Guttmacher’s research paper “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions” (2005 – Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 37(3):110-118) does not address Late-Term Abortion specifically, although certain conclusions are drawn applicable to post-13-weeks’ gestation lmp abortions – second trimester abortions – some of which would be late-term abortions of viable infants, i.e. from 22 through 27 weeks’… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
Lest we forget, an average of 3,560 abortions take place every day of the year in America. The approximately 1.3 million total abortions a year (the real number is higher than the Guttmacher’s published estimate) is made up of first trimester abortions at around 1,150,000 a year, by far the vast majority of abortions. Then… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2003 REVISED, TO INCLUDE LATE-TERM D&E DISMEMBERMENT ABORTION OF POTENTIALLY VIABLE INFANTS AT 21 WEEKS GESTATION AND LATER BAN ACT OF 2011 One Hundred Twelfth Congress of the United States of America: On this date……., 2011 An Act: To Prohibit the practice commonly known as Late-Term D&E Dismemberment-Abortion of… [Read more…]
March 11, 2011
On January 2, 2011 this blog posted an article entitled LATE-TERM D&E ABORTION BAN ACT DRAFT BILL. This referenced Draft Bill comprised a proposal to institute a federal ban on late-term, second-trimester, elective D&E dilation & evacuation abortions of potentially viable infants (i.e. from the 21st or 22nd week of gestation age through the 27th… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
“Choosing Abortion Over Israel” is the heading on a Letter to the Editor in the columns of FIRST THINGS monthly magazine, March 2011 issue, written by this author (Juan O’Callahan) – see www.firstthings.com – link to Letters. The letter is reproduced below. “Choosing Abortion Over Israel In the “While We’re At It” section in… [Read more…]
February 18, 2011
Saving viable infants comprises the subject, the research and the goal of cccf. Over the course of 100-plus earlier research articles published on this blog, during 2009 and 2010, it has been sufficiently well established that over 20,000 viable and potentially viable infants are aborted every year by D&E “Dismemberment Abortion” in the 21st through… [Read more…]
February 5, 2011
The domain name www.cccf.wordpress.com is changing (adding) a new primary domain name www.savingviableinfants.com All previous (110) blog posts/articles (archives) will continue to be available through both domain names Readers logging in to cccf.wordpress.com will be redirected to savingviableinfants.com This change/addition is effective February 5, 2011 Reasons for the change/addition: (1) To emphasize the fact that… [Read more…]
February 2, 2011
In early October, 2003 the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Bill was 281 in favor of the Ban, versus 142 opposed to the Ban (137 of the 142 opposed were Democrats). The vote – excluding 12 abstentions – was 66.4% in favor of the Ban Act… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
In 2003 ten (10) Catholic U.S. Senators, and forty (40) Catholic U.S. Representatives were so in favor of the notorious late-term Partial Birth Abortion (D&X) method that they voted against the overwhelmingly successfully-passed Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The Ban Act votes’ passage margins were 64 to 33 in the U.S. Senate and… [Read more…]
January 24, 2011
In past correspondence with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the question was asked if there existed data regarding the reasons given by mothers for their abortions, according to the six periods of gestation format broken down by the CDC in its annual reports “Abortion Surveillance – United States”. Of particular interest to us… [Read more…]
March 18, 2011
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