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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Is abortion common in Kota, India?
Kota, Rajasthan is a city with a reputation for its educational services, but also for an apparent high rate of suicide amongst its students.
This meme suggests that abortion is much more common than ...
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Does California allow (or plan to allow) post-birth abortion?
Ron DeSantis recently appeared on Fox News where he said:
California wants to have abortion all the way up til birth, I think they actually allow it post-birth, if you can believe that, which I think ...
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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?
When it is said that abortion is significantly safer for women compared to childbirth in mainstream media articles, it is often followed by a reference to a scientific study called The Comparative ...
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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?
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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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