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Wonder of Life

  1. Science for Unborn Human - The site is described as “An objective, fact-based report describing the day-by-day development of the unborn child, with each fact sourced by a reference to the scientific and medical literature. The facts show the unborn child quickly develops the organs and systems that a newborn has. It moves like a newborn. It has senses. It can learn. The author concludes that the unborn child must be a human life and invites interested persons to consider the scientific data.”
  2. Create Health - Amazing 3D/4D Ultrasound pictures can be viewed online. On the Create Health website click the TAB ‘Antenatal Screening’ and select ‘3D/4D Scanning’. Click on the right hand side of the screen to view the ‘Video Journey Through Pregnancy’ showing development of the unborn from 8 weeks to 32 weeks.
  3. Development of a foetus - using 3D embryo modelling and detailed descriptions of the development stages
  4. Diary of an Unborn Child
  5. Human Life begins at the Moment of conception - There are English subtitles. The video begins with the initial cell divisions and can be concluded at 3 minutes. Students and teachers in Catholic Schools may want to watch the speech of Pope John Paul II
  6. The Amazing Facts about the beginning of human life including some notes about twins
  7. All about Ultrasound Imaging

Abortion

  1. Abortion information
    • Abort73 is an online resource designed to creatively and comprehensively educate students about the injustice of abortion, and provide them with simple tools to help pass that education along to others.
    • The Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer provides all the current research to document the link between abortion and breast cancer.
    • Abortion Legal Support is a network of independent lawyers located across Australia and New Zealand who offer a special service to those women who feel they have been harmed by their abortion experience.
    • Life Issues Institute states as their mission, “Assuring, through education, equal protection under the law for all living humans from the beginning of their biological life at fertilization until natural death”.
    • Third Time Around, by George Grant is subtitled, A History of the Pro-Life Movement from the First Century to the Present. The publication is over 230 pages.
    • Prolife – Imagine the potential of every human life, including President Obama a passionate call to clarify the abortion issue.
    • Australian Senator Barnaby Joyce speaks plainly on abortion 14 June 2007.
    • Abortion Facts with links to almost every imaginable group and every type of information.
    • The Centre for Bioethical Reform, on its entry page, contains very graphic information and should not be viewed unless you are prepared to be confronted by graphic images of an abortion.
    • The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute is dedicated to providing the most up-to-date and accurate information to medical professionals and the general public on how to prevent breast cancer.
    • Fatherhood Forever Foundation, Inc. (USA) was created to address the issue of abortion and men and to provide inspiration and restoration to these forgotten fathers.
  2. Methods of Abortion
  3. Racial bias of abortion
    • Too Many Aborted educates the public about abortion’s impact on the African-American community via accurate and documented statistics, historical perspectives, thought-provoking videos, and personal testimonies.
    • Abort73 makes the claim that the abortion industry is a racist institution. Abort73 Gives evidence to prove their claim.
    • Black Genocide is a national network of Christian pro-life/pro-family advocates who are dedicated to protecting the pre-born and promoting traditional family values. One of the primary goals is to facilitate a strong and viable network of African American and minority pro-life/pro-family advocates who support Christian values and want to work to ensure the survival of all races of people, and improve our quality of life without sacrificing our children.
    • Dr Alveda King tells her abortion story in the context of the fight for the human rights of minorities in America. Alveda King is the daughter of Dr A.D. King and niece of Dr Martin Luther King, two statesmen in the struggle for the equality of the minority races.
  4. Roe Vs Wade
    • The most significant abortion decision of the 20th century was made on January 22nd 1973. It was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America called Roe vs Wade . Roe is the pseudonym for Norma McCorvey. The decision continues to have ramifications around the world. A lesser known companion case, Doe vs Bolton , was also passed by the Supreme Court of the United States of America on the same day as Roe vs Wade. Doe is the pseudonym for Sandra Cano. Most significantly both Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano are now strongly pro-life and are seeking to reverse the decisions that bear their names.
    • Celebrities speak out against abortion and say that Roe vs Wade is wrong.
    • USA President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) speaks strongly against abortion.
    • Ronald Reagan’s article “Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation”, on 22 January, 1983 the 10th Anniversary of the Roe vs Wade Decision.
  5. Abortion Stories
    • Vote Yes for Life (USA) Other than the distinctively American Election information there are some excellent links to YouTube interviews and talks.
    • Gianna Jessen tells her story of how she survived a saline abortion. Gianna was in Australia on Monday 8 September 2008 at the time of the passage of the abortion legislation in Victoria. There is more information on her website and her amazing story is also available.
    • Focus on the Family two-part interview (19 and 20 January 2011) with Abby Johnson describing her resignation as the Director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
    • A 12-year-old speaks out on abortion. News articles on 11 February 2009 and 18 February 2009 provide the media response.
    • Young pro-life young women become a voice for the voiceless on Culture Jam for Life.

Healing after abortion

  1. Fatherhood Forever Foundation, Inc. (USA) was created to address the issue of abortion and men and to provide inspiration and restoration to these forgotten fathers.
  2. Unborn Memorials (USA) for all (men and women) who are suffering grief after the loss of a child through stillbirth, abortion or miscarriage
  3. The Elliot Institute is a comprehensive source of research and information on the physical and psychological risks of abortion and the epidemic of unwanted, coerced and forced abortions. Their mission is to help people understand that abortion does not help women, but that it exploits and harms the unborn child, the parents, and all involved.
  4. Bernadette Black and the Brave Foundation is committed to supporting those, especially teenagers, with unexpected pregnancies and providing a list of various counselling agencies across Australia.
  5. Diamond Pregnancy Support is a Sydney based organisation that seeks to provide help and support to women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy.
  6. Pregnancy Problem House is a Perth based organisation seeking to provide a safe environment to assist and educate women during and after their crisis pregnancy.
  7. Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat Ministries (Australia) is a confidential healing ministry for the many people, both men and women, who have been touched by an abortion experience.
  8. Faces of Abortion is a weekly television show in America dedicated to telling the stories of women who have had an abortion and who are also committed to overturning the two 1973 Supreme Court cases that brought legal abortion-on-demand to America. Faces of Abortionfeatures the personal stories of women - many after years of silence - about the long-lasting and harmful effects that exercising their right to choose has cost them. It also features stories of others hurt by abortion.
  9. Forsaken Taunton (UK) is dedicated to reaching out and supporting women who are facing a crisis pregnancy, or who have already gone through with an abortion.
  10. Abortion Legal Support is a network of independent lawyers located across Australia and New Zealand who offer a special service to those women who feel they have been harmed by their abortion experience.

Youtube links

  1. Stories in Music

Pro-life organisations

  1. Australia
    • Life Network Australia is a community of Australians who share a passion for life, a deep concern for parents and their unborn children, and a commitment to life-changing action. Life Network Australia is all about linking together a community of Australians who share the vision of a society where every child is nurtured from conception. By enabling like-minded people to share their concerns, information, enthusiasm, ideas and successes, LNA will release their potential to bring about life-affirming change.
    • Salt Shakers is a distinctly Christian organisation that speaks on all life issues from a Christian perspective. It provides a wealth of research information on many topics including abortion, euthanasia and stem cells. It promotes political action in relation to legislation before State and Federal Parliaments. “Salt Shakers is dedicated to helping Christians understand the times and equipping them to be salt and light in the community by upholding Biblical values and by being more aware of the ethical issues affecting today's society.”
    • 40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program: Prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach. 40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighbourhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America. In 2010 it was recorded that 3 Australian cities  participated in vigils.
    • Day of Silent Solidarity is a day when people will give up their voices for a day in solidarity for those children who will never get a chance to speak. Red arm bands and duct tape will identify them as taking part in the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity. They will carry fliers explaining why they are silent and educate others about the plight of the innocent children we are losing every day.
    • Abortion Legal Support is a network of independent lawyers located across Australia and New Zealand who offer a special service to those women who feel they have been harmed by their abortion experience.
    • Medicine with Morality has a vision to preserve, in an age of rapid scientific and technological change, traditional medical ethics consistent with absolute values and to preserve the liberty of medical professionals holding these values to practise medicine according to their conscience… Medicine with Morality seeks to respond to influences eroding these ethical standards. We do this by way of letters, submissions and statements to Members of Parliament and parliamentary committees considering legislation impacting on these ethical standards. We may also need to make submissions to medical organisations and boards when such matters come before them for consideration.
    • Right to Life Australia works to lobby governments and campaign on identified issues of abortion, euthanasia, infanticide and embryonic stem cell research. Right to Life Australia works at a national level on all issues aimed at protecting human life.
    • Cherish Life Queensland (previously called Queensland Right to Life) is a non-denominational, non-party political association of people who are concerned about issues relating to a person's right to life, especially in relation to abortion, infanticide, embryo experimentation and euthanasia.
    • Pro-Life Victoria is a network of ordinary, everyday people who care deeply about people of all stages of life. We are men and women from all career paths and from all types of religious and non-religious backgrounds. Pro-Life Victoria's mission is to educate, promote the Pro-Life philosophy, and lobby our legislators to pass laws to protect life. Our aim is to raise up a Pro-Life generation, a community of people whose attitude is life affirming and whose laws are life protecting. Pro-Life Victoria cooperates with and supports both interstate and international Pro-Life organisations.
    • Pro-Life South Australia considers the issues of abortion, pregnancy counselling, adoption, post-abortion syndrome and post-abortion counselling, euthanasia, palliative care, stem cell research and embryonic experimentation. Pro-Life SA is dedicated to protecting and securing the most basic right in our society - the life of each and every person must be protected regardless of age, disability, stage of development or degree of dependence on others. Each human being from the moment of fertilisation is a unique person and possesses an intrinsic right to life.
    • ACT Right to Life Association is a non-denominational, non-party political, voluntary community organisation established in 1972 to support the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death. The Association is based in Canberra, Australia's capital city.
    • Lutherans for Life was established by the Lutheran Church of Australia in 1987 to promote respect and protection for human life, born and unborn, since God is its Creator; and to foster community responsibility for the defence of God's gift of human life, especially those whose life others would categorise as unwanted, lacking quality, worthless, or otherwise dispensable. Lutherans for Life co-operates with those persons and organisations who share its aims and values.
    • New South Wales Right to Life values the vulnerable by advocating for the right to life of all human beings from conception to natural death, especially in relation to abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing and invitro fertilisation programs which have no regard for the right to life of the embryo.
    • Family Life International is an international partnership of Catholics working to promote and defend the sanctity of life and the family. FLI, working on every continent, will help to build strong families and protect the unborn, elderly, and infirm. Where children are welcomed into the world in intact families a ‘Culture of Life’ is born.FLI is a non-profit organisation devoted to educating people about the evils of abortion, sterilisation, infanticide, euthanasia, contraception, IVF, cloning and other modern threats to life and family.”
    • Women’s Forum Australia  emerged from a gathering of more than 750 women in December 2004. The gathering sought fresh initiatives to support women who were pregnant in difficult circumstances and provide them with real alternatives that would not present a risk to their health and wellbeing. This forum demonstrated the level of grass roots support for a new organisation, and following this momentum, a founding board was established in 2005. Women’s Forum is an established independent women’s think tank that undertakes research, education and public policy development about social, economic, health and cultural issues affecting women.
    • Creation Ministries International  (Australia) CMI has frequent articles in its Creation magazine and on its website regarding various ethical issues. It upholds a clear Biblical position on life.
    • Creation Research
  2. Overseas
    • Life Site News is a non-profit Internet service dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family. It was launched in September 1997. LifeSiteNews.com Daily News reports are widely circulated reports on important developments in the United States, Canada and around the world. Their purpose is to provide balance and more accurate coverage on culture, life and family matters than is usually given by other media. Available by free daily email subscription.
    • Abort73 is an online resource designed to creatively and comprehensively educate students about the injustice of abortion, and provide them with simple tools to help pass that education along to others.
    • Abortion Facts simply described as “Abortion information you can use..”
    • Society for the Protection of Unborn Children  affirms, defends and promotes the existence and value of human life from the moment of conception, and to defend and protect human life generally; to defend, assist and promote the life and welfare of mothers during pregnancy and of their children from the time of conception up to, during and after birth; to examine existing or proposed laws, legislation or regulations relating to abortion and to support or oppose such as appropriate.
    • Unborn - all about ultrasounds.
    • Roe No More Ministry of Norma McCorvey.
    • Abortion Risks is a site providing opportunities for women and men to submit their stories. Many vital website links are provided.
    • Elliot Institute is one of the leading organizations researching the impact of abortion. In addition, the Elliot Institute serves as a major resource for organizations around the world who are concerned about protecting the rights of women and their unborn children. Their mission also includes educating others about abortion's injustice, trauma, and risk to all involved, and raising awareness of the urgent need for meaningful support and healing.
    • Culture Jam for Life - young pro-life women becoming a voice for the voiceless.
    • Operation Outcry is the ministry of the Justice Foundation to end the pain of abortion by exposing the truth about its devastating impact on women, men and families. We believe that this will be accomplished through prayer and with the testimonies of women and men who have suffered harm from abortion. We are working to restore justice and to protect women, men, and children from the destruction that abortion causes.
    • Human Life International - The mission of HLI is to create effective opposition to the culture of death around the world.
    • American Life League is a grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States. ALL is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. The pro-life position notes that neither abortion nor euthanasia can ever be medically necessary or morally permitted.
    • 40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program: Prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach. 40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighbourhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America.
    • Day of Silent Solidarity is a day when people will give up their voices for a day in solidarity for those children who will never get a chance to speak. Red arm bands and duct tape will identify them as taking part in the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity. They will carry fliers explaining why they are silent and educate others about the plight of the innocent children we are losing every day.
    • Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. They provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles. They support families as they seek to teach their children about God and His beautiful design for the family, protect themselves from the harmful influences of culture and equip themselves to make a greater difference in the lives of those around them.
    • Priests for Life From the heart of the Catholic Church, it is a movement of priests seeking to help the rest of the Church to use her full strength against the most devastating attacks on human life in our day. Priests for Life embraces the consistent ethic of life as it is explained in the Bishop's Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities: A Reaffirmation (1985).
    • Rock for Life - Rock for Life is promoting human rights for all people, born and preborn, by engaging the culture through music and education. Rock for Life's message is the personhood message that each and every human being is a person from his or her biological beginning.
    • Pro-Life America provides links to numerous pro-life articles written by significant Americans, such as Ronald Reagan, Chuck Colson and Alveda King.