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Shocking figures show teenagers have a quarter of abortions in Britain – Daily Mail
Of the countries which allow abortion, Poland, which has extremely tight legislation on the issue, had the lowest teen rate, of less than 0.1 per 1,000. Greece, whose abortion laws are more similar to the UK’s, had the next lowest, with 2.3 terminations per 1,000 women under 20. The average rate in the EU was 14.1 per 1,000, while overall, every ninth abortion in the region was carried out on a teenager.

Abortion A Dying Practice – Townhall
The abortion industry is struggling to reconcile its existence with truths about the procedure that even its members find difficult to deny. In recent years, there have been sharp declines in both the number of medical students training to perform abortions and the number of doctors performing abortions in their practices

Men Should Be Allowed to Veto Abortions By Dr. Keith Ablow – Fox news
The abortion debate has left one issue largely off the table: The proper rights of men to prevent the abortion of their children.

Caitlin McInnis, budding flim-maker, makes powerful short movie on abortion – SPUC

Morning-after pill: A medical nightmare? by Durgesh Nandan Jha – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The morning-after pill, once hailed as a revolution in birth control, is slowly trapping the city’s youth in a vicious cycle of passion, guilt and trauma. The brazen abuse of the over-the-counter (OTC) emergency drug is triggering severe side-effects, and sometimes even failing to prevent pregnancy, forcing girls to suffer the agony of successive abortions. Shockingly, the city’s abortion clinics have a steady inflow of school and college-going girls.

Mark Steyn: An upside-down family tree – Orange County Register
The problem with the advanced West is not that it’s broke but that it’s old and barren. Which explains why it’s broke. So Greece has a spending problem, a revenue problem, something along those lines, right? At a superficial level, yes. But the underlying issue is more primal: It has one of the lowest fertility rates on the planet.

A Nation That Honors Sin By Alan Roebuck – Intellectual Conservative
America does not just tolerate the sins loved by the Left – Abortion, homosexuality, Balkanization through multiculturalism, and so on. Our leaders want us to love sin. What is unprecedented is not the widespread occurrence of sin, nor even the widespread approval thereof.  These have been common through history.  It is the institutionalized, officially mandated approval of sin that is unprecedented.  Widespread sin is bad enough; even worse is the approval thereof. But worst of all is for society’s leaders to promote the approval of sin.

Health Risks in ‘Reproductive Health’: New Studies on the Pill – Zenit
More Research on What Women Are Not Being Told

67% of Canadians support legalizing assisted suicide: poll – National Post
Supporters of legalizing the practice maintain it is a matter of basic human rights that transcends popular attitudes; opponents say Canadians’ beliefs would change if care at the end of life were improved and death made more comfortable.

Anti-suicide laws have served him well

HHS Says “Units” Over 70 Will Receive “Comfort Care” Instead Of Actual Neurological Care
Those who have implied that the President’s health care law will establish “death panels,” have encountered excessive criticism. Yet, more and more information is being released identifying that rationing of care will in fact occur, and that it will be done by government bureaucracies.

Human brain can retrain itself despite aging and illness – Medical Xpress