    "Data showing an 8 percent drop in abortion rates across the board from 2000 to 2008 are encouraging," says Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D., National Right to Life director of education and research. "Guttmacher suggests that higher abortion rates among poorer woman and abortion restrictions are somehow connected, yet it's a thesis that goes undefended. How common sense regulations like right-to-know laws, which tell women about abortion's risks and alternatives which are better for both them and their unborn children, and similar protective measures, are supposed to hurt poor women is hard to fathom."

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