Thursday, December 31, 2009

Crisis Pregnancy Centers — Working Hard To Save Lives

Here's quite an inspiring story:
In Baltimore recently, the city council passed the first legislation in the country that requires crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to post signs outside their buildings that state that they do not provide or refer for abortions. Failure to do so will result in a fine of $150 a day.

The law seems to be a response to CPC’s success in counseling women with crisis pregnancies not to abort their children. CPC’s have been aided by ultrasound imaging, which has been instrumental in revealing the unborn child as a living and sensing person. By giving mothers and fathers an enhanced picture of what -- of who -- is being destroyed during an abortion, such technology has been perhaps the pro-life cause’s most valuable tool to impede the ever encroaching culture of death.

Studies show that 80 to 90 percent of women who see an ultrasound of their unborn child choose not to abort. The widespread use of ultrasound has been a major reason why abortions have decreased by 25 percent, to 1.2 million in 2005, from an all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
That shows who's got the truth on his side, doesn't it? No wonder the pro-aborts do all they can to hide the truth. Including - preventing one who had an abortion from telling her story:
As the protesters link arms and surround the huge GAP display, I pray and wonder how this new protesting dynamic will affect our outreach. I am desperate for them to know that abortion not only kills children, but also destroys moms and dads. They don’t understand, so I must tell them.

I have a story to tell. My story. They have no idea what “choice” really is. They’ve been lied to. I pray they will listen and really hear, they will see and really see, and they will never forget. So many lives are at stake.
The Crisis Pregnancy Center is there to help anyone. Including women who had abortions. Yes, it maybe too late for those particular babies. But the CPC can help those women cope with their grief and share their experience with others - so that at least other women don't make the same tragic mistake.

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