Whatever your position on abortion, we should all be able to agree that women deserve excellent, evidence-based healthcare. Despite the fact that today’s ruling allows the FDA’s reckless actions to continue for now, nothing changes the fact that the FDA’s own label for these abortion drugs says that roughly one in 25 women who take […]
The OB-GYN hospitalist pushed back against the common narrative that pro-life laws prevent physicians from offering lifesaving healthcare to women facing pregnancy complications. On June 4, 2024, AAPLOG CEO and board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Christina Francis presented expert testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions during their hearing titled “The Assault
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The medical professional organization will utilize this grant to fund the production of an online course about reversing the abortive effects of the abortion drug mifepristone. (WASHINGTON, DC) May 20, 2024 – Today, the Heritage Foundation announced its decision to award the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) one of their annual Heritage Innovation Prizes. AAPLOG
“As physicians who have provided care for families like the Coxes who received difficult diagnoses for their preborn children, our hearts go out to them for what they have been through. Families in this situation deserve accurate information about their child’s diagnosis – that pregnancies with potentially life-limiting fetal diagnoses can be carried to term
The Fifth Circuit ruling in Texas v. Becerra allows physicians to continue to provide life-affirming care to patients. In an abuse of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), the Biden Administration previously attempted to force physicians to perform induced abortions in violation of their oath they took to never intentionally harm their patients. Induced abortion,
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Women and all patients should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs. But the FDA abandoned its own safety standards and the health of women and girls when it allowed mail-order abortions. This means that women now perform their own abortions at home alone without ever having seen a medical professional.
Responding to the Campaign to Ban Reversal of Mifepristone in Colorado Efforts by abortion proponents to outlaw progesterone therapy after mifepristone consumption are not based on science or good medical ethics. Summary The state of Colorado recently passed into law a bill that would ban medical professionals from presenting progesterone therapy to patients as an
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A victory for our patients. Over the past two decades, the FDA has repeatedly removed necessary safeguards on the chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. These deregulations have placed women and girls at greater risk of life-threatening complications, as well as coerced abortion by abusers and traffickers. Today’s ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
The baseless narrative that the U.S.’s poor maternal health is attributable to abortion regulations only serves to harm women. Several weeks ago, we responded to these claims by abortion advocates on social media, refuting them and calling attention to the factors that actually contribute to the maternal mortality crisis in this country. Yet this narrative attempting to connect the 2021 surge in
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Life-affirming medical professionals share the objective of promoting optimal healthcare for both pregnant women and preborn children. To achieve this goal, it is essential that we use precise, medically accurate language to describe the pregnancy-related practices which intentionally harm our patients. It is especially necessary to distinguish these practices from medical interventions that separate a
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