A pro-life guide to abortion, Planned Parenthood, FAQs, and more

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

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

Woman dies after abortion at Planned Parenthood

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.

Debunking Planned Parenthood's "3%" Abortion Myth

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

Taxpayer Funding of Abortion at Planned Parenthood

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

How the Sexual Revolution Hijacked 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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