Pro-life TV ad cut abortions at clinic by almost half

Pro-life TV ad cut abortions at clinic by almost half: former Planned Parenthood director | LifeSiteNews.com: Abby Johnson described the impact of one pro-life television advertisement campaign that criticized her own Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas. Everyone working at the clinic, she says, had seen the ad - and apparently, so had many women who might have had abortions there. “Our numbers declined almost 50 percent while that campaign was running,” said Johnson. “Why? Because pro-life media works.”

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NARAL President Nancy Keenan to step down

Exclusive: NARAL President Nancy Keenan to step down - The Washington Post: At the end of this year, Nancy Keenan will step down from her post as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country’s oldest abortion-rights advocacy group. The 60-year-old Keenan said she is leaving out of concern for the future of the pro-choice movement — and thinks she could be holding it back.

In recent years, Keenan has worried about an “intensity gap” on abortion rights among millennials, which the group considers to be the generation of Americans born between 1980 and 1991. While most young, antiabortion voters see abortion as a crucial political issue, NARAL’s own internal research does not find similar passion among abortion-rights supporters.


Related: Young pro-lifers vow to give up something they enjoy Until Abortion Ends

IUDs Touted as Emergency Contraception

Medical News: IUDs Effective as Emergency Contraception - in OB/Gyn, Pregnancy from MedPage Today: In a review of 35 years of data in which IUDs were inserted after unprotected intercourse, 99.86% of overall women did not become pregnant, reported Kelly Cleland, a research scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey, and colleagues in Human Reproduction.

How it works: According to FamilyDoctor.org, "Unlike the morning-after pill, an IUD doesn't stop your ovaries from releasing an egg. The IUD can prevent an egg from being fertilized and it can stop a fertilized egg from attaching itself to the wall of the uterus."

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Physicians Underestimate Patient Pain from IUD Insertion

Physicians Underestimate Patient Pain from IUD Insertion : OBGYN News: The pain that accompanies IUD insertion may be a barrier to wider use of IUDs.

Related: IUDs Effective as Emergency Contraception

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Maternal Age, Obesity Associated With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Maternal Age, Obesity Associated With Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes : OBGYN News: Although women who delay pregnancy to age 40 years and older face an increased risk for adverse outcomes, reducing prepregnancy body mass index may reduce their risk for cesarean delivery, gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension/preeclampsia, and preterm delivery, results from a large study demonstrated.

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Success that Exceeds Sanctification

Success that Exceeds Sanctification | Challies Dot Com: A thought which became a prayer: Do not allow me success that exceeds my sanctification. . . . In any area of life or vocation in which I am prone to envy, an area that will be all tangled up in my pride, great success might just crush me. And so I ask God, please don’t give me success that exceeds my sanctification.

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Guttmacher Study Claims Women Confident of Abortion Decision

Biased Guttmacher Study Claims Women Confident of Abortion Decision | LifeNews.com: In the June publication of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, pro-abortion researchers argue that laws requiring that women be given pertinent information before choosing abortion are unnecessary. "Attitudes and Decision Making Among Women Seeking Abortions at One U.S. Clinic" contains major flaws: it studies only one abortion clinic; it does not mention the state in which that clinic does business; and it does not indicate whether that state has any informed consent laws.

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What's Planned Parenthood afraid of?

FRANZONELLO: What's Planned Parenthood afraid of? - Washington Times: Being ‘nonjudgmental’ about sex-selection abortion won’t go over well.

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Guttmacher Institute Misleads on Why Teen Births Declined

Guttmacher Institute Misleads on Why Teen Births Declined | LifeNews.com: They cite data from a recent National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). It shows increases in the percentage of teens using various contraceptive methods, with no corresponding decline in the percentage of teens who are sexually active.

However, the Guttmacher analysts overstate their case. First, the Guttmacher analysts make no mention of the fact that the NSFG data also show that the percentage of teens trying to get pregnant declined as well during this time period. Additionally, even though the NSFG data show that the percentage of sexually active teens increased slightly, it fails to analyze the frequency of teen sexual activity.

Finally, the CDC report contains no data on the teen abortion rate. It is possible a short-term increase in the teen abortion rate might be responsible for the reduction in the teen birthrate.

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Millennials, Christianity, and Culture

FRC Blog » Millennials, Christianity, and Culture: The ideological division among Millennials should come as no surprise. Many of them were raised without fathers and in non-religious homes. They were educated in public schools that taught tolerance as the supreme and integrating virtue, although concurrently they were taught not to extend such to those who believe in revealed and unbending truth. In such classrooms, right and wrong exist only as cultural-linguistic artifacts of an unenlightened era.

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Sordid History of Kansas Abortion Clinic Places Urgency on Demands for Enforcement

Sordid History of Kansas Abortion Clinic Places Urgency on Demands for Enforcement :Operation Rescue: Revelations that the Central Family Medical abortion clinic in Kansas City may be breaking the law by failing to report incidents of suspected abuse are only the latest in a long and sordid history of patient injuries, sloppy practices, dirty conditions, and disciplinary action that the clinic has experienced over its years of operation.

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I am a survivor: born into addiction and poverty, but grateful to be alive

I am a survivor: born into addiction and poverty, but grateful to be alive | LifeSiteNews.com: Oftentimes, pro-choice supporters make statements like, “You do not know what it is like to grow up in poverty or with alcoholic parents,” or “No child would want to be born into poverty or into a family of alcoholics.” Well, I have lived that life, and, I must admit, if given the choice of having a family with money and no addiction versus the life I had, I would probably choose the first option. But, if given the choice between the life I had and that of a death sentence, I would choose the life I had.

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Toronto Star profiles pro-lifers’ ‘slick, youthful rebranding’

Toronto Star profiles pro-lifers’ ‘slick, youthful rebranding’ ahead of March for Life | LifeSiteNews.com: As thousands of Canadians flock to Thursday’s National March for Life on Parliament Hill, Canada’s largest newspaper has profiled the pro-life movement’s “slick, youthful rebranding” in a rare positive piece.

“They will fight to protect the unborn, raise their voices against abortion in Canada — and maybe win an iPod,” begins the Tuesday piece in the Toronto Star, written by staff reporter Wendy Gillis.

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A ground-breaking abortion study from Chile

A ground-breaking abortion study from Chile | LifeSiteNews.com: A groundbreaking study of abortion in Chile published last week in the scientific journal PLoS One found that illegal abortion is not associated with maternal mortality. At a time when access to legal abortion is deemed absolutely necessary for women’s health, this shatters long-standing assumptions. In this exclusive interview, Dr Elard S. Koch, the lead author of the study, defends his findings.

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Growing a Friend to be a Friend of the Ministry

Here-4-You Consulting » Growing a Friend to be a Friend of the Ministry: Here are some ways to cultivate a friend-of-the-ministry relationship that springs from an existing friendship or relationship. This is addressed in three phases: before any gift, growing smaller gifts to larger giving, and maintaining a friend of the ministry.

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Get to Know: Relationships Under Construction

Curriculum: Relationships Under Construction, RUC, is written to be part of a community-based abstinence program that is multi-faceted. RUC can stand alone but is even more effective when a community-based plan is implemented.

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Former abortionist talks about his experiences

Med Students for Life 2012 National Spring Tour on Vimeo: Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist and now pro-life OB/GYN, speaks on the 2012 Med SFLA National Spring Tour about his experience performing abortions, conscience rights for physicians, and the negative affects of abortion on women.

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The Stubborn Biological Facts regarding the Abortion-Breast Cancer link

The Stubborn Biological Facts regarding the Abortion-Breast Cancer link (ABC link) | NRL News Today: By Joel Brind, Ph.D.

In the three previous installments of this series, I documented the epidemiological evidence for the abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link), and the ongoing wall of denial from the official purveyors of public health information, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this final installment, I’ll go over the basic, underlying biology of how and why abortion interferes with normal breast development and breast health, thus leading to a higher risk of breast cancer later in life for women who have chosen abortion.

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Late-term healthy twins counted as ‘severe fetal anomaly’ for abortionist Tiller: former prosecutor

Late-term healthy twins counted as ‘severe fetal anomaly’ for abortionist Tiller: former prosecutor | LifeSiteNews.com: The only prosecutor ever to bring charges against Planned Parenthood,Phill Kline, a former Attorney General of Kansas and D.A. of Johnson County, started by investigating child rape, but found more than he bargained for as he dug deeper into the records of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller and the local Planned Parenthood affiliate.

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Abortionist announces on camera he’s quitting the biz

Abortionist announces to pro-life world on camera he’s quitting the biz | LifeSiteNews.com: Florida abortionist Scott Spagnolo-Hye announced to the pro-life world that as of June 2 he is quitting the baby-killing business. He has been the abortionist at four clinics. YouTube

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