140 Days of Prayer

Charles Stanley and In Touch Ministries are proposing Christians join them for 140 days of prayer for our nation July 4th and ending November 20th. You can sign up to receive weekly emails that include Scripture and prayer points to "help unite us as a body of believers." You may also download a PDF file containing issues to pray for.

Abortion groups caught off guard

Abortion groups caught off guard - Sarah Kliff - POLITICO.com: Anti-abortion groups leapt into action last month when the National Right to Life Committee warned that elective abortions would be covered under a Pennsylvania insurance program created by the health care reform law. Within a day, anti-abortion groups got what they wanted: a nationwide ban on coverage for most elective abortions in the so-called high-risk insurance pools.

Education Establishment Not a Friend of the Family

Education Establishment is Not a Friend of the Family � The United Families International Blog: The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional organization and labor union in the U.S. and its influence on education reaches around the world. Their power and influence extends from the walls of the school room to legislative halls as they promote and finance various candidates and initiatives and work to assure their ideology is entrenched in culture. But what many people may not know, including teachers and parents, is that the NEA is not a friend of the family.

Get to Know: United Families International

United Families International - UFI Overview: United Families International is a public charity devoted to maintaining and strengthening the family as the fundamental unit of society. By strengthening the family, the basic building block of society communities, states and nations are strengthened. UFI is not affiliated with any governments, religious organizations or political parties.

Rep. Chris Smith to Introduce “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”

Rep. Chris Smith to Introduce “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”: Smith’s proposed legislation would make permanent the Hyde amendment, which prohibits funding for elective abortions through any program funded by the annual Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Act.

It would also codify the Hyde-Weldon conscience clause within the Hyde amendment, which ensures that recipients of federal funding do not discriminate against health care providers because they do not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions.

It would also make permanent the Helms amendment, the Smith FEHBP amendment, and the Dornan amendment, which respectively prohibit the funding of abortion overseas, the funding of elective abortion coverage for federal employees, and the use of congressionally appropriated funds for abortion in the District of Columbia. It would also make permanent a few other pro-life policies.

World Population Report: 'Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries'

World Population Report: 'Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries': The 2010 World Population Data Sheet, published by the Population Reference Bureau (PBR) on July 28, says that a shrinking pool of working-age populations is jeopardizing social support and long-term health care programs for the elderly, and points to a decrease in the populations of developed countries.

In 1950, there were 12 persons of working age worldwide for every person age 65 or older. By 2010, that number had shrunk to 9. By 2050, this elderly support ratio, which indicates levels of potential social support available for the elderly, is projected to drop to 4.

The report also shows the contrasts between developing and developed countries and highlights that while developing countries will see populations increase, developed countries are beginning to see population shrinkage.

Frozen blood a source of stem cells

Frozen blood a source of stem cells, study finds | Reuters Researchers in Massachusetts have successfully created induced pluripotent stem cells from frozen blood samples. A researcher said that making the embryonic-like stem cells from blood is much easier than using skin samples from patients. They hope the advance will result in more resources for studying diseases.

40/40 Prayer Vigil

40/40 Prayer Vigil: The 40/40 Prayer Vigil consists of 40 days of prayer, followed by 40 hours of around the clock intercession. The Vigil focuses first on personal spiritual revival. It then covers an expanding circle of prayer concerns, from the church to the nation. Sponsored by the Ethics & Religious Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Documentary reveals secrets of the infertility industry

A new documentary, "Eggsploitation," exposes what the makers of the film label the "deceptive advertising, large monetary incentives and appeals to altruism" that are used by the infertility industry to entice college women to engage in human egg donation, a practice that the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network claims exploits them and puts them at "considerable" health risk.

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Get to Know: Caleb Ministries

Caleb Ministries - About Caleb Ministries Help for women and their families who have experienced infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, early-infant death, or who are post-abortive.

Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote

BBC News - Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote: The parliament of Catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting - the first region of mainland Spain to do so. The vote took place as the result of a petition brought to parliament, signed by 180,000 people who say the practice is barbaric and outdated. The vote was brought to the agenda by activists who argue it is cruel and unacceptable.

Editor: Too bad Spain doesn't consider abortion barbaric, cruel, and unacceptable.

DISCLOSE Act Fails in Senate

DISCLOSE Act Fails in Senate: Democrat leaders in the U.S. Senate failed Tuesday afternoon to overcome a Republican filibuster on a campaign finance disclosure bill that critics say threatens the ability of grassroots political organizations, and the pro-life movement, to communicate effectively with voters during election cycles.

Our Neandertal brethren

News to Note, July 24, 2010 - Answers in Genesis: Evolutionists, like creationists, believe that Neanderthals were fully human, the same species as we are.

Abortion foes win round in health overhaul

Associated Press: Abortion foes have scored a victory and traditional allies of the Obama administration are grumbling about a decision to ban most abortion coverage in insurance pools for those unable to purchase health care on their own.

Major Increase in U.S. Interest in Orphans | Christianpost.com

Adoption Agency: Major Increase in U.S. Interest in Orphans | Christianpost.com: The nation’s largest adoption agency announced on Monday that it had the highest-ever increase in adoption placements for a half-year period in 2010. Bethany Christian Services reported that the combined international and domestic adoption placement increased 26 percent over the six-month period of January to June compared to the same time period in 2009.

Related:

An Adoption Movement? Agencies Say Interest on Rise

Adoption is everywhere

God + intact family = less abortion

Marriage and Religion Research Institute: According to the National Survey of Family Growth, 11.3 percent of women who grew up in intact married families and now worship at least weekly had aborted their first pregnancy, followed by women who grew up in other family structures and now worship at least weekly (11.8 percent), those who grew up in other family structures and now never worship (19.7 percent), and those who grew up in intact married families and now never worship (22.4 percent).

Celebrating 20 years of preimplantation genetic diagnosis

BioNews - Celebrating 20 years of preimplantation genetic diagnosis: At the beginning of this month, following the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology annual meeting in Rome, a workshop was held to celebrate 20 years of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. PGD gives couples known to be at high risk of having children affected by an inherited disease the option of using IVF, with embryo biopsy and single cell genetic analysis to selectively transfer unaffected embryos and avoid the possibility of terminating an affected pregnancy only diagnosed at a later stage.

Editor: I don't see much to celebrate. PGD doesn't cure, but kills.

Obamacare Dollars Were Set to Fund Abortions before Controversy

FactCheck.org Confirms: Obamacare Dollars Were Set to Fund Abortions before Controversy: The non-partisan fact-checking site FactCheck.org has vindicated the National Right to Life Committee's claim that federal monies were on the brink of funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools before the matter was exposed by NRLC, prompting the Obama administration to retroactively enforce Hyde-amendment restrictions.

Confronting Anatomy’s Nazi Past

Confronting Anatomy’s Nazi Past Historians have uncovered abundant information about how callous the anatomists of the Third Reich became. In Vienna, for instance, a special streetcar ran between the place of execution and the medical school morgue. If the morgue was full, executions were delayed. At least 1,337 bodies were delivered in this way.

Reprogrammed Stem Cells May Have Limited Use

Reprogrammed Stem Cells May Have Limited Use, Researchers Say - BusinessWeek: Induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPS cells, retain a “memory” of their original adult tissue, making it more difficult to turn them into other cell types for medical treatment.

Norwegian stuck in limbo with twins not genetically her own

Norwegian stuck in limbo with twins not genetically her own - Mumbai - City - The Times of India A Norwegian woman who engaged an Indian woman to be a surrogate mother of twins may not be able to bring them back home because they are not genetically hers.

Reality of nationalized medicine

UK health gap between rich and poor widest ever | UK news | guardian.co.uk: A review of deaths between 1921 and 2007 showed inequality between the rich and poor has been increasing, especially in relation to premature deaths. People in the most deprived areas are much more likely to die younger than those in the richest, and things are no better than during the economic depression of the 1930s.

Hundreds of IVF embryos donated 'without consent'

Hundreds of IVF embryos donated 'without consent' - Telegraph: Hundreds of British couples could have children that are biologically theirs living with other parents around Europe or across the world without knowing. A Spanish clinic runs an 'embryo adoption scheme' where spare embryos are donated to other women if the couple who created them do not know what they want to do with them or do not respond to correspondence from the clinic. Anonymity rules in Spain means the resulting children cannot trace their biological parents or vice versa.

Babel Explains Our Differences Wall Chart

Babel Explains Our Differences Wall Chart - Answers Vol. 3 No. 2 - Answers Bookstore: "Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men." – Psalm 66:5. The Tower of Babel helps to explain much, much more in our world today than just our differences in language. This exclusive wall chart lists seven specific topics that can be explained by the historical event at Babel. From striking similarities in human genetics to a wide variety of skin tones and the order of fossil layers to archaeological discoveries of stone tools, the Tower of Babel is the proper starting point for understanding human history and the many differences in our world.

Republican candidates play up differences on abortion

Republican candidates play up differences on abortion | Elections | Wichita Eagle: The term '100 percent pro-life' means different things to different people — and congressional candidates Mike Pompeo and Wink Hartman are no exception. To Pompeo, that means opposing abortion except when necessary to save the life of the woman. It's a much harder line than current state law, which allows abortion on demand in the first trimester of pregnancy and later-term abortions to preserve the woman's life or health. Hartman, however, takes a harder line than Pompeo — no abortions, no exceptions. He also opposes several popular forms of birth control, which he considers to be another form of abortion.

Pompeo won the coveted endorsement from Kansans for Life, the state's most powerful anti-abortion lobbying and activist group. Hartman countered with an endorsement from the Rev. Michael O'Donnell, pastor of Wichita's Grace Baptist Church and a longtime anti-abortion activist.

Report: Obama Has Spent $23 Million Backing Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution

Report: Obama Has Spent $23 Million Backing Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution: A new report issued by the Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reveals the Obama administration has spent over $23 million for activities in Kenya to influence voters there to support a new constitution that would allow virtually unlimited abortions.

Dr. Koop: Keep Kagan Off High Court

Dr. Koop: Keep Kagan Off High Court - Washington Wire - WSJ: C. Everett Koop construes Elena Kagan as having “manipulated the medical policy statement on partial-birth abortion of a major medical organization.”

“In my many decades of service as a medical doctor, I have never known of a case where partial-birth abortion was necessary in place of a more humane and ethical alternative,” the 93-year-old Koop writes in his open letter addressed to the American people and the U.S. Senate. “I urge the Senate to reject the politicization of medical science and vote no on the Kagan nomination.”

"Angel of Death" became an abortionist after Hitler's fall

Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz death camp doctor known as the "Angel of Death" for his experiments on inmates, practiced medicine in Buenos Aires for several years in the 1950's. He "had a reputation as a specialist in abortions," which were illegal. When one young woman died from his treatment, he was taken before a Buenos Aires judge, who detained him only briefly. The documents say a friend of Mengele's appeared in the courtroom with a "package presumably filled with a large amount of money." After two hours, he was let go. NY Times

New Barna Study Explores Current Views on Abortion

The Barna Group - New Barna Study Explores Current Views on Abortion Barna found non-evangelical born again Christians favor making abortion illegal (55% illegal versus 39% legal), as did active churchgoers (60% versus 33%) and non-mainline Protestants (58% versus 34%).

Those faith segments that prefer keeping abortion legal were self-identified Christians who are not born again (54% legal versus 31% illegal), Catholics (53% versus 36%), mainline Protestants (53% versus 40%), and faiths other than Christianity (54% versus 42%).

The Ethics of Children Made to Order

The Ethics of Children Made to Order - Margaret Somerville — THE MARK: What do we, as a society, owe to the resulting children, especially when we are complicit in their coming into being, by approving and funding the technologies used to create them? They are the people most profoundly and directly affected. They will live their lives as “donor-conceived adults,” “genetic orphans,” as many of them call themselves.

Donor conception may be a completely avoidable human tragedy in the making, one for which we might be holding a truth and reconciliation commission at some future date, when offspring ask, as some are already doing, “How could you have done this to us? How could you have allowed this to happen?”

A Libertarian Perspective on the Stem Cell Debate: Compromising the Uncompromisible

Pro-choice activists argue that embryos are just biological material. On the other, pro-life activists regard it as fully human. Dr. Walter Block cuts the Gordian knot with libertarian reasoning which draws upon the work of Murray Rothbard. Yes, the foetus is indisputably a child, he says, but children are the quasi-property of their parents, who are responsible for a valuable asset which they should not mistreat, but they can dispose of. Hence the solution: foetuses belong to the researchers provided that no one else wants to claim them as their own and raise them. J Med & Philosophy

How Does Scripture Interpret Scripture?

How Does Scripture Interpret Scripture? - Answers in Genesis: Many people consider the book of Genesis to be poetic in genre or allegory in nature. But this is not how Scripture itself interprets the book of Genesis. In Exodus 20:11 God is giving the commandment to rest on the seventh day (the last day of the week). In doing so, He refers to how He originally created.

Leading stem cell scientist quietly drops embryonic work

BioEdge: Leading stem cell scientist quietly drops embryonic work: Harvard’s George Q. Daley once contended that work on hESCs was so important that it could not be delayed. It was needed for cures, drug development and genetic research. Now he has transferred the same sense of urgency and excitement to an ethical non-controversial alternative.

Infertility treatment ups CP risk

Infertility treatment ups CP risk: Children conceived via common infertility treatments are twice more likely to be diagnosed with disabling cerebral palsy, a new study finds.

Pro-Abort Catholic: Women Should Feel 'Guilty' if They Don't Abort Inconvenient Child

Pro-Abort Catholic: Women Should Feel 'Guilty' if They Don't Abort Inconvenient Child: Proponents of feminism within a religious tradition play a crucial role in subverting 'religious fundamentalism' in Catholicism, according to a member of the pro-abortion group Catholics for the Right to Decide.

Is the Synthetic Cell about Life?

Is the Synthetic Cell about Life? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences: Does creating life in a lab demystify it? Every time gametes are combined in a test tube to create embryos, life is created. In another sense, this is not “creating life,” it is only “creating a living organism,” which does not amount to the same thing as creating life unless you already believe that life is nothing more than interacting chemicals. If you believe life involves a special spiritual spark, the breath of God, the wisp of vapor that dementors almost sucked out of Sirius Black, well: creating an organism is not necessarily tantamount to creating that. That’s not just life, but Life, and nothing that happens in the lab will tell us much about it.

Consider, in keeping with the title of this new column, a thought experiment: would a person created through cloning have a soul? I submit that if there are such things as souls at all, then people created through cloning have them, too.

Methodist Church to ‘clarify’ abortion stance

ProLife Alliance � Methodist Church to ‘clarify’ abortion stance: "Their original document states that abortion is always an evil, and “there is never any moment from conception onwards when the fetus totally lacks human significance”. These statements need to be taken to their logical conclusion: that a human being is formed at conception and has as much a right to life as anyone else."

ACLU Demands Feds Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing “Life-saving” Abortions

ACLU Demands Feds Investigate Catholic Hospitals Refusing “Life-saving” Abortions: In an effort to get the federal government to mandate abortion as an emergency medical service in certain situations, the group has sent a letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services demanding it investigate Catholic hospitals for “potential violations” of U.S. law by failing to provide what the organization asserts are “life-saving” abortions.

Phoenix Bishop: Failure to Correct Pro-Abort Pols 'Emboldens' to Greater Evil

Phoenix Bishop: Failure to Correct Pro-Abort Pols 'Emboldens' to Greater Evil: Those who refuse to take Catholic pro-abort politicians to task for their words and actions not only fail the standards of fraternal charity, but embolden such individuals to commit even greater acts of evil against human life and dignity, according to Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix.

Adult Stem Cells: Saving Lives Now

Family Research Council: Adult stem cells from sources such as bone marrow, muscle, and umbilical cord blood are successfully improving health and saving lives of patients now, without destroying the stem cell donor. Over 50,000 patients are treated with adult stem cells every year. But embryonic stem cell research, which requires the destruction of a young human embryo, has not helped a single person.

See also

Stem cells from adults gave me a fuller life

Abba Changes Everything

Abba Changes Everything | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction: "When someone learns that I'm going to speak at their church about adoption, typically the first question is, 'So will you be talking about the doctrine of adoption or, you know, real adoption?' That's a hard question, because I cannot address one without addressing the other. We cannot master one aspect and then move to the other, from the vertical aspect of adoption to the horizontal aspect, or vice versa."

Bad Humans! Even Our Pre-Industrial Ancestors Caused Global Warming � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Bad Humans! Even Our Pre-Industrial Ancestors Caused Global Warming � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: "Apparently, even pre-industrial humans were environmental villains. A new study blames our ancestors for starting global warming by wiping out the mammoths."

See also Climate, Consensus and Healthy Skepticism and Evangelicals & Global Warming

A window onto Roman bioethics

The archeologists of a 2,000-year-old Roman villa in the Thames Valley are puzzled by the discovery of a mass burial of 97 new-born infants. Forensic examination of the skeletons suggests the inhabitants must have been systematically killing the children. Archaeologist Jill Evers believes that the villa may have been a brothel. She says that without contraception or abortion, the Romans would have had to kill newborns. While shocking to modern sensibilities, infants were not considered to be human beings in the fullest sense until they were about two years old. Children younger than this were seldom buried in cemeteries, but in the grounds of domestic sites. BBC

Divorce is contagious

Divorce can spread like a virus amongst friends, family and work places, according to new research. Break-ups within friendship groups could cause couples to question their own relationships. Scientists suggest that if an immediate friend, family member or colleague goes through a marriage break-up, a person’s own chance of divorce increases by 75 per cent. The domino effect means that even the marriage breakdown of a friend-of-a-friend could raise the chance of a person’s own marriage ending by a third. Christian Institute

What the Catholic Church Says on Abortion and Hard Cases

On June 23, 2010, the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Doctrine released a clarification entitled: The Distinction between Direct Abortion and Legitimate Medical Procedures.

The president’s commitment to British-style of health care made clear

Dr. Richard Land lived under socialized medicine for two years, 11 months and 4 days, but who’s counting? My wife and I lived in England as I pursued my doctorate at Oxford. It was a horrible system. I am absolutely convinced that many people under that system wouldn’t have died nearly as soon if they had lived in the U.S. ERLC

Hard to Believe? Biblical Authority and Evangelical Feminism

Anne Eggebroten visited Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and what she found there shocked her. In “The Persistence of Patriarchy,” Eggebroten writes in the July 2010 edition of Sojourners magazineabout “the wide reach” of complementarian views of manhood and womanhood among conservative Christians. Her article is subtitled: “Hard to believe, but some churches are still teaching about male headship.” Hard to believe? Albert Mohler

Russian claims to know the secret of eternal life

"I don't ever want to die... It wouldn't suit me." Fortunately, Innokenty Osadchy is certain he has found a loophole out of death. The 35-year-old investment banker is ready to pay a small fortune to freeze his brain until future technology allows him to continue his life -- after being transplanted into a new body and resuscitated. AFP

'When Is a Life Form Worthy of Life?'

Many worry that screening embryos pre-implantation, during fertility treatments, opens the door to gender selection and designer babies. But a German court on Tuesday decided to allow the practice. Commentators say the ruling throws up more questions about genetic selection than answers. The case before Germany's Federal Court of Justice was anything but straightforward. It dealt with the genetic tests performed on embryos produced via artificial insemination prior to implantation in a mothers womb. But at its core, it dealt with the very origins of life -- and with the question as to which embryos should be allowed to live, and which should not. Der Spiegel

Editor: I wish editors would get it together. Are we talking about the origins of human life or life forms? But at least the question is being asked, perhaps as honestly as it can be. Leave it to Germany to put the chill into it.

Screams from Greek stage aim for doctors’ hearts

As medical technologies extend the lives of the sickest, medical schools across the country have struggled to find a way to help doctors better navigate new moral quandaries around death and dying. The recent performance of scenes from Greek plays at Harvard Medical School represents one of the more unusual and emotionally powerful approaches. Called End of Life, the program uses ancient Greek tragedies to spark discussion among medical students and professionals about the ethics of treating patients facing painful, prolonged deaths. Boston Globe

Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity conference

A decade into the biotech century, scientific discoveries and technological innovations are transforming the nature of biomedicine and revolutionizing the expectations for biotechnology. A new medicine that moves beyond therapy to enhancement presents both opportunities and perils. Beyond Therapy: Exploring Enhancement and Human Futures probes these possibilities. What do these imply for the future of our individual and common humanity? Beyond Therapy sessions will explore the emerging enhancement challenges and opportunities arising in the global environment. A diverse schedule of speakers will address this move from therapy to enhancement, with special attention given to contemporary lessons in the areas of emerging technologies, personalized genomics, and regenerative medicine.

When Kagan Played Doctor

Fourteen years ago, to protect President Clinton's position on partial-birth abortions, Elena Kagan doctored a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Conservatives think this should disqualify her from the Supreme Court. They understate the scandal. It isn't Kagan we should worry about. It's the whole judiciary.

Kagan, who was then an associate White House counsel, was doing her job: advancing the president's interests. The real culprit was ACOG, which adopted Kagan's spin without acknowledgment. But the larger problem is the credence subsequently given to ACOG's statement by courts, including the Supreme Court. Judges have put too much faith in statements from scientific organizations. This credulity must stop.

All of us should be embarrassed that a sentence written by a White House aide now stands enshrined in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, erroneously credited with scientific authorship and rigor. Kagan should be most chastened of all. She fooled the nation's highest judges. As one of them, she had better make sure they aren't fooled again. Slate

The Secret: A Fatal Attraction

In this month's Solid Ground, Greg Koukl matches Jesus against the country's most influential "pastor" and spiritual guide, Oprah Winfrey. Excellent overview of worldview.

When Feminism Kills — Abortion As ‘The Lesser Evil’

“If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.” That statement, published for all the world to see, perfectly distills the inescapable logic of the abortion rights argument. It is based on a willingness to kill — and on the horrifying audacity to call this killing “the lesser evil.”

In “Yes, Abortion is Killing. But It’s the Lesser Evil,” writer Antonia Senior acknowledges that an unborn child at any stage is a human life. But she then proceeds to assert that feminism is more important than life, and that, when necessary, women must be willing to kill for the feminist cause even as they are willing to die for it. Albert Mohler

An Evangelical Crusade To Go Green With God

Dr. Russell Moore has posted a call-to-arms for evangelical Christians to take action to protect the environment. The Gulf spill has the potential to be a defining moment for evangelicals, he says, much like Roe v. Wade activated the evangelical anti-abortion movement. Prior to Roe, most evangelicals really thought of those issues of life and protecting the unborn as being a Roman Catholic issue," he says. "Somebody else's issue. But then after Roe v. Wade, suddenly evangelicals saw what was at stake and became involved. This catastrophe in the Gulf could be that kind of defining moment." NPR

Kagan Attempted to Influence Second Medical Group on Partial-Birth Abortions

The pressure on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has jumped this week thanks to a memo she wrote during the Clinton administration showing her pressuring a medical group to change its position on partial-birth abortion. Now, new files indicated Kagan also pressured the American Medical Association. Kagan discussed with other Clinton administration officials whether the AMA could reverse its policy saying there is not an identified situation in which partial-birth abortion is the only appropriate method of abortion. The AMA also noted ethical concerns with partial-birth abortions and said that it should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. LifeNews

IVF, Mass Production, and Coercion

Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) is recommended by the practitioners of artificial reproduction methods on the grounds that it is necessary to safeguard the health of the mother and surviving children. As with other abortion procedures, however, there is little, if any, evidence that this procedure actually attains the desired outcome.

In regard to the other children, MFPR introduces the additional risk of miscarrying all the children. The emotional trauma and self-blame that many couples experience after undergoing MFPR and then miscarrying all of their children, after years of longing, prayer, and payment of huge medical bills to become pregnant, is unimaginable. It has yet to be studied. Post-Abortion Review

Targeting "Excess" Children: Infertility Treatments and the Problem of "Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction"

Just as reproductive technologies have changed obstetrical practice, so too have they led to a type of abortion which affects a different population of pregnant women from those who do not want to be pregnant. These women want very much to have a child, and it is ironic that they and their partners who are suffering the problems of infertility must often come face-to-face with abortion. Elliot Institute