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Nor are parents generally aware of the extent to which abortion has become part of routine obstetric care when it is determined that a baby has a disability. Results of an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) survey reported that ninety percent of the doctors responding considered abortion because of fatal fetal anomaly a justifiable treatment option, and 63% considered abortion a justifiable treatment option because of a non-fatal anomaly. Using a simple semantic slight of hand abortion becomes a treatment option, and medical professionals effectively disengage from the baby with a prenatal diagnosis, and signal that it is reasonable for the parents to do the same. As a result abortion is often presented as the only option to parents who have already bonded with, loved, and named their baby.

Research, however, suggests that many parents are in fact looking for some other option. Most will choose to continue their pregnancy if offered a program of comprehensive support. Parents want something better than abortion. They want someone to affirm the dignity of their child and to accompany them on the lonely and unfamiliar path from the diagnosis to the birth.

With tens of millions of abortions since the high court’s decision and research confirming abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer, undoubtedly a large number of breast cancer cases, caused by abortion, have occurred over the last 38 years.

Professor Joel Brind, an endocrinologist at Baruch College in New York, worked with several scientists on a 1996 paper published in the Journal of Epidemiol Community Health showing a “30% greater chance of developing breast cancer” for women who have induced abortions. He recently commented on how many women have become victims.

“If we take the overall risk of breast cancer among women to be about 10% (not counting abortion), and raise it by 30%, we get 13% lifetime risk,” Brind explains. Using the 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade figure, we get 1.5 million excess cases of breast cancer. At an average mortality of 20% since 1973, that would mean that legal abortion has resulted in some 300,000 additional deaths due to breast cancer since Roe v. Wade.”

This Easter, 31-year-old Abigail Seidman  will take communion as a Roman Catholic for the first time.  Taken alone,  this is hardly earth shaking. But Seidman is no ordinary convert. Seidman is the  daughter of a former nurse at the Toledo, Ohio Center for Choice, the latest  former-feminist to take center stage as an anti-choice activist.

Her own abortion, she continues, caused  tremendous grief, and Seidman tells any-and-all that, before becoming a  believer, each anniversary was marked by despair. “I’d been to counseling and  was on anti-depressant drugs but nothing was working. When I went online all the  post-abortion sites said that healing begins with Jesus. I thought to myself,  ‘Jesus won’t accept me,’ but I bought a Bible anyway and started reading. One  afternoon I prayed, ‘If you’re out there and if I’m acceptable to you, I will  accept you.’ I instantly felt something—a strange feeling… There’s no  forgiveness in atheism. The things you do just stack up.”

Soon I was baptized. Mother helped me to get my GED, and I got my first job working as a receptionist.  I began to attend youth activities, and the church became a lifeline that pulled me out of the fog of grief, sorrow, and guilt after my years with Steven. I found forgiveness in Jesus. I forgave myself, I forgave my mother and stepfather, and I prayed for the grace to forgive Steven. 

I gained the confidence to move out and enroll in college. I rented a room of my own from an elderly widow who lived near the campus.  That is when I met Joseph, who is now my husband. 

My husband is my true hero. He has been a loving husband, a generous father, and hard-working provider for our family. My husband loves me and has forgiven me from his heart and has not let my past define his understanding of who I am as a person. If I had kept my baby I believe Joseph and I would still be married today, and our lives would be richer because of his presence in our family. God has been generous in giving us the joy of children and grandchildren who are a constant reminder of God’s presence in our life.  I am amazed at the way God has protected me over the years. 

Today I am a pro-life Roman Catholic, the mother of seven children, and this year my husband and I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary.  Joseph and I have six children of our own, and I give thanks for each of them, as they are truly a gift from God.  We are also legal guardians to a beautiful little girl whose young mother made the choice for life in a difficult pregnancy, and then entrusted her to our care.

Joseph and I joined the Catholic Church, as adults through the RCIA process in 1992.  The Catholic Church’s teaching on respect for life, as well as the sacrament of confession, has brought me an even deeper level of healing and peace.  We have been active in ministries within the church that support the family, marriage and respect for life. 

A federal judge has declined a request by the Planned Parenthood abortion  business to issue a temporary restraining order blocking a new state law Governor  Mitch Daniels signed that yanks its taxpayer funding.

The legislation would cut off anywhere from $2 million to $3 million the  Planned Parenthood abortion business receives in federal funds via the Indiana  government through Medicaid. It also bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy  based on fetal pain.

On Wednesday, Laura Ingrahm took up the issue, and interviewed one of the leaders behind the billboard. But she also put out a call for someone to call in who supported abortion — a man named Will took her up on the challenge.

Will is a black man who paid for his college-aged daughter to get an abortion, and said he doesn’t regret it. That pained Ingraham, who asked him on live radio if he considered the aborted child his grandchild. No, Will said, he doesn’t:

Twin brothers Taylor and Tyler wouldn't be here without the help  of guardian angels in heaven and on earth.

"Now, I can't believe that it ever crossed my mind," Daniella said  of the day she came to Little Rock to get an abortion. "I have two beautiful  children. I told my mom, 'I have two babies,' and she said, 'That's right, you  do.' I had to kiss them and hold them very tight."

Daniella (whose last name is withheld to protect her privacy)  became a mother Dec. 28, but her journey began long before that date.

This summer, she had an appointment at Little Rock Family Planning  Services to get an abortion but decided against it after sidewalk helper Maria  Maldonado, who regularly prays outside the abortion clinic in west Little Rock,  urged her to request to see her ultrasound.

Maldonado, a member of Christ the King Church in Little Rock, and  other prayer warriors prayed for Daniella while she was inside the clinic and  continued to help her throughout her pregnancy.

They threw her a baby shower in November and were at the hospital  when the babies were born. Daniella's story was  featured in the Dec. 4 issue of Arkansas Catholic and was instantly  shared by e-mail and Facebook across the country.

"I got to meet a lot of people. I think I met every one of the  prayer warriors," Daniella said during a phone interview with Arkansas  Catholic. "The labor and delivery area was full of people."

Taylor and Tyler weren't born on Christmas Day when they were due.  The two were born in the early morning Dec. 28 at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical  Center in Little Rock.

Dec. 28 is not without significance -- it is the feast of the Holy  Innocents, which commemorates the massacre of all Jewish boys 2 years old and  younger in Bethlehem and surrounding areas, ordered by King Herod. Joseph fled  to Egypt with Mary and the baby Jesus, which spared him. On Dec. 28 the Church  and pro-life community often remember children who have died because of abortion  or children who have died because of miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.  

"They're gaining weight good and eating and crying a lot,"  Daniella said. "My mom has them spoiled rotten already."

Daniella, 19, is adamant about helping other women.

"I have a story to tell and if telling it can result in stopping  someone

Dolan gathered with other religious leaders on Thursday to  draw attention to the city’s high abortion rate. The city health department last  month released statistics that showed 41 percent of pregnancies were terminated  in 2009.

While the numbers have declined in the last decade, the  religious leaders said they are still too high.

Dolan said the practice is unlikely to end but that it was  important ‘to tell people what is happening.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that the religious leaders  also criticized public schools sex education programs that include condom  distribution.