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When abortion activists failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a partial-birth abortion ban in 2007, they learned an important lesson: Stories matter. The story of Sandra Cano, the woman behind the Roe v. Wade companion case Doe v. Bolton who later came to regret her abortion, made an important impact on moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy when he voted to uphold the partial-birth abortion ban. Since then, abortion activists seem to have learned their lesson. As the high court considers a new abortion case out of Texas, they have flooded the court and the mainstream media with stories...

As we wrote in “Set to abort, mother who changed her mind says without her son, ‘I wouldn’t have had a purpose yet,’” The Cincinnati Enquirer, no hotbed of pro-life sentiment, ran a series of six stories headlined “Abortion: The most important decision of her life–How six women, who each considered abortion, made their decision.” Our first post was on Brittany Davis who had intended to abort but by mistake wound up in the parking lot of a CPC. She realized she really didn’t want to have an abortion and now is the proud and happy mother of Liam. This...