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Van equipped with ultrasound saves unborn lives

“We average two or three turnarounds per day. We average about 800 saves a year just at the mobile facility.”

Pro-Lifer Chris Slattery, president of EMC Frontline.

EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers has a van equipped with ultrasound machines. Volunteers park in front of abortion clinics and attempt to reach abortion minded women.

Jaboy Rivera is one such success story. She said that she owes her child’s life to Slattery’s mobile-ultrasound unit. Scheduled for an abortion, she had a pregnancy test and ultrasound on the bus and learned that she was 15 weeks pregnant. Her boyfriend wanted her to have an abortion.

“If I wouldn’t have seen the sonogram and my baby moving, I would have done it. I thank those with the bus for not letting me do it. I give thanks that I didn’t do it.”

Tim Drake “Ultrasound Hits the Road” National Catholic Register August 28-September 10, 2011

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Due to pro-life laws, South Dakota does only 0.1% of abortions

As of this articlewritten in 2012,South Dakota had prolife laws including parental notification, bans on public funding of abortion, and pro-life counseling as well as the longest waiting period (three days) of any state.

“Given the legal environment in South Dakota, it’s not surprising that only 6% of South Dakota women who became pregnant in 2008 aborted – three times lower than the national abortion rate of 19%. That’s just 850 abortions in 2008, representing less than .1% of abortions nationally.”

Daniel Allot “Does Roe Still Matter?” American Spectator, January 25, 2012

Prolife laws save lives

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Legalizing abortion led to rise in women seeking them, says clinic owner

Future abortion clinic owner who used to work for a referral network that put women in touch with illegal abortionists says that things changed when abortion was legalized:

“As abortion became legalized, the demand for abortion information escalated dramatically. I was surprised at this… Legalization resulted in more women seeking abortion.…

Women with unwanted pregnancies who might have been afraid of illegal abortions became less frightened when abortions were legal.

Now that names of doctors who performed abortions could be given out openly, more women asked for them.”

Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition

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“Precious feet pin” help save preborn babies

From a crisis pregnancy center worker in Atlanta, Georgia:

“… Our volunteer talked to both girls but felt we would lose their babies to abortion. As she was leaving, she remembered the “precious feet” on her collar and gave them to one of the girls. She told her “these are the exact size of a 10 week-old baby’s feet” (the precise point of her pregnancy). Well, our volunteer came back and we all prayed, but the precious feet had done their work – we were able to save not one but two babies! Our thanks for making the precious feet available to us.”

Judy Madsen Johnson Stories from the Frontlines: the Battle against Abortion (2014) 54

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Pro-Life pamphlet distribution leads to political victory

Pro-choice activist describing what pro-lifers did when there was an ordinance to legalize abortion in North Dakota (before Roe V Wade):

“They distributed this color brochure with a picture of the [14-week aborted] fetus door-to-door in Fargo and the rest of the state on Sunday and Monday, so we couldn’t respond since the vote was on Tuesday. I remember I went and spoke the night before the election when the darn pamphlet landed on people’s doorsteps. I got this absolutely tremulous woman who came to talk to me. You could see that her faith was really shaken… Well the referendum was defeated very badly [78% in the state, 64% in Fargo] and it was a real setback.”

Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1989, 1998) 71

See what this baby looks like after an abortion.

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Researcher witnesses China’s forced abortions on women

Stephen W Mosher writes about what he saw in China:

“The year was 1980. One of the first American social scientists allowed to do research in China since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, I was living in rural Guangdong and was engaged in a study of an agricultural commune. One day several hundred young commune women, all pregnant with their second or third children, were ordered to attend family planning meetings. Inquiries revealed that the provincial government had secretly ordered a 1% cap on population growth for the year. Local officials were complying the only way they could – by launching a family planning “high tide” during the month of March to terminate as many pregnancies as possible…

No woman was to be allowed to bear a second child within four years of her first, and third children were strictly forbidden…

Over the next few weeks I became an eyewitness to every aspect of this draconian campaign. I went with young women to family planning “study sessions”… And saw them harangued and threatened by senior party officials. I follow them as they were taken under escort to the commune clinic and watched – with the permission of local officials who were eager to demonstrate their prowess in birth control to a visiting foreigner – as they were aborted and sterilized. I spoke with anguished husbands and heartbroken grandparents and interviewed poker-faced officials in charge. I left China a few months later with women’s pleas for help still ringing in my ears”

Stephen W Mosher A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One Child Policy (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993) vii–viii

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Number of Reported Annual Abotions (1973-2011)

Year Guttmacher CDC

1973 744,610 615,831

1974 898,570 763,476

1975 1,034,170 854,853

1976 1,179,300 988,267

1977 1,316,700 1,079,430

1978 1,409,600 1,157,776

1979 1,497,670 1,251,921

1980 1,553,890 1,297,606

1981 1,577,340 1,300,760

1982 1,573,920 1,303,980

1983 1,575,000 1,268,987

1984 1,577,180 1,333,521

1985 1,588,550 1,328,570

1986 1,574,000 1,328,112

1987 1,559,110 1,353,671

1988 1,590,750 1,371,285

1989 1,566,900 1,396,658

1990 1,608,600 1,429,247

1991 1,556,510 1,388,937

1992 1,528,930 1,359,146

1993 1,495,000 1,330,414

1994 1,423,000 1,267,415

1995 1,359,400 1,210,883

1996 1,360,160 1,225,937

1997 1,335,000 1,186,039

1998 1,319,000 884,273*

1999 1,314,800 861,789*

2000 1,312,990 857,475*

2001 1,291,000 853,485*

2002 1,269,000 854,122*

2003 1,250,000 848,163*

2004 1,222,100 839,226*

2005 1,206,200 820,151*

2006 1,242,200 846,181*

2007 1,209,640 827,609*

2008 1,212,350 825,564*

2009 1,151,600 789,116*

2010 1,102,670 765,651*

2011 1,058,490 730,322*

*excludes NH, CA and at least one other state

Total: 57, 496, 011 Guttmacher Inst.(includes projected numbers for 2012-2014)

GI estimates a possible 3% under reporting rate, which is factored into the overall total

“ABORTION statistics: United States Data and Trends” National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund

Below: 7 weeks. Most abortions happen at this time.

9-10 weeks. 40% happen at this stage or later.

12 weeks. 10% of abortions happen later than 12 weeks

See what babies look like after abortion.

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Abortion clinic offers “Mother’s Day Special”

About an abortion clinic in China:

Just 3 years ago i did participant observation with women getting abortions and on the day we came here in May 2009, there was a big red banner:

“Mother’s Day Special – discounts on abortions.”

We found out that only the least bloody abortions were discounted. The bloodier the abortion, the less expensive and more affordable, but those are also the most invasive.

The participant I was with chose a less expensive package so she didn’t advantage of the Mother’s Day discount. After they performed the procedure, they gave her the option of buying food, like milk and bread, all of which were pre-packaged. The nurses tried to get her to buy the more expensive food products, telling her that it would help her heal.

Memories of fieldwork with women getting abortions Bytes of China April 3, 2012

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70% of pregnant women chose life after seeing the ultrasound

“Last year, we performed 565 ultrasound exams. Of our pregnant clients who have an ultrasound, 70% decide to carry their babies. Of our pregnant clients who do not have an ultrasound, 29% decide to carry. With outcomes like these, I can’t imagine not having ultrasound at First Choice.”

“Heartbeat” First Choice Women’s Resource Center Newsletter Spring 2010 P1

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Number of abortions began increasing after legalization

Norma Goldberger, abortion clinic owner and abortion counselor on what happened after abortion was legalized:

“The number of women who decided to have an abortion was phenomenal. A study by Kinsey, performed when most abortions were illegal, documented that 10% of women had a history of at least one abortion by the age of fifty. Now that abortion was legal in some states that percentage was rising.”

Norma Goldberger Abortion Confidential: Secrets of an Abortion Clinic Owner (CreateSpace , November 23, 2014) Kindle Edition

Pro-choice organizations like to say that one in three women have an abortion in their lifetime but the research is suspect.

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