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Don’t Deny Your Grief

Pam Vredevelt

It’s hard to see it through the pain of losing a baby, but denying or glossing over your grief doesn’t allow you to remember him or her with love. It doesn’t help you become the courageous, confident and healthy woman you truly want to be.

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A Letter to Chloe: Processing Your Grief After a Miscarriage

Pam Vredevelt

The grief of a pregnancy loss can challenge the deepest sense of who you are, your connection with others, with life and with God. My daughter and I have discovered that processing our pain in writing helps ease the hurt.

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Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy When You’re Married

Lisa Brock

“Honey, I’m pregnant.” Adding a child to your family is stressful even when you plan the pregnancy. Making the transition when a baby wasn't expected can be even tougher.

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10 Ways Physicians can Assist a Local Pregnancy Medical Clinic in Making an Impact for Life

Focus on the Family

From a simple visit to regular volunteering your time, there are plenty of ways pro-life physicians can support local pregnancy centers in their life-saving mission.

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Men: Moving Past the Pain of Abortion

Shana Schutte

Women aren't alone in dealing with the guilt and grief that follows an abortion.

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Unplanned Pregnancy: Help at the Point of Need

Focus on the Family

When a young woman faces an unintended pregnancy, one of the ways God often meets her needs – in fact, the most common way – is through His people.

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A Life-Limiting Diagnosis During Pregnancy

We learned to walk through an adverse pregnancy diagnosis when a routine ultrasound revealed that our baby girl had a fatal disorder.

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A Life-Limiting Diagnosis During Pregnancy: A Mother’s Perspective

Laura Huene

We learned to walk through an adverse pregnancy diagnosis when a routine ultrasound revealed that our baby girl had a fatal disorder.

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Feeling Alone

Laura Huene

As word spreads about our family’s situation, we find that people do not know what to say to someone carrying a baby who is going to die.

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The Bonds of Family

Laura Huene

When our other children ask questions about their preborn sister, we realize that only the truth will suffice.

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Preparing to Meet Pearl

Laura Huene

We know that our time with Pearl will be brief, so we do everything we can to prepare for our daughter’s birth.

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Survey: Women Go Silently From Church to Abortion Clinic

Lisa Cannon Green

Distrust of the church’s response to an unplanned pregnancy is widespread. Many women believe church members are more likely to gossip about a woman considering an abortion than to help her understand her options.

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Five Fears That Keep Pastors From Preaching About Abortion

Mark Campbell

Many pastors are unwilling to engage the issue of abortion from the pulpit. The result is that these pastors abandon their congregations on this issue, leaving the narrative to be written by the world.

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Reconnecting With the Mother Who Tried to Abort Me

Melissa Ohden

Melissa Ohden was 14 when she discovered she was the survivor of a botched abortion. Learning the truth was a horrific, live-changing experience, but today Melissa appreciates who God made her to be – survivor and all.

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Abortion and Poverty

Financial questions are often a leading concern for women facing an unplanned pregnancy, but a woman’s decision to carry her baby to term is rarely determined solely by her economic situation.

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Abortion and Poverty: Relationships are Key

Jenny Knowles

Financial questions are often a leading concern for women facing an unplanned pregnancy, but a woman’s decision to carry her baby to term is rarely determined solely by her economic situation.

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When Abortion is the ‘Path of Least Resistance’

Jenny Knowles

Whether it’s parents concerned about the family’s reputation, a married man who’s having an affair or an uncommitted boyfriend, all have an interest in making the “problem” of an unplanned pregnancy go away.

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Women Considering Abortion Need Support

Jenny Knowles

The emotional and practical support offered by pregnancy clinic staffers can have the biggest impact on abortion-minded women and their partners.

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Students for Life: Making a Difference on America’s College Campuses

Dawn Vargo

Culture is shaped by the young, and most worldviews are challenged and formed at the high school and college level. That’s why, in their mission to make abortion unthinkable, Students for Life is reaching out to America’s youth.

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Marching for Life 2018: Love Saves Lives

Jeanne Mancini

The annual March for Life is an event that brings together the entire pro-life community – all working to see a time when abortion is unthinkable.

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Choosing Life: Changed by a Heartbeat

Thomas Jeffries

Her mind was made up — until she saw the ultrasound image.

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To Be Pro-Life is to Help Families

Matt Kaufman

The message of finding homes for children – and helping the families who take them in – is just one aspect of the Evangelicals for Life conference.

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What is the Root Issue of the Pro-Life Movement?

Matt Kaufman

Speaking at the Evangelicals for Life conference, Russell Moore says legislating, campaigning and marching is important – but it’s not enough.

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Pro-Life Event is a Call to Commitment

Matt Kaufman

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly is just one of many dynamic speakers scheduled to address the 2018 Evangelicals for Life conference.