Life Links 7/28/11

A study out of New Zealand found that women who get IUDs after abortions are less likely to have repeat abortions in the next two years. The repeat abortion rate for IUD users was less than 6%. It was 13% for birth control pill users and 17% for condom users.


The North Carolina Senate is working to overturn Governor Bev Perdue's veto of their informed consent legislation. The NC House already overrode the veto.


Here's the LOL quote of the week from Amanda Marcotte describing abortion providers in the same week that an abortionist who owns multiple abortion clinics (and is a convicted felon and has had his medical license suspended multiple times) lost a lawsuit and was ordered to pay $36 million and 2 abortionists in Pittsburgh have been charged with illegally providing drugs to a co-worker.

Anti-choicers refuse to acknowledge that abortion providers are medical professionals who put their patients first, instead using terms such as "abortion industry" and claiming that abortion providers are trying to increase the abortion rate to make more money.

There's a reason we refuse to acknowledge abortionists as medical professionals who put their patients first. We follow the news.


Someone threw a molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood facility during Tuesday night. It didn't get inside. A Planned Parenthood rep says it caused serious damage while the fire department says the damage was minor.