Below is a helpful pro-life primer, or guide, containing information on issues that Live Action News supporters are often seeking. Contained in this guide is information about abortion, pro-life facts, fetal development, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, abortion procedures and statistics, the women’s movement, and more.
Roe v. Wade
- Information on three cases that shaped United States abortion law.
- Who was behind the push for legalized abortion? (Video here)
- VIDEO: The true story behind Roe v. Wade (articles here and here)
- Norma McCorvey was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade. Read about her here, here, here, and here.
- Norma McCorvey’s pro-life conversion
- The inside story of Roe v Wade
- Information about state laws prior to Roe
- Six lies of Roe v. Wade
- Five things every woman should know about Roe v. Wade
- Ten reasons against Roe v. Wade
- Health Exception, abortions in all nine months of pregnancy
- ANALYSIS‘AKA Jane Roe’ filmmakers falsely accused pro-lifers of paying off Norma McCorvey
- No, abortion numbers today are not the same as they were before Roe v. Wade
Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade
Doe v. Bolton
- Facts about Sandra Cano, plaintiff in Doe v. Bolton
- Three cases that shaped US abortion law
- Seven facts you might not know about abortion
- Health Exception, abortions in all nine months of pregnancy
- Characteristics of women who obtain abortions
First trimester abortion
- Abortion pills (medication or chemical abortion)
- Vacuum aspiration (surgical) abortion
- How a first trimester abortion works
- Deaths/complications from abortion pills
- Former abortionist testifies before Congress
Second trimester (late-term) abortion
- D&E abortion
- Statistics about second and third trimester abortion [Updated for 2017] [CDC and Guttmacher] [21 weeks and up]
- CDC’s 2019 data
- Live Action‘s Inhuman investigations
- Video: Baby born at 22 weeks
Third trimester (late-term) abortion
- Induction (induced labor) abortion
- Statistics about second and third trimester abortion [Updated for 2017] [CDC and Guttmacher] [21 weeks and up]
- CDC’s 2019 data
- Debunking myths about third trimester abortion
- Video: Planned Parenthood lobbyist describes what happens when a baby survives abortion
Fetal Development
- Fetal development
- When does life begin?
- Prenatal development and types of abortion
- Facts about fetal development that were known at the time of Roe’s passage
- Human heartbeat begins (more here)
- Early abortion kills a human being
- Listen to fetal heartbeats as young as five weeks
- Video: Fetal development week by week
- Article in Harvard Law Journal concludes: The preborn child is a constitutional person
Common questions:
- “What about rape/incest, life of the mother, or a challenging prenatal diagnosis?”
- A rape survivor speaks about abortion
- “What about when a woman’s rights and a preborn child’s rights seem to conflict?”
- “If abortion were no longer legal, wouldn’t women just get unsafe, illegal abortions?”
- “Is abortion sometimes medically necessary?”
- For more, visit our Pro-Life Replies page.
Abortion statistics:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2019
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2018
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2016
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2015
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2014
- Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate“) for 2014
- Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate“) for 2017
- Why the CDC’s annual abortion numbers are understated
- Reasons women give for seeking abortion
- Statistics about second and third trimester abortion (2017), here and here and here
- Repeat abortions
- Data by race can be viewed at Live Action News here (Guttmacher – 2017), here (CDC – 2016), here (CDC-2018), and here (CDC-2019).
Abortion safety:
- Live Action investigation, “Planned Parenthood lies about abortion risks”
- Watch HUSH documentary on breast cancer and abortion (summary here)
- Abortion pill complications should not be buried or ignored
- Seven reasons to question the safety of the abortion pill
Planned Parenthood:
- Debunking the myth claiming that abortions are just 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services
- Founder Margaret Sanger: a eugenics proponent who spoke to the KKK, still honored by Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood’s deep connections to eugenics
- Planned Parenthood’s host of abuses
- Planned Parenthood’s 2017-2018 annual report, decreasing services, abortions, government funding
- Planned Parenthood’s 2018-2019 annual report, decreasing services, abortions, government funding
- Twelve things media won’t tell you about Planned Parenthood
- How Planned Parenthood began in the abortion business, four parts: here, here, here, and here
- How Planned Parenthood uses tax dollars, Title X to fund abortion. Read here and here
- Live Action’s abortion videos vs. Planned Parenthood’s abortion videos
- Live Action investigation, Disturbing Sexual Advice
- Live Action investigation, Child Sex Trafficking Cover-up
- Live Action investigation, Abortion Corporation
- Live Action investigation, Aiding Abusers
- Live Action investigation, Sexual Abuse Cover-up
- Live Action investigation, Racially Motivated Donations
- Live Action investigations, Medical Misinformation
- Watch Live Action videos on Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood’s ‘Political Money Laundering Scheme’
- Planned Parenthood’s 2019-2020 annual report, decreasing services, abortions, government funding
- Sign petition to defund Planned Parenthood.
Taxpayer-funded abortions:
- When taxpayers fund abortion, more abortions happen
- More than half of abortions in Medicaid-coverage states are taxpayer funded.
- Taxpayer-funding increases abortions.
- Alaska, California, Maryland, New Mexico, New York
Women’s movement:
- Video: How the Sexual Revolution Hijacked the Women’s Movement
- Women’s movement and the sexual revolution.
- Cosmo and the women’s movement, unlikely allies
- Playboy, Hugh Hefner, and abortion
- Betty Friedan, National Organization for Women (NOW), NARAL, Larry Lader, Bernard Nathanson: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
- How pro-abortion men hijacked the women’s movement
- Video: Pro-life Feminism
Other:
- Eight questions that reveal why Roe v. Wade goes against reason
- “If women do not have abortions they will die,” statistics on illegal abortions, lies that were told
- Seven facts you might not know about abortion
- Top ten reasons abortion is not the answer
- Black women oppose abortion as “Black genocide”
- Video: Lila Rose, Creating a Culture of Life
- Lila Rose debates NARAL head on abortion
- Watch people change their minds on abortion: here, here, here. More on the Live Action YouTube channel here.
- Live Action investigation, Sex-Selective abortion
- Live Action investigations
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