This page was inspired by the Priests For Life webpage. I would like to embed "The Icicle Melts" by The Cranberries for you to listen to at this webpage, but I don't have their permission to upload the song (and haven't yet asked). You can listen to it on YouTube (as of 12 Feb 2011), though.
Any woman who is pregnant and in need can turn for help to the pro-life movement. She never has to feel that abortion is the only option. People anywhere in the country can find assistance through these helpful phone numbers:
Organizations also have information available online. For example, the United States Department of Agriculture has a program called Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that provides information and food for low-income pregnant and postpartum women.
We who reject abortion do not reject those who have had abortions. Counseling, forgiveness, and healing can be found after abortion, and the following numbers can lead you to assistance:
See the Silent No More Awareness Campaign for more information.
At the Priests for Life website, you may find facts about abortion and what you can do to stop it. You will be able to listen to talks by its director, Fr. Frank Pavone, and hear from many other leaders as well.
In particular, you will be able to see what abortion looks like. Although abortion is the most common surgery in America, most people never see what it looks like. The hearts and minds of most people who see it are changed forever. See for yourself!
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, in 2005, 1.21 million abortions took place in the United States. (The U.S. Census Bureau's July 2009 USA population estimate is about 307 million.) Some 42,350 of these occurred on women who were 16 to 20 weeks pregnant; over 13,310 occurred on women who were 21 weeks or more into their pregnancy. According to CDC government data, over 64,000 abortions in a year are performed on women who had had three or more previous abortions.
From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred in our country.
Abortions are done mostly for non-medical reasons. As the abortion industry itself admits on the website of the Alan Guttmacher Institute,
[T]hree-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.
As the University of Detroit Law Review points out, The Supreme Court's decisions ...
allowed abortion on demand throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy
(Paul B. Linton,
Enforcement of State Abortion Statutes after Roe: A State-by-State Analysis, Vol. 67, Issue 2,
Winter 1990).
— Ron Fitzsimmons, Executive Director, National Coalition of Abortion Providers, New York Times, 26 February 1997[...] The abortion-rights folks know it, the anti-abortion folks know it, and so probably, does everyone else. One of the facts of abortion is that women enter abortion clinics to kill their fetuses. It is a form of killing [...] you're ending a life.
— Planned Parenthood v. AshcroftI will then, while holding on to the fetus [...] try and ease those parts through the cervix [...] The fetus will either continue to come or will begin to break apart. It will break apart wherever or whatever it is. It may be in the middle of the leg, it may be at the abdomen, it may be at the chest[...]
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