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Father Regrets Wanting an Abortion

Jul 10, 2023John StonestreetAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

A Harvard Business Review article once advised: “Forget PowerPoint and statistics, to involve people at the deepest level you need to tell stories.” Those hoping to defend innocent life should take note.

A few weeks ago, a powerful story went viral on social media. A young father holding his infant daughter posted a confession, “God please forgive me: see the beautiful soul I wanted to abort.”

Of course, there are millions who have gone forward with that terrible choice and who know the full regret of abortion. The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is the place where these stories are told. “I didn’t defend the life of my own daughter based on misinformation, selfishness, fear, and shame,” one man admitted, “I let her die to an abortionist knife, and I died the same day.”

These stories are hard to hear and harder to tell, but they need to be told. When hidden, people are enslaved to guilt and shame. As Jesus said, “the truth sets us free.”

400+ Women From Arkansas Had Abortions in Kansas During 2022: New Report

Jul 3, 2023Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

New reports show more than 400 women from Arkansas had abortions in Kansas during 2022.

In June the State of Kansas released its annual abortion statistics. The data shows that abortions increased in the Sunflower State from 7,849 in 2021 to 12,318 in 2022.

The number of abortions performed on women from Arkansas rose from 74 in 2020 to 405 last year. Of those 405 abortions, eleven were on girls under the age of 18.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion became prohibited in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother. Data from the Arkansas Department of Health shows that prevented an estimated 1,500 abortions last year.

Together, these numbers indicate that while hundreds of women from Arkansas traveled out of state for abortions last year, Arkansas’ pro-life laws still protected many more women and unborn children from abortion.

You can read the abortion reports from the State of Kansas here.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

NPR Misses Critical Story on Abortion

Jun 21, 2023Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

On Tuesday NPR published a story titled, “Some states are restricting abortion. Others are spending millions to fund it.”

The article outlines how in the wake of last year’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, some states — such as Arkansas — have moved to restrict or prohibit abortion while others have doubled-down on pro-abortion legislation.

But there’s an important story here that NPR completely missed:

Many states that restrict or prohibit abortion also have taken unprecedented steps to provide support for women with unplanned pregnancies.

Last year the Arkansas Legislature appropriated $1 million in funding for grants to pregnancy help organizations.

That money has helped more than 20 charities in the state provide material support for women with unplanned pregnancies.

This year lawmakers voted to renew that $1 million in pro-life funding for the 2023-2024 budget cycle.

Arkansas isn’t alone.

The Associate Press reports that Tennessee is budgeting a whopping $20 million for pregnancy centers this year.

Texas allocated $50 million for pregnancy centers during the 2021-2022 fiscal year, and Missouri budgets approximately $6.5 million.

In fact, another AP report found public funding for pregnancy resource centers has spiked nationwide in recent years.

Pro-lifers aren’t interested in simply prohibiting abortion. The goal is to make abortion unnecessary and unthinkable. Funding pregnancy resource centers is one way to do that.

These centers give women real options besides abortion.

Many of them provide everything from ultrasounds and pregnancy tests to maternity clothes and adoption referrals — typically free of charge. They often operate on very tight budgets and rely heavily on volunteers and donations.

Pregnancy resource centers play a vital role in ending abortion, and these state-funded grants help them do exactly that.