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Abortion Quotes from Pro-Choice Sources From "Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic" by Wendy Simonds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996 included a chapter on how to repel abortion protestors or "antis"): Quotes from clinic employees: "You're going from dealing with people to dealing with what most people here at the Center consider a real hurdle, to do sterile room, because you have to deal with the actual abortion tissue. And for some people, that's really hard. They can be abstractly in favor of abortion rights, but they sure don't want to see what an eighteen-week...

Breast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC LinkBreast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC Link     10/25/2004By Mary E. Traeger, CWA of MO Media CoordinatorOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds . . ."While he was saying this a woman from the crowd called out, ‘Blest is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!'" (Luke 1:27)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds of thousands of participants in numerous cities walking to find a breast cancer cure. Corporations are...

<p>You know what? Just let me make one point. You were talking about the map before. If indeed all those blue states all got together and seceded from the union, think what would be left for those red states, nothing. There would be no educational system. You would have nothing. What would be left to you? I mean, where is all of this talent in this country? It's on both sides, the Northeast corridor.</p>

Technology makes start of life clear By Juanita Thouin Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Since the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade, one pivotal issue has fueled the continuing abortion debate - the origin of life. Some said, and still say, life begins at conception. Others claim it begins at birth. Through the 1970s and 80s, many of us accepted or at least acquiesced to a pro-choice philosophy - myself included. After all, the womb was a mysterious place where few ventured. Yes, some of us had seen the amazing 1965 photos Lennart Nilsson took, via an endoscope, of a...

Group Hopes To Show Ads To People Of All Ages KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Many shoppers on the Country Club Plaza said they were shocked by anti-abortion advertisements on the sides of trucks that trolled the business district Monday. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform is behind the graphic photographs seen by hundreds Monday, KMBC's Maria Antonia reported. The group describes itself as a pro-life educational organization. "I call it a weapon of mass instruction. We're going to see thousands and thousands of people this week while we're here in Kansas City," said Bill Calvin, a field manager with the group....

A cradle-baby scheme in Tamil Nadu has helped save 461 newborns in an area once notorious for its high incidence of female infanticide. A staggering 436 of these babies who have got a new lease of life thanks to the cradle-baby centre of the government hospital in Dharmapuri district are girls. The centre was set up in April 2003 in a bid to deter unwed mothers and couples who did not want girls from killing their newborns, as was a widespread practice in Dharmapuri and some other southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Cradles are kept at the hospital entrance where...

Fr. John Nesbella, will lead a group to State College from Johnstown to protest an abortion clinic, Saturday, August 21st, then September 18th and October 16th. All are welcome to participate. Email fcunning@acsworld.com for details. Pray for our babies and their parents!

Pictured here are Sarah Smith and her mother Betty. In 1970, Betty tried to abort Sarah in Los Angeles. At the time, Betty did not know she was pregnant with twins. One baby was aborted, but miraculously, Sarah survived. Sarah has forgiven her mother -- and for five years they traveled the world speaking together about the pain and suffering caused by abortion. Below is Sarah's story, followed by the speech she gave in Rome in 1996. Twins -- one aborted, one survives! Sarah tells her story . . . "Twenty-nine years ago, my mother decided to have an abortion....