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How An Ultrasound Helped One Post-Abortive Young Woman Choose Life Leslie was in her late 20s and recently separated from her boyfriend when she found out she was pregnant. When she saw the positive pregnancy test, she scheduled an appointment at the local abortion clinic for the following week. She decided she wasn’t going to tell her boyfriend about the […]
How pregnancy centers help women find post-abortive healing When Erin* walked into Women’s Choice Clinic in Bettendorf, IA this December, she was experiencing daily panic attacks. She had also just discovered she was pregnant. The staff at the clinic could tell she was stressed and downcast and not sure what to do about her recent pregnancy news. Jane**, the client advocate at Women’s Choice, sat […]
Mary saw the bus as she was driving home and decided to turn around and check it out. Without hesitation, she walked up and told us what a blessing we were to the women who might be pregnant in Huntington Beach. She wasn’t pregnant she assured the staff. She just wanted to talk. Horizon Pregnancy […]
Years before my son, I chose abortion. It was my choice. Maybe because of where I was at in life. Maybe because I was too ashamed to carry a child at the time. Maybe because I didn’t know more. I wish I had known more. I knew I wanted abortion, but even more I knew […]
Live Action News–“Although I have found freedom and forgiveness, the regret and grief are lifelong, because my first child deserved life. She deserved to live and have her mother protect her,” Carla says. “And I would give anything to go back there… to save her life and mine. But I can’t.” On September 5, 1990, […]
Live Action News — Rhonda and Richard White authored a pro-life book called “Confronting Abortion Distortions.” One of the authors, Rhonda White, was originally pro-choice. In the book’s preface, she explains why she changed her mind about abortion. It happened after she witnessed an abortion procedure. At the time of her change of heart, White had just graduated […]
When I was 19 I found out I was pregnant. I had been with my boyfriend for about a year. He was living with his parents and I was living with my grandparents. My mom had been living with us for a while but had recently started using heroin again and was back on the […]
Society likes to think they are pro-woman, but from the wage gap to cultural stigmas, I think more and more we are realizing that’s not necessarily true. However, pregnancy resource centers often strive to fight this stigma by truly empowering women. This month, my friend Josh, a 20 something, male, Executive Director at a pregnancy resource […]
Jacqueline reached out to us to share her redemption testimony. She had an abortion and spent years living with regret, pain, and addiction as a result. Then she met Jesus. Now she wants women everywhere to know the freedom, healing, and peace that can be found in Him. Her story is for anyone contemplating abortion […]
Governor Newsom, Proposition 1 will be detrimental to women in California who deserve not shame and discouragement, but support, empowerment and encouragement when facing an unplanned pregnancy. When an ad campaign, paid by California taxpayers, targets women—notably in areas near universities and where minorities reside—you are telling women they are not capable of carrying a […]
The Church’s Role in After–Abortion Recovery By Katie Doryland According to a national study from CareNet, approximately 4 in 10 women who have terminated a pregnancy were churchgoers at the time of their abortion. Additionally, in a study done by the Pew Research Center, “just 4 percent of sermons shared on U.S. church websites in the spring of […]
How One PRC is Flipping the Script on STI Testing, Sexual Health and the Spectrum of Care By Brittany Smith Recently, over the course of one week, Heather Lawless did intakes at her clinic for four women from the University of Idaho. Finally, when the fifth client from the university walked in, she had to ask: “How did you hear about us?” Lawless knew there was a Planned Parenthood just 10 […]
