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Life Advocacy believes restoration of America’s culture of Life will be achieved only through a better informed electorate. The public’s supposed support for the anti-life agendas of readily available abortions, utilitarian medical experimentation and quality-of-life approaches to disability, stems largely from misperceptions about the radical nature both of the so-called “pro-choice,” biotech and right-to-die lobbies and of current laws on abortion and medical decision-making in America.
Average citizens are deceived because the anti-Life lobbies and their media accomplices have effectively clouded the true issues. Restoring justice and mercy to our nation’s laws requires a change of mind, along with a change of heart.
The most certain way to change minds is relentless truth telling through strategic rhetoric and appeal.
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Model Advocate
The questioning by Rep. Brandon Gill (TX) of the SPLC CEO is a model for unabashed, tactical advocacy for the protection of America’s unborn babies. We commend it to our visitors. If you do not wish to see the segment on the implications of a Nazi tattoo — which dominates the beginning of this exchange — skip to around 3 minutes/30 seconds. Enjoy Rep. Gill’s skill and persistence and take in the sobering reality of the point he is making.
Looking for a rescue for your unborn baby?
Even if you have taken the first pill in the abortion-pill combo, there may still be time to turn back.
An organization called Heartbeat International operates a rescue service. Here is what their website offers:
“If you or someone you know took the abortion pill and regret it, there may still be time. The Abortion Pill Rescue Network provides free and confidential care 24/7. Call us at 877.558.0333 or go to AbortionPillReversal.com now. There may still be time to save your pregnancy.”
May God bless you and your baby.
Wisdom from the ages for the ages to come: Justice Clarence Thomas addresses University of Texas Law School on April 16, 2026
Kevin Burnette, RIP
It is with deep sorrow and eternal hope that we report the passing of our colleague and co-founder of Life Advocacy, Kevin Burnette, truly the genius behind the contribution we seek to make to the cause of Life. Kevin was a rarity – a strategic consultant who was also a man of principle. We are thankful for our assurance he was also a man of deep faith. He will be missed by many, and our nation is the weaker for his having left us.
Mark Crutcher, RIP
WHAT A BLESSING our brother-in-arms Mark Crutcher has been throughout his professional life. On March 9, 2023, he went home to his Savior, having suffered a heart attack at the age of 74.
Mark Crutcher founded Life Dynamics in 1992 to promulgate his strategies for penetrating the consciences of Americans with the truth about abortion, across a spectrum of perspectives.
His groundbreaking book Lime 5 shocked many Americans with true stories of the abuse of aborting mothers by abortion racketeers. His powerful video Maafa 21 nailed the abortion industry’s persistent racism. His investigations uncovered the abuse of teens by abortionists. The rhetorical tactics he employed always, always put the abortion advocate on defense and opened minds of those who have fallen for the abortion cartel’s euphemisms and distortions.
Mark Crutcher has gone to his reward, but his life work lives on via the Life Dynamics website, where the books and videos and exposes are available to the public: https://lifedynamics.com. A wealth of information and resources can be found there. We urge our readers to check it out. And to pray for Mark’s family and many friends and admirers in this unexpected loss.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
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Abortion is not health care. Here is what it is.
Get Ready!
Jan. 22, 2022, commentary by Penny Pullen, president, Life Advocacy Resource Project
While the Supreme Court mulls its upcoming ruling in the Dobbs case reviewing the constitutionality of Mississippi’s post-15-week abortion ban, pro-life citizens – particularly those involved in pro-life advocacy or ministry organizations – are contemplating (or should be) the impact the Court’s ruling will have on society and on their own work.
Based on history, it is important for all of us to do that, for the questions and comments of the Justices during the Dobbs oral arguments December 1 suggest a majority on the high court will – at the least – conclude that the Mississippi statute can stand. Beyond that, it is, as many observers have stated, entirely possible that a majority of the Justices will go so far as to vacate the 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion that upended America’s jurisprudential embrace of the right to life of all human beings, born and unborn.
Much as we long for that outcome, we need to face the expected late-June Dobbs ruling not just as cause for celebration (ranging from modest to jubilant) but as a time when America will be shaken up as a result. There are two camps in the abortion wars, after all. It is critical that the pro-life side gear up, for the abortion cartel most surely are doing that even now. Why do I think this? Because of what I observed (and experienced) the last time the abortion lobby feared Roe was going down.
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Truth to Power
March 25, 2020, Wall Street Journal op-ed by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
The morning after I narrowly lost my Congressional seat in last week’s Illinois Democratic Primary, I decided to make a public statement and answer questions from the press. With the current wretched state of political discourse, I felt it important to be gracious in defeat.
One adviser said that I should focus on what our team accomplished for my constituents on transportation, the environment, jobs and quality of life. That was tempting; I am proud of our legacy. But a friend told me to be prepared for one question: “Looking back, would you have done anything different?” Abortion advocacy groups poured millions into my opponent’s campaign. If I had simply changed my position on abortion, there probably wouldn’t have been a contest. Abortion proponents wanted to hear me express regret about sticking with my pro-life beliefs.
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This abortionist realized he was doing Nazi work, never killed another baby
By Nancy Flanders | September 17, 2019
‘After a year of performing the abortions … it came to me that I was doing the same thing. I was doing exactly the same thing.’
As New Zealand moves to decriminalize abortion, two videos by a former abortionist are gaining a lot of attention. In one of the videos, he explains the second-trimester surgical abortion known as a D&E. In the other, he shares his pro-life conversion story, in which he had a realization about the Holocaust and abortion.
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Abby Johnson: Planned Parenthood isn’t about health care, it’s about abortion – That’s why I quit
By Abby Johnson | July 28, 2019
Planned Parenthood ousts president amid ‘differences’
Dr. Leana Wen, the first physician to lead Planned Parenthood in nearly 50 years, is out of a job less than a year after she took over; Garrett Tenney reports.
I am not prone to shedding tears or being overly emotional. I prefer to use my innate sarcasm and wit instead of crying when emotion hits harder than I expect. But when I read Dr. Leana Wen’s tweet about being shoved out of Planned Parenthood, where she served as president, I cried.
Tears seemed like an appropriate response as I stood in solidarity with Wen. I was reminded of my own loss of security and friendships when I left Planned Parenthood 10 years ago.
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The Unborn’s Transcendent Right to Life: A Personal Letter to the Pro-Life Movement from President Ronald Reagan
Reprinted from National Right to Life News, Oct. 11, 1984, Page One
As America looks forward to the second half of the 1980s and beyond, our Nation faces a clear political choice. Two very different views about America – who we are and what we can become – are competing to lead our great country into the future.
I think that Americans involved in the noble work of the pro-life movement will agree that the difference between those competing views is no more striking than on the tragic issue of abortion.
Recently, some of our political opponents have tried to further their cause by belatedly assuming the mantle of traditional family values. They talk about family, about concern for less fortunate Americans. And they portray themselves as the “party of compassion.”
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Video on Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Scandal – “PROFIT”
Undercover video footage released by The Center for Medical Progress shows medical directors and executives from the top leadership of Planned Parenthood admitting the abortion business trades baby body parts for money and indicating the profit motive undergirding these illicit sales. To date, Planned Parenthood has offered no convincing explanation for the money that has poured into its affiliates from fetal tissue procurement companies like StemExpress, which performs the work of fetal tissue collection yet still pays abortion clinics per harvested part.
Planned Parenthood’s recent assurances that it has ceased accepting payment for fetal tissue are an admission of guilt and a last-ditch effort to avoid scrutiny for these indefensible transactions. As Congress, the Health and Human Services Department, and numerous state and local law enforcement agencies continue to investigate Planned Parenthood’s barbaric abortion and baby body parts business, this footage is a clear reminder of why there is a broad public mandate for the investigations to continue and for public money to be reassigned from Planned Parenthood to ethical, mainstream medical organizations.
Dr. Coburn Gives Tribute to His Chief of Staff, Michael Schwartz
Note: At the time of this speech to the U.S. Senate, Michael Schwartz was chief of staff to Sen. Tom Coburn MD. He was the founding editor of Life Advocacy Briefing in 1994. We will always be grateful to the Lord for our friendship with Mike and for his inestimable value to the development and eventual victory of the American campaign to restore the right to life. Mr. Schwartz passed away Saturday, February 3, 2013.