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Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Medicine Induced Abortion), Abortion Naturally Accidentally, and Contraception Naturally & Hom by Dr. Rakesh Kumar Posted Tue 27 Oct 2009 5:22pm

1 Comment MTP is a legal issue and MTP act enacted by Government of India states that this can be done only by a physician who can perform the operation and can be done up to 20 weeks of gestation, up to 12 weeks opinion of one doctor is required and from 12 to 20 weeks the opinions of two doctors are required and the doctors must be duly recognized under ... Read on »

Are 'Partial Birth' Abortions Ever Medically Necessary? by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:00pm On Nov. 8, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court revisits the Partial Birth Abortion issue again in the cases of Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood.The Supreme Court had addressed in this issue 2000, in Stenberg v. Carhart, where a 5-4 decision struck down a state statute in part because it contained an exception only in cases where a ... Read on »

Should Women Who Get Abortions Have Medical Details Posted Online? by Patty .. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 21 Dec 2009 6:46am There is a controversial case pending in Oklahoma that wants to stop a law passed in May requiring doctors to post information online about women who get abortions in OK, including her age, marital... Littlebytes Online Store is now open.....shop for custom apparel for men, women, children, infants and toddlers, gifts and more! Littlebytesnews ... Read on »

Medical vs Surgical Abortions: No Greater Physical Risk for Future Pregnancies by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:26pm According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday, researchers found no evidence that a previous medical abortion, as compared with a previous surgical abortion, increases the risk of spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy, preterm birth, or low birth weight . Researchers analyzed records of approximately 12, ... Read on »

One Medical Malpractice Attorney's View Of Abortion by Brendan Kevenides Patient Expert

Posted Fri 07 Aug 2009 11:51am Abortion. The word evokes strong emotion whenever it is uttered or written. As a trial lawyer representing persons injured due to shoddy medical care, I see it as a health care issue. Abortion is an invasive medical procedure. Physicians performing them owe a duty to their patients to do so with reasonable competence. The goal of the pro-choic ... Read on »

Forced Speech: Pushing Against Conscientious Objection by Medical Practioners to Abortion in California by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted Sun 29 Mar 2009 4:13pm The following post will be about abortion and conscientious objection thereto by medical professionals. But it could just as easily be about assisted suicide, or using embryonic stem cell therapies, or pulling feeding tubes, because the principles are the same--as are the reasons for the attempted coercion of medical professionals to cooperate wit ... Read on »

Arrest in Thrown Away Baby Who Survived Abortion--Only to Die in Medical Waste Bag by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted Thu 05 Mar 2009 6:06am Readers of SHS will recall the awful case of the baby who survived a late term abortion only to be--allegedly--put in a medical waste bag and literally thrown away. The abortionist already lost his license in the case, and now there has been an arrest. From the story: An abortion clinic owner is accused of delivering a live baby during a bot ... Read on »

One Woman’s Raw and Honest Take on Aborting a Child Due to a Medical Condition by IDSC for Life Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:02pm “Bigger and better antenatal testing may thrill research scientists and be of enormous importance to those parents who are very clear in their minds about the kind of babies they want to bring into the world. But for some of us, there is a grave danger that the very ease and simplicity of the tests make life-and death decisions too easy ... Read on »

Marie Stopes abortion clinic to open in Belfast by Nicci T. Health Maven

Posted Thu 11 Oct 2012 10:07am Northern Ireland’s first private abortion clinic will open next week. Run by Marie Stopes , the clinic is based in Belfast and will provide early medical terminations within the legal limits. Abortions are currently available on the NHS in Northern Ireland on a controlled basis – before nine weeks, and if it is deemed that pregnancy will h ... Read on »

Visiting an Abortion Clinic by CCLCM Student .. Medical Student

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:03pm Today was quite an interesting day. I had my MS class this morning, and it was actually enjoyable. The same statistician that I really liked last summer gave the first half of the class, and one of the statisticians I had worked with over the summer for my research gave the other half. Last week, one of my classmates had invited all of the ... Read on »