The Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a warning that women are at risk for mental health breakdowns if they have an abortion. The Times of London reports that this professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has recommended that abortion information that’s distributed should be updated to include details of the risks of depression. “Consent cannot be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information,” the group said.

Meanwhile, the British Parliament will soon vote on a proposed reduction on the number of weeks into a pregnancy a woman can have an abortion from 24 to 20 weeks.

Stateside, Planned Parenthood’s eugenic and racist roots are showing in Idaho, thanks to a UCLA pro-life student magazine, The Advocate.

It’s happened only once in the NFL, when the 1972 Miami Dolphins, coached by Don Shula and led by the running of Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris along with the always tough “No-Name Defense,” defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII.

In NCAA men’s basketball, it’s been accomplished by seven teams, the last time back in 1976, when the Indiana Hoosiers, led by coach Bobby Knight and the trio of Scott May, Kent Benson, and Quinn Buckner, took care of Big Ten rival Michigan in the NCAA tournament championship game. (The other six were San Francisco in 1956, North Carolina in ’57, and John Wooden’s UCLA teams in ’64, ’67, ’72, and ’73.)

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