Questions tagged [abortion]
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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Were "Fabricated abortion statistics" used to influence the Roe vs Wade decision?
I read in the National Catholic Register an assertion that the numbers that Justice Blackmun cited in Roe vs. Wade came largely from a book called "Abortion" and that ex-Abortionist Bernhard ...
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Were evangelicals rallied around abortion in 1978, as a substitute for segregation?
The June 20, 2019 edition of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast “examines how the issue of abortion became a defining political issue for evangelicals.”
In it, the hosts talk about evangelicals initially ...
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Did these politicians say these quotes regarding rape?
DISCLAIMER: IMAGE CONTAINS QUOTES THAT RELATE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE
I recently saw a meme on Quora that claims to show quotes from conservative politicians arguing against abortion in the cases ...
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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.
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Are or were aborted human fetal cells used in vaccine production?
I have heard claims that cells from aborted fetuses are involved in the production of vaccines such as MMR. Is this true?
For instance, this page from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown ...
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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 ...
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Are outpatient surgery physicians in Louisiana required to have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic?
Recently, I received a Pro-Life mailing regarding the recent June Medical Services, L.L.C. v. Russo Supreme Court case regarding the Louisiana law that required doctors who perform abortions to have ...
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Did abortion rights activists burn effigies of fetuses at a protest?
The Ask Dr Brown Facebook page shared a a video a crowd around a street fire stating:
Abortion activists burn unborn babies in effigy
This same video was shared on Twitter with a misleading text ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is the penalty for a woman having an abortion more severe than the penalty for rape?
On social media there are a lot of posts fuelled by the recent restrictions on abortion in Alabama and Missouri.
Some of these (the first is from Instagram and the second is from Twitter, although I ...
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Does science define life as "beginning at conception"? [closed]
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 ...
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What are the "many falsehoods", according to Planned Parenthood, promoted by the movie Unplanned? [closed]
Background
The movie Unplanned has been gaining national attention recently despite the narrow publicity from Fox and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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Planned Parenthood's response to ...
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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 ...
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Did Hillary Clinton support legalising such late-term abortions of fetuses as claimed by Ben Shapiro?
Please note that this question contains some graphic language that some people will find distressing. Ben Shapiro makes two statements about Hillary Clinton's views on allowing abortion of a fetus. ...
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Does elective single embryo transfer (eSET) reduce pro-life hangups against IVF? [closed]
On the Centers for Disease Control website about Elective Single Embryo Transfer or eSET, health experts count the risks of multiple births as including:
Some who become pregnant with multiples may ...
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Did over half of the women who had abortions in Canada do so because they were pressured to?
I came across an Abortion Awareness clip that stated:
Studies have shown that over half of post-abortive women in Canada say that their decision was heavily pressured and in some cases bullied by ...
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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:...
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Is 19% of Planned Parenthood's revenue from abortion?
Many anti-abortion sources, such as the ones quoted by this Washington Post fact-check, counter Planned Parenthood's claim that only 3% of its services are abortions with the claim that a large amount ...
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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 ...
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Does "Plan B" (Levonorgestrel) prevent implantation of fertilized eggs?
A common claim made by those who consider contraceptives abortifacients is that "Plan B" (Levonorgestrel) may work by preventing implantation of fertilized eggs. For example, this answer points out ...
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Were 14 million abortions performed on African Americans from 1973 to 2006?
The 2006 book Freed Indeed: The Spiritual Wealth of Black America at page 45 says:
since 1973 over fourteen million black babies have been aborted ... at fourteen million, these abortions exceed ...
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Has a human baby's heart started beating only 18 days after conception?
I saw billboards like this driving around Florida:
18 Days from conception my HEART was beating
[...] Prolife Across America
Is this true?
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Is nearly 50% of Planned Parenthood's earned revenue from abortion? [closed]
According to Planned Parenthood's annual report on page 18, they carried out 327,653 abortions in 2013.
The Guttmacher Institute says the average price paid for an abortion is $451.
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Do abortions make up only 3% of Planned Parenthood's services?
According to this chart, (showing percentages of the absolute number of services provided) only 3% of PP's services are abortions.
Source: Planned Parenthood fiscal year 2013-2014 annual report
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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 ...
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Did banning abortion in Chile lead to lower maternal mortality?
One of the common arguments for legalised abortion is that abortions will continue anyway despite being illegal and these illegal abortions will lead to higher rates of maternal death.
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Do abortion procedures ever result in live births?
The following claim was made in a petition that made me sceptical:
Every year, children are born alive at the time of the abortion procedure after the 20th week of pregnancy in Europe.
Since the ...
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Are these claims about what reduces abortion correct?
This post on tumblr currently has more than 77,500 "notes", so I'd consider it notable. The numbers and letters are mine:
Things that lower abortion rates:
A1: Better access to condoms
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Roe v. Wade: was the rape claim used or influential in the case? [closed]
Regarding the Roe v Wade case (please try to leave your opinions about abortion aside).
It is well known that Norma McCorvey ("Roe") lied about having been raped. It is also seems clear to me that ...
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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
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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 ...
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Are 10% of mental health problems caused by abortion?
A recent meta review (mentioned in some articles in the media, e.g. The Telegraph or CBS News) examining the association between abortion and mental health problems "Abortion and mental health: ...
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Does a fetus feel pain during abortion in gestation week 12-18?
One of the sources of the claim:
http://www.blogicus.com/archives/babies_feel_pain_during_abortions.php
The fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks. This is probably a conservatively late estimate, but it ...
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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 ...
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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:
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studies have shown that ...
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