Caitlyn Dixson graduated from college a year early with a double major. For the past six months, she has served as the executive director of Iowa Right to Life where she has utilized her political experience to lobby at the capitol for pro-life laws. These would be impressive feats for anyone, but for Dixson, she…
The new Public Health Law of New York has the country talking. Some celebrate the new abortion laws while others reel in shock. The bill states its purpose to “…recognize a woman’s fundamental right to access safe, legal abortion.” This law also allows for abortions at “any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life…
When the March for Life gets closer each year we “go deep” within ourselves to answer a very personal question. WHY WE MARCH? After 46 years of “Marching for Life” we know we have definitely “build a pro-life movement”. Thanks to Organizations like Save the Storks, we can tangibly see how their marketing and graphic…
Kayley was 23. Her brother had recently passed away unexpectedly, the relationship she was in was falling apart, and having a child was the last thing on her mind. “The immediate shock of looking at a pregnancy test and seeing that it’s positive is, this has to be a mistake,” she says. “There’s no way.”…
Our affiliates across the nation share story after story of how they help their clients. Few women simply receive a pregnancy confirmation and leave, never to be heard from again. Pregnancy Center staff deeply care for the women they serve, no matter what the pregnancy decisions may be. Here is counselling room where parenting classes are…
For 40 years I have carried a heavy heart and regret with every breath my decision to end your precious life. I was afraid, I was selfish, I have been in turmoil my entire life. -Anonymous; AbortionMemorial.com Christian Churches are filled with men and women who have experienced abortion. For some, it has been…
Much has been written and discussed concerning the Millennial generation and, no doubt, this trend will only continue as this generation continues to age. Historians will, likely, attempt to dissect our supposed need for safe spaces, our everyone receives a trophy mindset, and our penchant for unrest and bucking authority. I will not attempt, here,…
“It’s a woman’s issue.” “My body, my choice.” “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.” “Pro-choice, the radical idea that women are people.” These are just some slogans found or chanted at pro-choice demonstrations. Save the Storks believes that all lives matter in the conversation of life….
Have you ever felt like you should call a pre-natal baby a fetus or an embryo, or maybe even a zygote, because if you called him or her a baby, that might just be too controversial? It’s as though talking about what happens in the womb is somehow off limits, because it makes pre-natal children…
Giving Tuesday 2018 Today we announced details about our 2018 Giving Tuesday campaign! Our goal is to raise $90,000 and we know we can reach this with the support of you, our Stork Superheroes. 100% of funds raised up to the goal amount will go towards grants for Stork Buses in 2019 and 2020. Stork Superheroes are…
The Compassion Care Center Mobile crew parks in front of the abortion clinic. Their blessing bags with information and goodies are ready to be given to any woman who wants one. It’s a very busy morning for the abortion clinic, women kept the door rotating throughout the morning. No one responds to the invitations for…
Police Officer Jesse Whitten and wife Ashley, former Save the Storks team members, share their personal testimony of connecting with a homeless woman and later adopting her baby. Harlow Whitten has a safe place to call home because of her new parents. Jesse and Ashley Whitten adopted their six-month-old daughter after befriending Harlow’s biological mother…
When Planned Parenthood moved into Bettendorf, Iowa, offering abortions to the community, fervent prayer warriors fasted and prayed for three weeks in a little trailer on property directly across from the abortion clinic. In 2002, Bettendorf welcomed its first pregnancy help medical clinic, the Women’s Choice Center. This clinic was built exactly where those women…
“I’d like to share something that I’ve never told anyone before.” Nearly every time I speak at a church, someone approaches me after the service with some variation of that statement, followed by the story of their abortion. After I shared on a recent Sunday morning, a woman old enough to be my grandmother stepped…
Live Action – For many mothers, ultrasounds are an exciting window into the womb, a glimpse of the life growing inside of them. But for one mom, she had no idea how prescient that photo would be. South Carolina mom Sarah Kelleher Steppling originally didn’t want to get a boutique ultrasound, but her mother and grandmother…
Live Action News – Rita was a young, student nurse working in a London hospital in the 1970s. She describes herself as an “Irish country girl” who did not know what she would be expected to do in her training. When she was required to care for a woman undergoing an abortion, she was confused and…
Live Action News – Last December, rapper Eminem released a new album, “Revival.” The first single, titled “River,” has received heavy airplay on radios and is currently rising on the Billboard charts. But the song has gained notoriety because of its heavy subject matter: abortion. The lyrics not only discuss abortion, but show deep regret and pain, in…
Seven years ago this fall, Lauren Urrea felt her world was crashing into a million pieces as she faced the undeniable, yet somehow unbelievable, reality that she was pregnant. For the first time in her life, Lauren found herself questioning—even if for a brief moment—her most foundational beliefs about God, family, career and most importantly,…
“Watching you as a father to our kids is the first time I’m really seeing what fatherhood looks like.” I remember feeling the weight of my wife’s words when she told me that. It was the same feeling I got when I realized that I was taking our first daughter home from the hospital: How…