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The disturbing video below from the stalwarts at Pro-Life Wisconsin blew up when it was posted to HotAir.com yesterday. Take a look:
On Monday I received a call from Pro-Life Wisconsin looking for help acquiring the 911 call audio of this incident from the city. If they’re successful in obtaining that, I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about what happened to the poor woman in the ambulance soon. [Continue reading ...]
Today I ran across an interesting article on a “mommy blog” called The Stir that contained a confession from a woman who regretted her abortion because of a consequence she never could have foreseen—her abortion at 17 was keeping her from bonding with her new baby. In her own words:
Ten years ago, when I was 17, I had an abortion. I had just been accepted at a good university, was working hard to earn money to afford it, and had just broken up with my boyfriend. It was a horrible time to have a baby. So my mother took me to the clinic.
I know it was the right thing to do. I have since finished college and graduate school. I have a great career and married a man with a great career, and we have plenty of money, a beautiful home, and now have a daughter who is 2 months old.
But I can’t stop thinking about my first pregnancy. What might she (I assume it was a she) have looked like? She would be 10 now. It’s affecting my ability to bond with the baby who is here.—Anonymous
Our culture of death and the abortion industry sold this girl a bill of goods about her abortion. She was told it would be no big deal and would have no long-term consequences. What’s worse, it sounds like she may have been pressured into the abortion with the old, “You’ll ruin your life if you don’t have this abortion” schtick. [Continue reading ...]
Last April, League staffer Matt Yonke and I were praying out at the notorious Planned Parenthood abortion center in Aurora, Illinois when an ambulance went into the parking lot to transport a woman to the emergency room. We acquired the 911 audio through a FOIA request, and produced a video to document it.
Since then, we’ve collected a growing list of similar videos, with pro-lifers across the country documenting 911 calls, ambulance transports and other medical emergencies at abortion facilities.
Thanks to the dedicated presence of pro-life activists right on the front lines outside America’s abortion facilities, the danger that abortion poses for women is being exposed.
Matt and I have put together a new playlist of the abortion emergency videos we’ve found up until now:
This playlist includes 17 videos so far, and there are many more out there to add. If you know of an abortion emergency video that should be included in this playlist, please provide a link in the comments section.
Meanwhile, make sure that you’ve got a camera (preferably a video camera) with you whenever you go out to pray or sidewalk counsel at an abortion facility. If you see an ambulance, take pictures and shoot video.
The League can help you get the 911 transcript, too, and even help you put together your own video, documenting the danger of abortion. Get in touch with us if you need help.
On Friday, as I stood at the Face the Truth staging area at our site near a Taco Bell at 79th and Stony Island Avenue on Chicago’s South Side, a young woman drove up and asked to buy one of our red Truth Tour shirts. She then sat in her car eating her lunch.
About 20 minutes later, this young woman rolled down her window and asked if we had any information about counseling after an abortion. I brought her a Project Rachel card [PDF] with the number 800-848-LOVE for post-abortion counseling.
She then told me that looking at the pictures of the aborted babies is very hard. And she told me it brought back to the forefront her own abortion over 20 years ago. She talked about the fact that she knew it was wrong. She had repented and she believed that God had forgiven her. But still she felt the need to talk to someone about her own personal experience. [Continue reading ...]
A terribly sad letter that ran in Salon’s advice column this weekend really throws a spanner in the works of the pro-choice dogma that post-abortion aftermath is a myth concocted by pro-lifers.
The letter writer, who calls herself “Crushed With Regret” and who identifies herself as “a liberal woman and as pro-choice as you can be,” had an abortion in December 2010, and says the experience “has haunted me ever since.”
The baby’s father — her on-again, off-again boyfriend for the previous four years — dropped her off at the abortion clinic that day and told her, “Don’t worry, I’ll be back,” but never did come back.
Crushed With Regret admits that she has nightmares about her abortion, and things don’t get any better for her during the day:
I wish I could forgive myself and move on, but I just can’t. I wake up every morning and it is the best minute of my life before the knowledge of what happened returns to me and the cycle of sadness and regret begins all over again.
She ends by asking for advice on how to move on and free herself from the “unending cycle of regret.” [Continue reading ...]
Sometimes a movie is about abortion and we miss the reference. (Take this pro-abort’s post about Dirty Dancing for instance—I, too, admit to missing the deeper message the first dozen times I saw the movie.) Sometimes a movie glorifies the “pro-choice” side. And sometimes it communicates a pro-life message.
This past weekend I saw All Good Things, a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
I caught both the abortion and its aftermath loud and clear. I wonder if all viewers noticed it and made the connection between the abortion and the destruction of the relationship… [Continue reading ...]
Yesterday I asked this question to our friends on the League’s Facebook page:
The question came up in response to an article I read about Tim Pawlenty, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. Pawlenty was asked by a reporter “what the penalty should be for women who have abortions and doctors who perform abortions if his stance on overturning legal abortion prevails.”
Pawlenty answered:
I don’t think we want to make it a criminal sanction but I think there should be some kind of penalty or consequence, but we don’t have a specific proposal as to what that would be.
Yesterday, Psychiatric Times released a short video of Dr. Nada Stotland — a former APA president and former board member of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health — explaining why she believes there’s no direct link between abortion and psychiatric illness:
Her central claim comes at the 0:30 mark, when she says, “The fact is that there’s no good evidence that induced abortion causes psychiatric illness in any meaningful numbers.”
Really? [Continue reading ...]
Referring to a new study conducted in California on maternal mortality, an article by Mother Jones‘ editorial coordinator Jen Phillips begins with this sentence:
Despite what the protesters at your local Planned Parenthood may say, abortion is not unsafe.
You can guess where the article goes from there…downhill.
Although the study itself [pdf] makes no mention of abortion, Philips uses it as an opportunity to try to make abortion look safe. She continues:
In fact, you’re about 20 times more likely to die from childbirth-related ailments than you are from getting an abortion.
In the Catholic liturgical calendar, the Gospel reading for today is the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11).
One thing I find amazing about this Gospel passage is that it almost didn’t make it into the Bible. In fact, before the canon of Scripture was finalized in the late 4th century, some copies of St. John’s Gospel didn’t include this story.
St. Augustine tells us (cf. De coniugiis adulterinis, 2, 6) that many early Christians were afraid of keeping this story in John’s Gospel since it showed Jesus as being so merciful that they thought it might lead people to think that the reality of sin wasn’t as serious as the Church made it out to be.