The recent recommendation by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel that the FDA approve the sale of Ella (ulipristal acetate) as an “emergency contraceptive” was practically a foregone conclusion. I can’t recall the last time the FDA rejected…

It should be called the Planned Parenthood Economic Stimulus Package of 2009.
Instead, co-sponsors U.S. Senators Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) have given their “new” (though largely recycled) bill the promising title “Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need…

Everybody loves free stuff like those “buy one, get one free” deals and “free” trips with frequent flier miles. But sometimes the stuff given out free as a marketing ploy actually harms people. What would you call a business that…

Here’s a riddle for readers: Name the terrible affliction that since 2000 has hurt over 800 women, but is completely preventable by legislation. Need some clues? Here are some symptoms documented in reports to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

What’s going on at The Washington Post? Last week this predictable well-spring of pro-choice thinking ran an op-ed by longtime Post columnist Richard Cohen questioning the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. This is the third…

A recent spate of news stories showed that socially acceptable reasons for creating and destroying babies are rapidly evolving. To assist readers in keeping abreast of current trends, the guideposts are noted below.
1) It's okay to make a baby…

Every imaginable method of butchering, mutilating, and otherwise snuffing out the life of a living human baby — both before and mostly during delivery — is presented in cold-blooded, clinical, remorseless detail.
Outside the practice of mid- and late-term abortion,…

Every effort was made to keep the pro-life agenda from being debated on the Senate floor, lest it pass or lest it call attention to the positions of pro-abortion members and hurt them in the midterm elections. Allowing pro-life bills…

Consider this paradox: A few weeks ago the Virginia legislature scored a long-sought pro-life victory, mustering enough votes to pass a law mandating a waiting period before a woman may undergo an abortion. Now, a measure that treats abortion-causing…