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| The Visitation |
Note: While I've done my best to choose quality resources to be listed here, a resource being listed here does not necessarily imply that I endorse everything done/said by the resource. If you think something should be removed, please let me know.
Pregnant and need help?
Option Line - you can look up pregnancy centers in your area that offer free pregnancy and child-raising resources and counseling, there's an 800 number you can call, you can email, and you can even start a live instant messaging chat right on this website; has information about pregnancy, the morning after pill, and abortion
Birthright International - has pregnancy help centers all over the world, and you can search for one on this website; has an 800 number you can call
--> More alternatives to abortion...
Post-abortion and need healing?
Rachel's Vineyard - offers post-abortion healing retreats all over the world
Hope After Abortion
Lumina/Hope and Healing After Abortion (see testimonies in video section below)
Silent No More Awareness Campaign (see testimonies in video section below)
Former abortionist and need healing and/or support leaving the industry?
And Then There Were None - an organization that helps abortion workers leave the industry
Society of Centurions - fellowship and healing support among former abortionists
AbbyJohnson.org - website of former Planned Parenthood clinic director
--> Other stories of former abortion providers...
Quick Stats on Abortion
How many abortions take place?
- in US in 2008 alone: 1.21 million [Source]
- in US from 1973-2008: 50 million [Source] (see The Numbers May Shock You...)
- worldwide in 2008 alone: 43.8 million [Source]
In the US, who gets abortions? [Source]
- AGE: 18% are teenagers; 57% are age 20-29
- RACE: 36% are White; 30% are Black; 25% are Hispanic; 9% are of other races
- INCOME: 42% have income below the federal poverty level; 27% have income 1-2x the federal poverty level
- RELIGION: 37% are Protestant; 28% are Catholic
- FAMILY: 61% already have one or more children; 45% are never married and not cohabiting
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| March for Life (DC) |
March for Life - hundreds of thousands march on the national mall in Washington DC every year since 1974 on or near January 22nd (the anniversary of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision)
Walk For Life: West Coast - a relatively new march, started in 2005; tens of thousands (and growing every year) march in San Francisco every year on or near January 22nd
40 Days for Life - 40 days of prayer and fasting outside abortion clinics twice a year in hundreds of cities around the world
LifeChain - public pray chains along roads
Websites/Organizations
4D ultrasounds pictures of unborn babies (at prolifeamerica.com)
Abort73
Abortion Blackout
Crossroads
Democrats for Life
Feminists for Life
Life Site News
Live Action
New Wave Feminists For Life
PersonhoodUSA
Priests for Life
Pro-Life Across American: "The Billboard People"
Secular Pro-Life
--> More pro-life websites/organizations...
Books
Defending Life: a moral and legal case against abortion choice by Francis Beckwith
UnPlanned by Abby Johnson
Aborting America by Bernard Nathanson
Movies (trailers in video section)
Bella
180
It's a Girl: the three deadliest words in the world
The Gift of Life
Blood Money
The Silent Scream (Warning: includes ultrasound video of an abortion)
Eclipse of Reason (Warning: includes video of a late-term abortion)
Hard Truth (Warning: includes pictures and videos of aborted babies)
My blog posts related to abortion
The March for Life, evangelicals, and the pro-life cause
The US Catholic bishops were the real enemy - in 1968 (to pro-choicers)
The mealtime prayer to end abortion that's going to take over the world
I'm 24 today and I'm an abortion survivor (with my baby pictures!)
The Numbers May Shock You...
An Unwanted Change in the Abortion Debate?
Other
- In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture, Bl Mother Teresa said that abortion is "the greatest destroyer of peace today"
- In his 1995 encyclical Evangelicum Vitae, Pope Bl John Paul II said that there was a war going on today between the Gospel of life and the "culture of death", which includes abortion along with other attacks on human life and dignity
Videos
LUMINA Hope and Healing after Abortion
3 min
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Silent No More testimonies
The SilentNoMore Awareness Campaign YouTube channel has about 180 videos of women (and a few men) telling their stories of their abortions, explaining how their abortion affected their life, and why they now regret their abortion. I've posted just one example below.
5 min
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March for Life 2012 -- The Rebellion
A great video of young pro-lifers at the March for Life 2012 sharing why they are pro-life; created by the BadCatholic Marc Barnes
4 min
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Language of Abortion Commercial
Short video that exposes the euphemisms of abortion
30 seconds
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Heartbeat Commercial
30 seconds
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The Case Against Abortion: Personhood
3 min
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An Overview of Abortion
6 min
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Fred Hammond's powerful testimony
The testimony of gospel singer Fred Hammond who found out at the age of 47 from his mother that he was born because he survived an attempted abortion
4 min
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Hard Truth
10 min
Warning: includes pictures and videos of aborted babies
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Created Equal
4 min
Warning: includes pictures and videos of aborted babies
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The Silent Scream
A 1984 documentary that shows and explains an abortion in real time (via ultrasound) directed and narrated by former abortionist and pro-abortion advocate Bernard Nathanson
28 min, available in full on YouTube below
Warning: shows ultrasound video of an abortion
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Eclipse of Reason
27 min
Warning: shows video of a late-term abortion
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180
33 min
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It's a Girl: the three deadliest words in the world trailer
Trailer for the documentary It's a Girl: the three deadliest words in the world
3 min
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The Gift of Life trailer
Trailer for the documentary The Gift of Life
3 min
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Blood Money trailer
Trailer for the documentary Blood Money
3 min
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