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Our focus is to protect the sanctity of all human life from conception until natural death. This includes protecting babies from abortion, fetal tissue experimentation, and embryonic research; and the general population from euthanasia, cloning, population control and human genetic engineering.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Scientists Discuss Relationship Between Abortion and Violence Against Women
New York, March 8th 2013 – Scientists of the United States of America,
Ireland, and Chile met this week in New York to discuss recent
scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence
against women and girls. Indiscriminate practice of abortion is
significantly correlated with coercion, a history of sexual abuse,
violence during pregnancy, intimate partner violence, and with
psychological consequences that may lead to suicide.
The scientific evidence was discussed by Doctors Monique Chireau
(North Carolina, USA), Donna Harrison (Illinois, USA), Eoghan de Faoite
(Dublin, Ireland), and Elard Koch (Concepción, Chile). The meeting
“Public Policies to reduce maternal mortality, a holistic focus on
maternal health” took place in parallel to the 57th Session of the
Commission of Women Status of the United Nations, whose priority theme
is the “elimination and prevention of all types of violence against
women and girls”, activity that will go on until March 15th.
The scientists discussed different epidemiological studies, showing that:
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