Keeping You Informed

• Do you believe that abortion should be available for the full nine months of pregnancy?
• Do you believe that parents do not need to be notified if their underaged daughter is seeking an abortion.
• Do you believe that abortion clinics should not have to meet the same standard for cleanness and record keeping as any other out-patient facility?
• Do you believe that partial birth abortion (delivering all but the head of child and then killing him or her) is acceptable?
• Do you believe that abortion should be funded with tax dollars?
• Do you believe that a health care professional should be required to participate in an abortion or lose his or her license?

If you answered NO to any of these questions then you must vote NO on the Reproductive Freedom for All amendment.  Each of these things can, and will, happen if the measure succeeds. The measure makes Michigan an “anything goes” state like California and New York.  There will be NO restrictions on abortion at any time for any reason and this will become part of the Michigan Constitution.

Vote NO on 3 -- deny this extreme measure and protect All Michigan Residents!!!

For more information, please call Right to Life-LIFESPAN. 248-816-1546.

As state abortion bans take effect, even Planned Parenthood is announcing location closures, despite the fact that they, at least in their name, exist to support parenthood. Or do they? A look at Planned Parenthood’s own list of services reveals literally nothing to do with actual, you know, parenthood.

A few years ago, the creative marketing team at Planned Parenthood tried to convince everyone that “abortion is only 3%” of their business. So why are Planned Parenthood locations in life states closing following an abortion ban? Clearly, it’s not due to their parenthood products. But then there are the supposed 97% of their “women’s services” that are intended to help women, right? Apparently not. It seems as though they were willing to stay open to do abortions, but not to serve women.

Yet, somehow, abortion supporters like Sen. Elizabeth Warren are gravely concerned.

“In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers … outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,” Ms. Warren told NBC 10 Boston. “We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.” Like Planned Parenthood, Ms. Warren is more concerned about abortion than about women who are pregnant and need help for any other choice.

While an abortion provider needs only a matter of minutes to terminate a pregnancy, a pregnancy center spends hours, days, weeks and even months helping women choose to carry their baby to term. Selling and executing abortions is a big money-maker (see Planned Parenthood’s previous annual reports). A significant portion of big abortion money goes to support politicians like Ms. Warren. (The dirty little secret of the abortion industry is that they’ve switched their model from selling abortions in stand-alone clinics to easily mailed chemical abortions over the last several years.)

Meanwhile, local pregnancy help centers, especially those that are in abortion states, faithfully help women through their pregnancy and into parenting or the chance to choose adoptive parents. Thanks to kind-hearted community donations, pregnancy centers provide things like maternity clothes, prenatal vitamins, parenting classes and baby items.

Pregnancy help centers invest time and attention in understanding the environment swirling around an unexpected pregnancy. Uncovering unhealthy relationship dynamics can serve to help reset a positive path forward toward the vision of the future she wants.

It takes more pregnancy centers because there is more to do to help a woman choose life for her baby versus the relatively quick abortion procedure. To adequately serve America’s pregnant women, it will take even more, not fewer like Ms. Warren wants, because women should never be forced into only the choice of abortion. That is no choice at all, especially when the pressure to abort is coming from other people or temporary circumstances. Every woman should be loved and supported in her pregnancy. That takes more.

The path to parenting is longer. Sometimes that makes it harder. And for the families thriving today thanks to the help of a pregnancy center, it is certainly worth the investment.

Originally published at the Washington Times on August 22, 2022

Myths and Facts about PRCs:

Myth: PRCs only provide information on keeping a pregnancy.

Fact: PRCs provide accurate information about all choices – abortion, adoption, and parenting. Abortion providers provide abortions. They don’t do adoptions, and they’re ill prepared to support parenthood. In contrast, PRCs provide medically accurate information about abortion, adoption, parenthood, and inform their clients that they don’t perform or refer for abortions. They do educate patients on abortions risks and side effects. If the patient decides to continue her pregnancy, then adoption and parenting support options are presented as well.

Myth: PRCs are fake clinics.

Fact: Many of today’s PRCs are supervised by a physician, usually an OB/GYN, who is in good community standing, supported by nurses, ultrasound technicians, medical assistants, and social workers serving the needs of their patients.

In addition to free pregnancy testing and no-cost STD testing, the most significant medical service provided by the modern PRC is the use of advanced ultrasound imaging. Medical professionals recognize that ultrasound is one of the most essential services a woman can receive. Pregnancy centers can – for free – perform an ultrasound that accurately answers the questions every doctor is asking about a women’s pregnancy. Is this pregnancy viable, how far along is the pregnancy, and is the pregnancy in the right location?

The modern medical PRC is outfitted with state of the art technology and a team of health professionals who follow the standing orders from a qualified physician. Also, that physician has put his or her license and professional reputation on the line for the PRC.

Myth: PRCs only care about the baby.

Fact: Fundamental to the mission of the local PRC is the commitment to assist parents and their children by providing relational, educational, material, emotional, and spiritual support before, during, and after the pregnancy. The presupposition of this myth – that PRCs will somehow walk away from a woman after her baby is born is completely unfounded. PRCs exist to give a woman everything she needs to make a life decision, but at the same time they’re committed to supporting her even if she doesn’t.

PRCs are uniquely positioned to support women experiencing an unintended pregnancy because they have no vested or financial interest in her abortion, adoption, or parenting decision. This makes them objectively pro-woman in a way that the abortion industry simply is not.