Pill articles I've mentioned

From time to time I’ve mentioned a series of links to pill articles that I’ve given away as CDs or floppys or emailed to people.  Here is a list of many of the links, plus a few on other matters.  My return to pro-life has been at best bittersweet.

Pro-life Physicians


Hormonal contraceptives as Birth Control
Hormone contraceptives:Controversies and clarifications
Birth Control, Abortifacient and Contraceptive  note the reference to a 3.5 cm size for the baby.  This is well after implantation has taken place.
Focus on the Family's position

Emergency contraception
NPR blog post on Plan B
Progesterone-only emergency contraception and ectopic pregnancy
The Mini-Pill or Progesterone-only pill
Effectiveness of levonorgestrel emergency contraception given before or after ovulation--a pilot study.
Postcoital treatment with levonorgestrel does not disrupt postfertilization events in the rat.

Ulipristal. Postcoital contraception: no better than levonorgestrel.
Emergency Contraception: a Last Chance to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy





Other links
How Pro-lifers should talk about Birth Control

Does birth control cause cancer?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1353209/Pill-fails-to-curb-teen-pregnancies.html  

article suggesting a link between multiple abortions and cervical cancer

carcinogenic risks of hormonal contraception and postmenopausal hormonal therapy
Early age at first sexual intercourse and early pregnancy are risk factors for cervical cancer in developing countries.

Wikipedia articles

Wikipedia IUD article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_pregnancy_controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progesterone_only_pill
Wikipedia article on emergency contraception
Wikipedia article on "ella" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RU-486

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-breast_cancer_hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Grisez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Noonan,_Jr.

Revisting the San Diego County Fair

I went to the Del Mar fair today for the first time in too long.  They didn’t have the pro-life table there yet, but I went down anyway just to become familiar with the place once again.  The table will be in the San Diego Pavillion in the infield of the racetrack, and I have slots for June 30 and July 2.  If I get a chance, I’ll try to drop by there next Monday to see if there’s anyone familiar.

Be careful what you wish for

The Chicago Tribune has recently been reporting a number of incidents where abortion records were not being kept properly, including records of their complications.  Unfortunately this falls under the category of “Be careful what you wish for…”

Years ago Jack Willke and his wife wrote a book “Handbook on Abortion” that covered a number of issues relating to abortion.  In response to claims that we needed to legalize abortion to reduce illegal abortions, the Willkes argued that it would not reduce this, because of the privacy factor.  Even if abortion were legal, they argued that a wife pregnant by another man would still have it done illegally because of the possibility that the husband could find out from medical records that his wife had a legal abortion.  In the same way, a minor would go to an illegal abortionist for fear her parents might find out if she had it done legally.   By being so lax on record-keeping, they may have gotten rid of reasons for seeking illegal abortions, but the legal ones aren’t much safer, and there are more of them.

Ultrasound Equipment and Abortion-The Good News and the Bad News

Two news stories have recently revealed that the use of ultrasound can reduce the incidence of abortion.  Focus on the Family has recently claimed that its Option Ultrasound Program has saved 100,000 babies from abortion since its inception in 2004, and a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that ultrasound images reduce support for abortion.

The bad news is that keepsake ultrasound machines are apparently being used in Asian-American communities to determine the sex of the baby—and if the sex is female—it’s aborted.