Analyzing the Effects of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion...
In understanding why the number of legal abortions declined by 17.4percent between 1990 and 1999, it is significant that, by the endof the decade, more states had adopted parental...
View ArticlePro-Life Policy: Does It Make a Difference?
Pro-life policies reduce abortion rates. This surprises some.
View ArticleUsing Natural Experiments to Analyze the Impact of State Legislation on the...
During the 2004 election, there was a substantial amount ofdiscussion about whether or not "pro-life" legislation effectivelyreduces the incidence of abortion. Some religious leaders andpolitical...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Pro-Life Laws Save Lives
Unanimous verdicts by the Supreme Court are rare. Yet, last week, we witnessed one -- and in an abortion case, no less.
View ArticleA Lesson in Data and Analysis for the New York Times
The paper publishes an analysis of abortion incidence that's moreflimsy than the paper its printed on.
View ArticleGetting It Wrong: How The New York Times Misinterprets AbortionStatistics and...
In a front-page article on March 6, 2006, The New York Timesattempts to make the case that parental involvement laws areineffective. However, better data, better analysis, and a morethorough reporting...
View ArticleAnalyzing the Effect of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion Among...
Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of minor abortion rates fromover 40 states over a span of 15 years indicates that parentalinvolvement legislation and other types of pro-life laws arecorrelated with...
View ArticleConscience Protections Guard Civility
One spring morning in 2009, Catherine Cenzon-DeCarlo arrived at the job she loves at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. By the time the nurse’s shift was over, though, her peace was shattered.
View ArticleViolence Against Women Act: Reauthorization Fundamentally Flawed
Simply expanding the VAWA framework with extensive new provisions and programs that have been inadequately assessed is sure to facilitate waste, fraud, and abuse and will not better protect women or...
View ArticleThe Horror Behind Chen’s Great Escape
It has all the makings of a spellbinding screenplay: A blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, outwits a communist regime’s thugs to escape house arrest and seek sanctuary in the U.S. embassy in...
View ArticleGive the Girl a Chance—at Life
For more than a generation, Americans have aggressively sought to guarantee girls every opportunity in the world.
View ArticleGive the Girls a Chance
Opponents of the House bill banning sex-selective abortion argued that instead of changing the law to protect unborn girls from extermination simply because they are girls, we should work to promote a...
View ArticleHeritage in Focus: 40 Years of Abortion
Research Associate Sarah Torre joins Heritage in Focus to discuss the 40th year of legal abortion in the United States under one of the most hotly-contested Supreme Court cases in U.S. history - Roe v....
View ArticleSen. Wendy Davis’ Filibuster: DeMint on Meet The Press
Heritage President Jim DeMint discusses Sen. Wendy Davis (D-TX) and her efforts to secure legal abortions after 20 weeks on MSNBC's 'Meet The Press'.
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