Addie insists, “My life is over if I have this baby.” “I can’t bring a baby into this mess!” Chelsea contends. Maggie despairs, “How can I face my family and church?” When a woman considers abortion she often feels conflicted, confused by these three major tensions: 1) ending her child’s life versus ending her
Missy, an unmarried mother of one, recently found out she was pregnant again. Not sure what to think about it, she went to her boyfriend Chad, with the news of her pregnancy. Chad was shocked and insisted that Missy get an abortion as soon as possible. He felt that they were not in a good
When a woman faces an unplanned pregnancy and is considering abortion, how should a Christian view that pregnancy? An unplanned pregnancy is not a negative side-effect to sexual activity. It is a crossroads of grace whereby God gives a woman the opportunity to choose to make one more poor decision in a long line of
Jada bought three pregnancy tests from the dollar store and flew home, only to discover her fears were confirmed…she’s pregnant. Her entire life, she’s been told that she could do and be whatever she wanted but now all her plans are in jeopardy. Jada’s conflicted. She knows it’s a baby but can’t imagine raising
CompassCare serves women at-risk for abortion. This is Maria’s story… This Thanksgiving empower a woman with choice – the ability to say no to abortion and yes to her baby. Go to realabortionnews.com/donate.
Does the Pill cause cancer? The journal Linacre Quarterly published an article entitled The Reasons Hormonal Contraceptives and Induced Abortion Increase Breast-Cancer Risk. In that article, Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School points out; “In 2005,…the UN’s World Health Organization classified hormonal contraceptives as Group 1 carcinogens for breast,
Why do environmentalists care about abortion? The Center for Biological Diversity says on their website, “Human population growth is at the root of our most pressing environmental issues.” Earlier this year, Michael Brune from the Sierra Club said during a TV interview, “[Abortion] helps to address the number of the people that we have on
Virtually all FDA approved childhood vaccines are manufactured using aborted baby cell lines. Starting in 1979, pharmaceutical companies began producing vaccines using fetal cell lines from aborted babies, instead of nonhuman cell lines. Research is just now being done on the safety and efficacy of the manufacturing formula. Over the following 20 years, fetal cell
Janice came to CompassCare for an initial pregnancy appointment. She lives at home and is finishing up her senior year of high school. Janice came to the appointment with her friend’s mom. The tears started during her ultrasound as she stared at her active nine week old baby on the screen. And the tears kept
“…and He healed them” (Mt 15: 30c). Her mother died when she was 12. Her father’s alcoholism left her abandoned to care for her younger siblings. Now she is pregnant. Night after night, this orphan underlined her loneliness on her couch, turning over a sad, utilitarian calculus of whether she would let her child live.
