Nation's First Government-Funded Abortion Alternatives Program Helps 20,000 Women in 2007-08

LifeSiteNews ^ | HARRISBURG, PA, January 13, 2009

[GonzoII]

Tuesday January 13, 2009

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Nation's First Government-Funded Abortion Alternatives Program Helps 20,000 Women in 2007-08

HARRISBURG, PA, January 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Real Alternatives, the statewide program administrator for the award winning Pennsylvania Alternative to Abortion Services Program, has reported that in fiscal year 2007 -2008 a record 19,742 women were provided comprehensive counseling, mentoring, and support.

In 2007-2008 the program received its highest funding of $6.5 million per year by the Commonwealth's Department of Public Welfare.

"We have seen a steady decrease in annual abortions since the start of the program 13 years ago," said Kevin Bagatta, Real Alternatives President & CEO. "To date, the citizens of Pennsylvania have placed $59 million of tax payer funds to provide pregnancy and parenting support services to 150,000 women experiencing an unplanned or crisis pregnancy. We are striving for the day when no woman in the Commonwealth feels that she must have an abortion – that is what the program is about."

In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, 118 Real Alternatives-funded pregnancy support centers, Catholic Charities, maternity homes, and adoption agencies throughout the Commonwealth provided services to 19,742 women at 83,263 visits. There is a center within an hour of every woman in Pennsylvania. Since its inception 13 years ago, the Pennsylvania Alternative to Abortion Services Program [www.realalternatives.org/movie] has served over 150,000 women at over 645,329 office visits.

Bagatta said, "This state-funded support program is the only program to lower abortions after there is a crisis pregnancy. It continues to work because of the approximately 500 counselors and mentors statewide meeting the needs of women in unplanned and crisis pregnancies.

“By providing a counselor to be with the woman in need from the moment she finds out she is pregnant to 12 months after the birth of the baby, this program empowers her to overcome her obstacles and crisis. She is not alone. She knows someone is with her to help her. An alternative to abortion is not a pamphlet, it is another person … it is one woman seeing another woman in crisis and loving her and supporting her like she is her own daughter. This program represents the best in America."

To see a movie about this successful program visit: www.realalternatives.org/movie 

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[Dick Bachert]

These are my two youngest grandchildren (of 6). While I freely admit that raising little ones is a challenge, ALL of them have brought us more joy than we thought possible.

WARNING: POSSIBLY DISTURBING IMAGE (FOR PRO-LIFERS).

YOU PRO-ABORTS WILL FIND IT GRATIFYING.

THESE little ones had grandparents somewhere who WILL NEVER KNOW THEM. The sadness of that should overwhelm us all.

Time to stop sugar-coating this subject. The REAL reason the radical feminists NEED abortion on demand is so they can remain sexually promiscuous and, should the pill or their other contraceptive technique fail them, they can simply have the “thing” scraped or sucked out.

This shot was taken by a pro-life activist behind an abortuary. But those aren’t human babies. The One has told us so.

ALL HAIL “THE ONE!”

[GonzoII]

Ping.

[the invisib1e hand]

nobody who publishes pictures of dead babies thinks he's doing anything but the heavy lifting of the pro life cause.

I think it's gratuitous does violence to the dignity of human life to do so indiscriminantly.

If one of those babies was yours, I doubt you'd be pushing that picture around so carelessly.

[the invisib1e hand]

...gratuitous and does violence...

[Dick Bachert]

That IS a painful image, isn’t it?

THAT’S WHY I POSTED IT!!!! I hope it BURNED A HOLE IN YOUR SOUL!

And, for any number of reasons, NONE of those babies would be MINE!

Perhaps you’re reaction is because YOU recognize one of them??

I suspect you’re also one of the folks who believes that God will somehow help America in this time of tribulation and turmoil. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you as I seriously doubt a JUST GOD would help a nation that has MURDERED millions of its helpless unborn.

To paraphrase the Greeks “Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.” America is in the throes of a possibly terminal madness.

[the invisib1e hand]

Perhaps you’re reaction is because YOU recognize one of them??

You're a really sick pup. And it's people with your mentality that march the cause of the dignity of life in direct reverse, in spite of your self-righteous and self-serving stunts for attention.

This comment proves that you have no clue nor care about the people involved -- what if I were a woman who aborted a child, would your comment move you up a few notches in the eyes of whatever god you pretend you're serving?

I've nailed you on other idiotic posts of yours. I suggest you take a good long hard look at your barbaric self.

[trisham]

Take it easy.

[trebb]

If one of those babies was yours, I doubt you'd be pushing that picture around so carelessly.

That's right, see no evil, hear no evil, there must be no evil. Hiding from the ugly stuff just makes it easier for the evil ones to keep perpetuating it.

Why do you think the pro-abort folks hate to see these kinds of pictures? Because they know that any one with a shred of decency will be sickened by them. Until enough people are exposed to this crap to become sickened and maddened by it, it will keep going on.

Kind of like the MSM not wanting to show pics of folks jumping from the WTC on 9-11 - should they censor that?

[Dick Bachert]

Methinks thou protesteth too much. Please seek therapy. And if you ARE a woman who murdered your baby, perhaps that photo will cause you to think twice before doing so again.

It is now known that MOST of the women who see images of their babies with the new high definition color 3D ultrasound units DO NOT kill go through with their abortions.

The “attention” I sought with that post is for the victims of abortion who normally go into dumpsters (or the large industrial food grinders some abortuaries have installed to prevent photos of this sort from being taken).

And there are at least TWO former abortion candidates somewhere in the world who ARE in the world because I succeeded in talking their mothers (who were friends of my kids at the time) out of terminating their pregnancies.

And YOUR score is_____?.

[Dick Bachert]

Might I suggest you send the same message to whatshisface on the other side of this altercation?

[trisham]

Are you all right?

[trisham]

To be fair, there was a warning preceding the photo in question.

[wagglebee]

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