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When Carol St. Amour became pregnant the first time, she wanted to keep her baby, but her boyfriend Jim made it clear he wanted her to have an abortion. He threatened to leave her if she gave birth. In the book “Life Stories,” St. Amour shared her story of forced abortion and regret. St. Amour described herself at the time as a “pro-choice feminist,” but she didn’t want to raise her baby without a father. She said, “He stated he did not want me to have the baby, and that if I did, he’d leave me. I was crushed. I...

In a book of stories of men and women hurt by abortion, Robin Buckner describes being pressured into an abortion by her boyfriend and workers at Planned Parenthood. She describes the Planned Parenthood facility by saying, “It was cold, the staff was calloused and used high-pressure tactics.” She says they took her money immediately, “even before they got any information regarding my body or health.” Before her abortion, Buckner was shown a three- to four-minute “educational” video. She says the video didn’t prepare her for the trauma of the abortion or its aftermath: I was treated like a lab rat....

A book intended to help people hurt by abortion featured the story of Kay, who was coerced by her mother into an abortion at age 16. When Kay first learned she was pregnant, she wanted to abort. But then she spoke to a friend, who convinced her to choose life for her baby. Kay began to look forward to the birth of her child and adjust to the idea of being a mother. But when she told her own mother, the woman flew into a rage and demanded that Kay have an abortion. Kay says: My resolve [to have the...

January is both Human Trafficking Awareness Month and Sanctity of Human Life Month. These issues have more in common than people may realize. Across numerous global studies of sex-trafficking survivors, abortion is a consistent part of the story. Both abortion and sex-trafficking are businesses that exploit women, sometimes in tandem as organizations such as Planned Parenthood enable the abuse for profit. And both are an affront to human dignity. Pimps Use Abortion to Maximize Profits The risk of pregnancy is part of the sex-trafficking industry. Pimps and sex-traffickers are most concerned with profits, so when their victims become pregnant, they...

The moment when the bully asks her pregnant girlfriend and for abortion Leah Collard was mentally and physically abused by her former David Rhys Williams in a six-year nightmare. The 29-year-old was forbidden to see his friends, who were usually called “fat and ugly” and brutally assaulted. On one occasion, Leah managed to secretly record Williams, strangling her after the couple separated on New Year’s Eve 2013 while she was pregnant. The awed Leah can be heard shouting “Release me, leave me the s***” while the bully laughs in the background, Then Leah screams: “Don’t do this for me, I’m...

Americans United for Life president & CEO Catherine Glenn Foster was not always an advocate for life. There was a day when she nervously walked into an abortion clinic with her boyfriend and underwent an abortion. She had already been “bonding” with the baby, 38-year-old Foster told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I was walking around campus in my boyfriend’s sweatshirt,” she said. “I was talking to her.” But Foster and her boyfriend at the time did not think they had other options available to them. She was 19, he was 20, and they did not understand how to cope...

A 42-year-old man, Taofeek Oyeyemi, has reportedly impregnated his 16-year-old daughter at Ewekoro area of Ogun State. Taofeek, who was also accused of procuring abortion for the victim after taking her to a quack medical practitioner, was apprehended by the police. Incidentally, the suspect has 17 children from different women. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect was nabbed following a complaint from the mother of the victim. The PPRO added that the suspect decided to take the teenage girl for abortion so that his secret would not be exposed. According to...

A former Texas police officer has admitted that he fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend, reversing his not guilty plea and bringing his capital murder case to a close just months before he was scheduled to go on trial. Ex-Austin officer VonTrey Clark will be sentenced to life in prison without parole under the plea agreement, the Austin American-Statesmen reported. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty. Clark, 36, read his confession in the Bastrop County state District Court on Monday afternoon. Among those gathered in the courtroom was 29-year-old Samantha Dean's family and supporters. ...Clark, who has a family with another...

NBC News is under fire after the news agency described a crime where a man forced a woman at gun point to take an abortion pill as "a miscarriage." The article was written by reporter Doha Madani and details the criminal charges against Jagmeet Sandhu of Bakersfield, California, who is said to have held his girlfriend at gunpoint until she took abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy. In the story's lede, Madani described the outcome of the forced abortion as a "miscarriage." A 23-year-old California man is facing a murder charge for allegedly forcing his pregnant girlfriend to ingest pills...

California cops have arrested a man they say forced his pregnant girlfriend to take drugs at gunpoint so she would have a miscarriage. Jagmeet Sandhu, 23, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder, domestic assault and false imprisonment, Bakersfield Police said. Cops say one of the woman’s relatives contacted police shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday to say the unidentified victim “had been held at gunpoint and forced by her boyfriend to ingest numerous unknown-type pills in an effort to force a miscarriage.” Officers located the woman at a local hospital where she allegedly confirmed the relative’s statement. “The victim did...

A young woman is suing West Virginia health officials after she said they failed to protect her from her father’s sexual abuse. The AP reports 21-year-old “Jane Doe” said her father raped and impregnated her when she was 11 years old, and her stepmother took her to have an abortion to cover up the abuse. Doe, whose real name is not used for privacy reasons, said the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources failed to protect her when it removed her from foster care and placed her in her biological father’s home, according to the report. Her lawsuit,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The American economy is in turmoil but the Obama administration sent a $50 million check yesterday to the United Nations Population Fund. That's the pro-abortion group that has been accused of supporting and working in concert with Chinese family planning officials.There, the Chinese population control program has relied on forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations and other human rights abuses to enforce its rule that most couples may have no more than one child.The Bush administration had withheld the funds because of the UNFPA-China population control program ties, but Obama signed a bill reversing those limits and...

The State Department painted it as an elegant way out of a ballooning crisis involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng — but by day’s end, it looked like a disgraceful performance by US diplomats. Initial reports had Chen so pleased by the deal that he told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “I want to kiss you.” The agreement Clinton negotiated with Beijing yesterday supposedly allowed Cheng to stay in China and get medical attention, with the authorities guaranteeing his future safety. But things started unraveling just hours after the compromise was inked. First, while State claims Chen never wanted to leave...

Marie Ideson was 16 weeks pregnant when she found out her baby had Down syndrome. Ideson originally wanted to keep her baby. She recounts hearing the news: A woman said, “I’m sorry to say your baby has Down.” It was devastating. My first thought was, how will we cope? I told Allan [her husband] I wanted to keep the baby and he agreed. But Ideson was about to experience intense pressure to abort. She had hoped that the doctor she was seeing would support the decision to keep the baby. Instead: … doctors said she could be born needing emergency...

She scrubbed in like she usually did. Their patient, she was told, had just lost her baby. It was supposed to be a routine procedure — the kind they usually perform after a miscarriage. Turns out, nothing about the procedure was routine. When she met the doctor, he had an apologetic look in his eye. “Please don’t hate me,” he said. The woman’s baby, the nurse discovered, hadn’t died. They were there to destroy it. Shocked, the nurse turned and asked to be relieved. No, they answered. Faced with losing her job, she did something that’s traumatized her ever since:...

Filmmaker Nanfu Wang grew up in rural China under the country's one-child policy, which was announced in 1979 and not officially rescinded until 2015. Born in 1985, Wang never knew a life without it — as a kid, she remembers seeing propaganda promoting the rule everywhere. "At some point, it just became a normal part of life, just like the air, the water, the tree," she says. "And you just stop paying attention, stop questioning, because it has always been there." There were propaganda matchboxes, lunchboxes, murals and songs on TV...

A New York City woman is facing charges after she allegedly sold abortion drugs illegally over the internet, including to a man accused of trying to force his girlfriend to take them. The Daily Register reports Ursula Wing, 41, of New York City, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court. She is charged with misbranding a prescription drug and conspiracy to defraud. Authorities said Wing sold the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol using an online jewelry business as a front. U.S. law requires that the dangerous drugs be prescribed and distributed by a licensed physician. According to the report, some...

If abortion is made illegal, it will still happen anyway.” That’s the claim commonly made by abortion advocates when politicians speak of restricting or criminalizing abortion. But the fact that abortion is legal in society — and presented as an “easy” solution to an unplanned pregnancy — has made many people view it as more acceptable. Legality frequently equates to morality in people’s minds. The question is, would women who choose legal abortion truly still choose it if it were made illegal? We can’t know for sure. But we can find out if those who chose it would have chosen...

FULL TITLE: EXCLUSIVE: Murdered Ole Miss student Ally Kostial, 21, was 'PREGNANT with accused killer's baby' and was shot shortly after she told him and refused when he demanded that she have an abortion Mississippi college student Ally Kostial was pregnant with her accused killer Brandon Theesfeld's child and told him the news shortly before she was murdered, close friends of the coed claim in exclusive interviews with DailyMailTV. One college student, who also attends the University of Mississippi, known as Ole Miss, told DailyMailTV: 'Her sorority sisters knew she was pregnant and that she had told Brandon. He was...

Catherine Glenn Foster, president of Americans United for Life, was 19 when she had abortion. She changed her mind, but was forced by abortion workers to go through with the abortion: “I went into that center because I thought I had no choice. I thought I had no other option. And I was terrified. “I found there was coercion, lack of information, at times outright lies, at times force.” She changed her mind on the abortion table, and tried to get up: “I asked to get up. I said ‘please let me up. Let me off this table, out of...