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Anti-abortion activists are reaching aggressively to draw more blacks into their movement, targeting urban communities they long have considered hostile turf. They are opening crisis pregnancy centers in minority neighborhoods, establishing partnerships with black pastors and distributing leaflets that raise suspicion about Planned Parenthood, a longtime provider of reproductive health care and abortions . Framing their cause as the new frontier in civil rights - an effort to stop "black genocide" - these activists have turned to revered names in black history. A niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s is touring the nation, speaking out against "the war...

A photograph that accompanied the top headline on the Drudge Report at one point Monday looked very familiar to me. It showed two tiny feet peeking through the fingers of a hand, and I thought at first that it was a typical anti-abortion photo that marchers carry at pro-life marches. In fact, it was a photo of Amilia Taylor, born four months ago at 22 weeks gestation, weighing only 10 ounces. She is believed to be the only baby born at less than 23 weeks to have survived. Amilia now weighs four pounds, and doctors are preparing to release...

Janeen Daniels was on her way into a Chicago clinic for an abortion when a couple approached and suggested she had other options. She accompanied them to a "crisis pregnancy center," where she was given a referral for an ultrasound exam of her uterus and the promise of help if she decided to carry her pregnancy to term. "Once I saw the ultrasound pictures -- he was 10 weeks old, moving already -- I decided to keep him," said Daniels, 29. The child, Steven, is now 3, and Daniels can't imagine life without him. To her the pregnancy center was...

Why are newspapers all over the country suddenly publishing articles about how Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are supposedly using "false" information to try to change the minds of pregnant women about abortion? Mere coincidence? Not likely. The Abortion Establishment's campaign against CPCs (also known as "pregnancy care centers") is an old one. But as the number of CPCs has grown, as some centers have begun to receive modest federal funding, and as the Movement has grown far more effective in getting the truth about abortion's risks and realities into the hands of pregnant women, the attack has intensified. In the...

There is probably no more contentious issue facing American society than abortion. Indeed only the civil rights debate in the 1960's and the birth pangs of a young nation divided by the shame of slavery in the mid-1800's can match the emotional controversy driven by the subject of abortion in the 21st century. But with all its potential for heated controversy, abortion is probably the topic receiving the least attention by the American mainstream media. Certainly it is discussed in a political sense. Is this candidate for or against abortion? Will the individual seeking office receive support from the opposing...

Due to a shortage of both funds and volunteers, East San Jose's Community Pregnancy Center, a non-profit clinic that provides free and comprehensive pregnancy information and support for women, will be closing its doors. Other CPCs in the Silicon Valley remain open, but rely on donations and volunteers to continue and expand their services. 79% of women who receive an abortion say they were not counseled on alternatives. In fact, 84% of post-abortive women believe that they did not receive adequate counseling before having their abortion.* The Community Pregnancy Centers seek to fill this need by providing complete and comprehensive...