WASHINGTON, DC -The 18th annual National Memorial for the Pre-Born and Their Mothers and Fathers will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 23 in Room HVC 201 of the Capitol Visitors Center.
The National Pro-Life Religious Council (NPRC) will present its annual Pro-Life Recognition Award to Chris Slattery, founder of EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers, and Karolyn Schrage, executive director of Life Choices in Joplin, Mo.Kelly Clinger, a recording artist and spokeswoman for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and Tony Melendez, a guitar player who was born without arms and plays with his feet, will perform.
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“Today marks the 39th anniversary of one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history, when the court in Roe v. Wade claimed authority over the fundamental question regarding the rights of the unborn. The result is millions of lives since that day have been tragically silenced. Since that day, the pro-life movement has been working tirelessly in an effort to change hearts and minds and protect the weakest and most vulnerable among us. Today, we recommit ourselves to reversing that decision, for in the quiet of conscience, people of both political parties know that more than a million abortions a year cannot be squared with the good heart of America.”
Life Matters published a website which displays a real-time counter of the number of abortions occurring worldwide and in the United States. The numbers are staggering. In just over four days in 2012 there have already been over 14,000 unborn babies aborted in the U.S. alone – and over 485,000 worldwide.
“The eleven abortion counters include: number of abortions in the US today, number of abortions in the US since Roe versus Wade (1973), number of abortions in the US this year, number of abortions in the US this year due to rape or incest, number of abortions in the US this year after 16 weeks gestation, number of abortions by Planned Parenthood since 1970, and the number of aborions by planned Parenthood this year, number of abortions worldwide since 1980, number of abortions worldwide this year, and number of abortions worldwide today.”
WASHINGTON, DC (C-FAM) - It did not take long for a new study finding a link between abortion and mental health to spark unfounded criticism of the paper and attacks against the author.
The prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP) recently published “Abortion and Mental Health: Quantitative Synthesis and Analysis of Research Published 1995-2009.” The paper, a culmination of Dr. Priscilla Coleman’s extensive experience in the field of abortion and mental health, finds that women who have undergone abortion have an 81% increase in the risk of mental health problems, and an even greater risk for substance misuse and suicidal behaviour (230% and 155% respectively). Nearly 10% of the incidence of all mental health problems was shown to be directly attributable to abortion.
Citizens for a Pro-life Society announces a new website: imagesofabortion.com, strictly dedicated to photography of unborn children killed by legalized abortion. The purpose of the site is to serve as a resource tool for pro-lifers, as well as an educational tool for the general public—a website that reveals the reality of abortion through actual images of unborn children.
The site is controversial, hard-hitting and disturbing. The over 350 photos depict unborn children killed in suction, dialation and evacuation, prostaglandin and saline abortions. The majority of the unborn children were retrieved from abortion clinic trash dumpsters in Illinois and Michigan, often by members of CPLS—or came from pathology labs at various hospitals in those states and Wisconsin between 1987 and 2010. All of these victims were given humane burials. The unborn babies range in age from 6 weeks to 7 months gestation. Videos of the retrievals, as well as videos of the burials of these aborted babies are also available on the site.
NEW YORK, NY (C-FAM) It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws. Just last month the UN Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report making this claim. The Secretary General endorsed his report. Shortly thereafter the UN High Commission on Human Rights said the same thing.
Pro-life activists have been saying for years that this is a false assertion. Even so, some governments have started to listen and to liberalize their laws. The High Court of Colombia changed their abortion laws based on these assertions from a UN committee. Two judges on the Mexican High Court have made these assertions also.
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Photo: Walk for Life West Coast, credit Jose Aguirre
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - On January 21, 2012, tens of thousands of pro-life activists massed in front of San Francisco's City Hall and then filled the city's main thoroughfare, walking about two miles down Market Street to the Embarcadero.
Banging drums, playing guitars and chanting "We are pro-life," the enthusiastic throngs filled Market Street and stopped all traffic for more than a mile. Organizers estimated more than 40,000 attended the Walk.
"We are here to say life is the choice and women are hurt by abortion," said Dolores Meehan, co-chair of the Walk for Life West Coast, which is held on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.
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"EEN is a pro-life organization dedicated to the opposition of abortion in all its forms, and to the degradation of human life. We believe standing up for the unborn and protecting our children from toxins like mercury is biblically pro-life and whole gospel," says the Rev. Mitch Hescox, President of the Evangelical Environmental Network.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - This January, Focus on the Family is marking the observance of Sanctity of Human Life Month as well as announcing its yearlong efforts to promote the dignity of human life.
Focus’ Be a Voice for Life Campaign seeks to educate people about the inherent value and God-given worth of all human beings from the beginning of life in the womb to natural death – and at every point in between.
The ministry is breaking
down
its 2012 campaign into four quarters, with the first quarter
focusing on preborn babies.
NEW YORK, NY (C-FAM) - For decades, a basic tenet of the international population-control lobby has been that declining fertility rates will generate a more stable international order. But according to an impressive panel of scholars who have contributed to a new book, this scenario of “geriatric peace” is untenably optimistic.
Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics is a collection of nine research essays, published by Potomac Books and edited by C-FAM senior vice president Susan Yoshihara and C-FAM senior fellow Douglas Sylva. In the book’s foreword, demographer and political economist Nicholas Eberstadt applauds its contributors for tackling the “profound and as-yet unanswered questions” associated with population decline and international politics.
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Executive Pastor Wayne Jackson Abundant Life Christian Fellowship and Dr. Bruce Wilkinson speaker at the event (Free Lance Photography: Richard Neff)
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SAN JOSE, CA - On the evening of Thursday, October 13th, 2011 RealOptions Pregnancy Medical Clinics celebrated 30 years of serving Santa Clara County, California.
Executive Pastor Wayne Jackson graciously opened Abundant Life Christian Fellowship's doors to over 432 registered guests representing more than 64 different churches and denominations.
RealOptions Pregnancy Medical Clinics is recognized as a leading pro-life service organization in Santa Clara County dedicated to supporting a culture of life.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Focus on the Family set the record straight today on ultrasound statistics reported in the media and used by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
On Oct. 6, Congressman Bachman introduced a pro-life bill requiring abortion providers to make a preborn child’s heartbeat audible and visible to mothers considering abortion. Bachman mentioned a Focus “study” showing 78 percent of women who see and hear the fetal heartbeat choose life for their child among the reasons why she introduced the bill.
Unfortunately, that data — released by Focus on the Family in 2008 — isn’t completely accurate.
New award-winning
documentary is changing minds and saving livesDALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX — What would you do if…? Thus begins the question being asked by author and film producer Ray Comfort in his new documentary,180. Titled to reflect the complete turnaround in the mindsets of all to whom the question is posed, the award-winning film shows eight pro-choice people (mostly college students) changing their stance to pro-life just moments after the question is asked in its entirety. It is Comfort’s hope that the documentary, releasing online September 26th, will go viral.
While skeptics of 180 (Living Waters Publications) say they can’t believe anyone would change his or her mind so quickly, Comfort accepts and even understands their disbelief, stating that he could hardly believe it himself when he first viewed the footage in the editing room.
