By Dave Andrusko A story in Thursday’s Washington Post offered the encouraging news that “Spread of Zika virus appears to be slowing in parts of Latin America.” According to reporter Nick Miroff, In several Latin American nations hit hard by the Zika epidemic, the...
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Abortion is Never the Answer for Pregnant Women with Zika
New Study Finds that Less than 1 percent of Zika Infections During Pregnancy Lead to Microcephaly By Jonathan Abbamonte and Steven W. Mosher, Population Research Institute Abortion advocates have attempted to lobby and shame pro-life Latin American countries into...
Strong majority of Brazilians reject abortion for women infected with Zika virus
By Dave Andrusko Brazil is, if not the epicenter of the Zika virus, certainly a country with more than its fair share of exposure to the virus which has been associated with, but not proven to cause microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with undersized...
Brazilians against loosening protective abortion laws, resisting pressure to change in light of Zika virus
By Dave Andrusko In spite of an onslaught of international pressure, 51% of Brazilians (in the Associated Press’s words) “are against loosening Brazil's strict anti-abortion laws even when microcephaly has been confirmed. Only 39 percent agree with a change in the law...
USA House Members Send Letter to Top UN Human Rights Official, ‘Abortion is Not the Answer to Zika’
Editor’s note. This appeared on the webpage of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI). 50 Members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter initiated by Congressman Blake Farenthold (R-Tx.) to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Abortion never a “solution” to the Zika virus
By Dave Andrusko You may have heard a few words here and there about an exchange between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. But you would have to go to sites such as the Catholic News Association and EWTN to get the full flavor of the Pontiff’s passionate comments about a...
Zika: still wrapped in mystery
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. The following is excerpted from a post at bioedge.org and is reprinted with permission. A week of confusing information about the Zika virus epidemic, which the World Health Organization has described as a “Public Health Emergency of...
Pro-abortionists and the Zika virus: never let a crisis, real or unproven, go to waste
By Dave Andrusko You could almost feel the surge of exhilaration in the story that ran in the Washington Post under the headline, “Zika prompts urgent debate about abortion in Latin America.” There you have it. All those stubborn Latin American countries with their...
The wrong solution to Zika-caused microcephaly
Activists are trying to spook governments into allowing abortion. Don't do it, says a woman with the condition. By Michael Cook The World Health Organization has warned that 4 million people in Latin America could be infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus before...
Standing against using Zika virus as a reason to tear down protective abortion laws
By Dave Andrusko There is nothing--nothing wonderful, nothing tragic, and nothing in-between--that the Abortion Lobby will not attempt to exploit to further its ever-expanding death agenda. By now we probably all know that the Zika virus is spread by a particular...