The Centers for Disease Control released its annual Abortion Surveillance – United States, 2009 report last week.

First came the encouraging news that the number of abortions dropped in 2009 by 5% from 2008, to 784,507, “representing the largest single year decrease for the entire period of analysis,” this past decade.

While the death toll was still a staggering three-quarters of a million babies, nevertheless this was the lowest number of abortions reported since the CDC began using its current tracking model in 2000 (which excludes nonreporting states Alaska, California, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New Hampshire, and West Virginia), the number on the right. Click to enlarge…

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli

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• Wesley J. Smith reports that Pat Robertson is in the news again for making outrageous comments – this time, against adoption!

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Fletcher Armstrong responds to a recent article by Erin McCann opposing a Genocide Awareness Project display:
  

  Ms. McCann’s piece actually illustrates some of the very points we make with our GAP display….

Fox News reported today that a Texas high school coach faces felony charges after giving the morning-after pill to one of her underage 16-yr-old students. There’s the first reason not to make the morning-after pill easily available to adults: Just because an adult buys it doesn’t mean an adult will take it. Shippensburg University in […]

HPV Types 6 and 11 cause about 90% of genital warts cases in females and males. HPV Types 16 and 18 cause about 75% of cervical cancer cases in females. HPV Types 16 and 18 also cause about 70% of vaginal cancer cases and up to 50% of vulvar cancer cases in females. ~ Pharmaceutical manufacturer Gardasil, […]

With the new guidelines, every college student in America will be high-risk…. Right now, it’s probably a prostitute or a guy with a needle in his arm. Next time, it will be just a young guy…. If you were going to give your organ to your mom or dad or sister, you’re going to be […]

Back in the day the birth control pill was the answer to all of anti-life’s problems. Listen to this naive song by Loretta Lynn, recorded in 1972. Read lyrics to “The Pill” here… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcdONaKSQM[/youtube] 53+ million abortions later, “Oh, daddy, don’t you worry none, ’cause mama’s got the pill,” rings a bit hollow. Not to […]

Yesterday Planned Parenthood was excited to post (“Birth Control Girl spotted in our nation’s capital!”) this photo on Twitter… We’ve previously featured Birth Control Girl here, Planned Parenthood’s one weird-looking-woman ad campaign to stop co-pays.