Ruth Institute Blog

By Judson Berger

As the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation faces accusations that it split with Planned Parenthood over political pressure, at least a couple pro-life groups are claiming the organization may have acted out of concern over an alleged link between abortion and breast cancer.

The theory that induced abortion increases the risk of breast cancer has been studied for decades and is a controversial one — and one that is contested by major medical organizations.  Read more…

“Breast Cancer: Risks and Prevention”, by Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS and Joel Brind, PhD:

A few excerpts from the preface of the last 2 editions:

Over the last thirty years, while most major cancers have started to decline, breast cancer incidence in the US has increased by an alarming 40%. Most of this increase has occurred in the authors’ generation, the generation of “Women’s Lib.” Read more…

By Kevin J. Jones

Washington D.C., Jan 25, 2012 / 05:52 pm (CNA).- A Democratic-leaning Catholic group’s favorable reaction to the Obama administration’s new contraception mandate is being criticized for neglecting the threat to religious freedom and wrongly claiming that contraception lowers the abortion rate.

“This is a real attack on the religious freedom of millions of Americans. People who care about the future of our country should not stand idly by,” said Eric Rassbach, national litigation director of the D.C.-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Read more…

by John Jalsevac

Click to watch video.

January 24, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – What’s more newsworthy: that several hundred thousand people converged on Capitol Hill in the midst of a cold rain in the middle of January in order to protest abortion, or that a tiny handful of pro-abortion counter protesters showed up as well? Read more…

Question for the media: Are pro-lifers invisible?

When 300,000 people show up for the March for Life in Washington, D.C., the media mentions next to nothing. When the multitude is especially youthful and upbeat, the liberal media says they’re mostly old and tired.

Watch this live footage and see the truth for yourself:

2012 March for Life in Washington DC Read more…

by Carolyn Moynihan

If you have ever wanted to get a fully professional, reliable angle on abortion research a new initiative by Priscilla Kari Coleman (interviewed by MercatorNetin November) should interest you. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

According to Paul Rondeau, executive director of the American Life League, “This administration treats Catholics as useful idiots” and generally undermines religious freedom. Read more…

by Katie Hinderer

Monday, January 23, marks the 39th anniversary of Roe vs Wade. Hundreds of thousands of young people journeyed to our nation’s capital to protest this Supreme Court decision. This is nothing new; the protest and march has been going on for years, and it has been gaining in popularity. In fact it seems to me the entire pro-life movement has grown in recent years, especially among the younger set. Read more…

by Michael Stokes Paulsen

January 23, 2012 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/01/4577

39 years ago, the Supreme Court delivered a radical, legally untenable, immoral decision. It has forfeited its entitlement to have its decisions respected, and followed, by the other branches of government, by the states, and by the people. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Americans United for Life (AUL) has released its seventh annual “Life List” revealing how states are moving closer to a pro-life America.

Forty-seven states considered more than 460 abortion-related measures and enacted more than 70 of them. At least 86 bills were introduced in 32 states that were based on the pro-life group’s model language. The ranking of all 50 states is based on the way each deals with a comprehensive list of life issues. Among the top states this year are Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The Annual March for Life is under way in the nation’s capital with as many as 200,000 pro-lifers braving poor weather conditions in Washington to march to the steps of the Supreme Court, where abortion was legalized on January 22, 1973. Read more…

by Rob Schwarzwalder

A judge’s decision to order the abortion of “a mentally ill woman’s unborn baby and sterilize her — if it meant she had to be ‘coaxed, bribed, or even enticed … by ruse’ into the procedure” has drawn appropriate fire from officials in the Bay State. Read more…

Meet at the Stand with Children Info Booth
8th Annual Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday

Join us to promote marriage and family while walking for life at the 8th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco this Saturday, January 21, 2012. Read more…

by Carolyn Moynihan

When prenatal diagnosis brings bad news about their child, parents deserve a real choice of paths. Happily, there is a beautiful option available.

In a Melbourne maternity hospital last month a very shocking event occurred. A healthy, 32-week-old, wanted, unborn child was killed by a lethal injection when the sonographer performing the procedure mistook the child for its unhealthy twin. When the mistake was realised, the mother had an emergency caesarean section and the sick child was also terminated, according to news reports. The whole tragic episode left the mother traumatised and everybody involved distraught. Read more…

by Sheila Liaugminas

That’s the issue dividing pro-life groups, in other words.

Not the words of the New York Times, which prominently featured this story on the front page above the fold in Monday’s edition. Let’s look at what they said and how they said it. Read more…

So horrible.

by Peter Saunders

Children with special needs can be a great challenge to care for but a tragic story from Australia this week demonstrates that the search for the perfect child can have devastating consequences. Read more…

Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson says ‘we were not allowed to talk about it’

WND

A stunning Planned Parenthood document that includes radical ideas such as compulsory abortion and sterilization; special “permits” to have children; penalizing parents; and encouraging homosexuality dovetails with some Obamacare mandates, according to a former Planned Parenthood director. Read more…

by Steven Ertelt

After making headlines nationwide with curious comments in an interviewin which many observers say he indicated he believes human life begins at implantation, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has restated his pro-life views. Read more…

This is so horrifying and chilling.

by Lea Singh

The human mind can hold onto blatant contradictions, but in order to do so it must block out certain unpleasant truths. One such uncomfortable truth has now come knocking at the door in Philadelphia, where a “house of horrors” abortion clinic was discovered early this year. At this clinic viable babies were outright murdered after their births had been induced and they had been fully delivered. Clinic staff have testified that on hundreds of occasions, second and third trimester babies that were breathing, moving and even crying were slaughtered by having their necks slit or their spines severed. Read more…

by Priscilla K. Coleman

Publication in a leading psychiatry journal did not prevent a barrage of criticism for the author of a study showing the mental health risks of abortion.

MercatorNet interviews the author of a major study with hotly-contested  findings. Read more…