Life Links 9/15/06

Professor Anna Glasier, who is the Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh, busts up a common myth regarding emergency contraception effectiveness in lowering the number of abortion.

"Yet, despite the clear increase in the use of emergency contraception, abortion rates have not fallen in the UK."

Various individuals from the UK try to answer why the UK's abortion rate is so high. Some individuals blame the lack of access to condoms but no one points out that 82% of abortions were funded by Britain's National Health Service (NHS).


The Michigan House has passed to create "a network of stem cell banks for umbilical cords and adult stem cells."