Replacement Level Birth Rate

FOX NEWS, Feb. 13 — For the first time since 1971, women are bearing enough children to offset deaths in the United States, the National Center for Health Statistics said.

The center reported 4,058,814 births in 2000, the latest year for which figures were available — up 2.5% from 1999. It was the first time since 1993 that births topped 4 million.

Researchers said the roaring economy of the 1990s probably fed the baby craze, with would-be mommies and daddies more comfortable about supporting a family.

The report showed birthrate increases among women of all age groups except teen-agers.

No Miscarriage-Cancer Link

LIFESITE DAILY NEWS, Feb. 14 — Having a miscarriage does not increase a woman's risk of breast cancer at any age, according to one of the largest ever studies, published in the British Journal of Cancer.

The research confirms the writings of Dr. Joel Brind, a world expert on the link between abortion and breast cancer, who noted that miscarriage does not lead to breast cancer as abortion does.

Abortion-Death Website

LIFE DYNAMICS, Feb. 11 — Life Dynamics, a Texas-based pro-life group has created a Website (http://www.lifedynamics.net/AboutLDI/dsp_WomenKilled. cfm) listing women killed by legal abortions, along with information regarding the circumstances of their deaths.

“The Blackmun Wall” project is named after Harry Blackmun, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Roe v. Wade decision.

Consent Cuts Abortions

ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14 — Abortions at two Kentucky abortion facilities decreased dramatically after Kentucky's pro-life informed consent law took effect 11 months ago, the abortion facility's administrator said at a Kentucky state Senate committee hearing.

There were 3,057 abortions performed last year, down from 3,828 the year before, at one facility in Louisville, executive director Dona Wells said.

About a third of the year's total — 1,015 — occurred in the first quarter of 2001. Then the pro-life law took effect, and abortions declined to 714 in the second quarter.

There were audible gasps from the audience, which included both pro-life and abortion advocates, when Wells announced the decrease.

Abortion Ship Loses License

CNSNEWS, Feb. 9 — A Dutch ship which offered abortions at sea for women in countries where abortion is illegal has lost its government license.

Dutch Health minister Els Borst has refused to issue a permit to the converted fishing trawler over safety fears.

Dutch government health inspectors were unable to regularly visit the ship and ensure standards were adequate.