Tag: Real Alternatives

A lifesaver for more than 280,000 women and their families—“Real Alternatives”

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation A woman is under extreme pressure from her boyfriend to abort her baby. Frightened and worried, she decides to go to a pregnancy care center for help. There, thanks to the listening ear of a compassionate counselor, she is able to pour her feelings out. She does …

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“Real Alternatives”–a lifesaver for more than 280,000 women and their families

By Maria Gallagher, legislative director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation A woman is under extreme pressure from her boyfriend to abort her baby. Frightened and worried, she decides to go to a pregnancy care center for help. There, thanks to the listening ear of a compassionate counselor, she is able to pour her feelings out. She does …

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“Real Alternatives” offer a life-affirmation option for pregnant women and girls

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last ten …

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“Enough talk about funding the dead end of abortion. Let’s talk about equal rights to maternal love.”

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation The Philadelphia Inquirer website ran a refreshing headline recently: “Rather than fund abortion, let’s invest in alternatives.” The column, penned by writer Marybeth Hagan, began with a description of the Democratic National Convention, which was held in July in Philadelphia: “Democrats seem dead set on being the …

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Catholic Social Services wins Pennsylvania Service Provider of the Year for fourth year in a row

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation In the city where abortionist and convicted killer Kermit Gosnell plied his grisly trade, pregnant women are finding award-winning support and guidance, thanks to the stellar team at Catholic Social Services. For the fourth year in a row, the Philadelphia organization has won the prestigious Pennsylvania Service …

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Exclusive interview with Governor Mike Pence on Indiana’s new Real Alternatives program

Editor’s note. This exclusive interview was given to Indiana Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate. In November 2015, Governor Mike Pence announced that Indiana would move forward with a statewide $3.5 million expansion of a national program called Real Alternatives designed to help abortion-vulnerable women to choose life. Here in an exclusive interview, Governor Pence …

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Offering Real Alternatives to Women in Crisis draws pro-abortion ire

  By Maria Gallagher, legislative director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Perhaps the biggest evidence that Pennsylvania’s landmark Alternatives to Abortion program is working—and working exceedingly well—is the fact that it is being targeted in the pro-abortion blogosphere. RH Reality Check, an online apologist for the abortion industry, is bemoaning the fact that the program—which is administered …

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