Termination of pregnancy by removal of fetus or embryo from the mother body. This process can occur naturally (as in spontaneous abortion/miscarriage) or as a result of a medical procedure/process involving either chemical or surgical interventions. Also may refer to any of the numerous legal, social, political, ethical, religious, moral, philosophical, medical, scientific topics of debate which surround the issue.
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Are 30% of human embryos "spontaneously aborted"?
From Richard Dawkins on Feb 1, 2019
How could I have failed to predict it? My tweet of the beautiful newt embryology film is already triggering the abortion nuts. Did you know, at least 30% of human embryos are spontaneously aborted? Does that make…
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Did thousands of women die every year due to illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade?
Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood, has repeatedly said that thousands of women died every year as a result of abortions prior to Roe v. Wade:
We face a real situation where Roe could be overturned. And we know what will happen, which…
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Are 42% of human deaths worldwide from abortion?
Lately, social media has been flooded with all sorts of "facts" about abortion. This one in particular caught my attention:
42% of yearly deaths in the world are from abortion
A worldwide crisis
I don't want this to degrade into an argument about…
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Was Donald Trump treated with pharmaceuticals derived from fetal stem cells?
A post on www.twitter.com [link] has garnered over 100K retweets and 345K likes which states:
So it turns out the monoclonal antibodies that Trump is on are from fetal stem cells. So Trump is being treated/saved with dead babies. Republicans? Amy…
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Have one in four American women had an abortion?
From Reuters today, in the article Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to gut abortion rights:
About one in four American women has had an abortion, [attorney Julie] Rikelman added.
According to the article, this statement was made during…
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Is this picture from an abortion clinic dumpster?
I found this picture from a reply to Kamala Harris' tweet.
Warning, graphic and possibly disturbing image of a man handling what appear to be human fetuses: Click to view.
It has the following text:
This man went behind an abortion clinic dumpster…
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Does science define life as "beginning at conception"?
The following link makes such a claim
https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.html
The following references illustrate the fact that a new human embryo, the starting point for a human life, comes into existence with the formation…
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Did the legalisation of abortion result in lower crime rates?
In the book Freakanomics, the author speculated that due to the legalization of abortion in the US, crime rates fell because the people that would normally go out and commit these crimes, well they were never born in the first place.
Aside from the…
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In Alabama, if a person is found not guilty of rape, is their accuser assumed to be lying?
jessica a. m. @my2k
so the Alabama abortion criminalization bill has an extra tacked onto the end of it wherein, if a woman reports being raped and they find the person she accused not guilty, SHE goes to jail, because it's declared a false rape…
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Does Planned Parenthood sell the organs of late-term fetuses?
A story has shown up on my news feed claiming "breaking news" that Planned Parenthood harvests organs from late-term abortions.
link to blog
This is probably the most gut-wrenching story I have ever had to report on in my eight years of pro-life…
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Does Planned Parenthood impose abortion quotas on its clinics and provide incentives to its workers to meet those quotas?
A recent article in the National Review asserts that
Planned Parenthood has long been imposing abortion quotas on its clinics nationwide, incentivizing its workers to convince women to terminate their pregnancies
This assertion seems to be based…
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Do abortions cause breast cancer?
Conservapedia's sub-article on Abortion and Breast Cancer claims that there is an undeniable link between breast cancer and abortions:
The vast majority of scientific
studies have shown that abortion
causes an increase in breast cancer,
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Do Crisis Pregnancy Centers lie about the results of pregnancy tests?
According to Planned Parenthood, Crisis Pregnancy Centers have a history of providing misleading or wrong information about abortions. Specifically they state:
They have a history of giving women wrong, biased information to scare
them into not…
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Does banning abortion significantly increase or decrease the number of abortions?
According to the following article, the oft quoted result that abortion is higher in countries where it is legal is misleading:
The obvious problem with The Lancet study is that many of the
countries where abortion is illegal are located in…
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Does freely available contraception cut the abortion rate?
A recent study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (see report here) concluded that provision of free long-acting contraception reduced the number of abortions in its recipients.
Even such an apparently simple result can be…
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