Anti-abortion groups are getting more calls for help with unplanned pregnancies

With abortion now illegal or severely restricted in a growing number of states, groups that help patients travel for the procedure as well as those who oppose abortion and offer assistance with unintended pregnancies, are reporting more calls for help.

"We're in this for the long run"

The anti-abortion movement is well-funded, organized, and effective. Over the past three years, it has helped pass 230 laws aimed at limiting abortion. But it’s also mostly faceless. While there are prominent members of the movement — from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) to March for Life's president Jeanne Monahan-Mancini — there is no single person who represents the political force.

Abortion Bans Create a Public Health Nightmare

Making abortion mostly illegal will kick off an unintentional, vast experiment in public health—one where the outcomes are sick or dying women and children.

Antiabortion Movement Begins to Crack, After Decades of Unity

The so-called heartbeat bills, which ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks of pregnancy, have brought the internal rift over strategy to a crisis.

As the March for Life approaches, anti-abortion leaders are rebranding as ‘pro-science.’ Scientists say otherwise

When anti-abortion demonstrators numbering in the tens of thousands join the March for Life, an anti-abortion protest set to take place Friday on the National Mall here, many will tout signs bearing a new slogan: “Pro-life is pro-science.”

Can you be a "pro-life feminist"? The Women's March on Washington offered some insights.

The idea of showing compassion for women who seek abortion has become much more common in the pro-life movement over the past few decades than fire-and-brimstone rhetoric. Pro-life advocates frequently argue that while abortion is wrong because it takes a human life, women also “deserve better” than abortion.

Growing pro-life movement presents a challenge to defenders of abortion rights

For some, pro-life activism is a personal commitment to make a difference as an individual, offering what they see as support to other women, through and after pregnancy. Others told us that getting an abortion in Britain is currently “too easy”. The wish to provide support is very different from making it harder for women to get an abortion by changing the law.

Here’s Why The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Escalating

But this bolder approach may be a gamble. That’s because bans on abortions in the first trimester of a pregnancy (up to 13 weeks) aren’t in line with most Americans’ views on abortion.

How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia

The Australian right-to-life movement is tiny compared to the US, but their views have an outsized place in the abortion debate because of their vocal political and religious allies. Less understood is their successful borrowing from the examples and experiences of international right-to-life movements, particularly in the US.

I Am Pro-Life. Don’t Call Me Anti-Abortion.

That kind of language allows critics to dismiss me and fellow pro-lifers as single-issue obsessives.

People criticize pro-lifers for focusing so much on abortion. But there’s a reason we do.

For the pro-lifer, there is no clearer instance of the marginalized, the voiceless, and the vulnerable than in the womb — and no more profound source of wonder at the limitless possibilities that human life is capable of achieving. The early embryo looks nothing like us, has none of our capabilities, drains the mother’s resources, and often requires the mother to sacrifice many of her interests. If in these conditions one can see something worthwhile, something that can be a benefit or a blessing to the world even when unwanted, then one can start to glimpse why pro-lifers are so animated and so patient in their efforts.

Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost

Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America's most contentious debates.

The New Culture of Life

In the era of Trump and Whole Woman’s Health, the future of pro-life activism is young, female, secular, and “feminist."

The Progressive Roots of the Pro-Life Movement

A new book looks at the history of anti-abortion advocacy before Roe v. Wade, arguing that today’s activists are much different than their predecessors.

Why Do Pro-Life Activists Seem Only to Care About Unborn Lives?

Why, as I look out on the sea of signs at today’s the March for Life, do I see nothing about maternity leave, much less paternity leave? Why aren’t expansive parental leave policies front and center on every pro-life website, and on the lips of every pro-life politician? Why does every speaker fail to mention contraception? Why isn’t sex education front and center on every pro-life website, and on the lips of every pro-life politician? Why is adoption mentioned only in passing, if it is mentioned at all?

Why I Am Pro-Life

The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth. That radical narrowing of our concern for the sanctity of life is leading to terrible distortions in our society.

Why the Anti-Abortion Movement Stopped Making Allowances for Rape and Incest

The mainstream anti-abortion groups that now argue against exceptions make a simple claim: If even the earliest abortion is murder, then surely such exceptions are morally unreasonable.

The Long, Cruel History of the Anti-Abortion Crusade

Abortion opponents don’t care what happens to an unwanted child, and they’ve never cared about the mother.

Are You Pro-Life? Then You Should Support California’s Progressive Sex Education Policy.

Abortion is a difficult moral issue with competing concerns over female reproductive autonomy and the sacredness of what many people believe are prenatal human lives. But one thing virtually all people can agree on is that significantly lowering the abortion rate by lowering the rate of unwanted pregnancies, especially among teens, is a fantastic achievement. So it is big news that in liberal California the abortion rate has fallen at double the rate that it has fallen nation-wide.