reaching abortion-vulnerable women

Most women considering abortion feel they have "no choice."
Pregnancy medical centers let a woman see her child on the sonogram screen,
and show her that she has options.
We make the pregnancy medical centers known.
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(If you are facing an unexpected pregnancy, call 412-264-0200 or 412-687-7767.)

Donate Online

Kaylie, Amy, and Gloria, and how advertising helps open hearts to life.
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Advertising reduces demand for abortion

To see how we calculate -- now more than 9,000 -- lives saved from abortion (by 2020), go here.

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"Vision for Life is the most effective and cost-efficient method of getting the pro-life message out that I have ever seen. It’s a great model."

​-- Mark Bibro, Deacon at St. Teresa of Kolkata Roman Catholic Church

Making Pregnancy Help Centers Known

What do we learn from history? Abortion rates were higher in the 19th C. than today.  Maternity homes and other forms of help brought abortion numbers down.  Pregnancy help centers are doing the same thing today, but they have one drawback.

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT

* PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM
* CONTRACEPTION
* STATE LAWS
* "LACK OF ACCESS"
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ARE NOT THE REASON ABORTION NUMBERS ARE FALLING?

Nothing but pregnancy help centers explains the decline of abortion ratios over the decades. Dr. Ashley Loboda and Chris Humphrey, Ph.D., look at the alternative explanations, and show that they don't explain the decline as well as the increase in pregnancy help centers.

ABortion in Allegheny County

Did you know that 62% of abortion patients in 2019 in Pennsylvania had delivered at least one child already?
Did you know that 44% of abortion patients that year were African-American?
These are some of the women that our partners in the pregnancy medical centers serve.

Abortion In Philadelphia County

Did you know that more than 40% of Pennsylvania's abortion patients in 2019 lived in Philadelphia County?
Vision for Life is partnering with two centers there to let women know that they really do have a choice.

GOING FOR 5 OUT OF 6!

The year before we began advertising, 2010, only 3 out of 4 babies were born, and 1 was aborted. By 2015, that number
was up to 4 out of 5.
Now we are going for 5 out of 6!

Abortion numbers have been falling in almost all states by about 4 to 5 percent a year since 2008,
and the abortion rate per 1,000 women is the lowest since 1973.
Researchers from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, however, say it’s not because of new pro-life laws
​or a lack of access to abortion.

OUR Approach

We can save moms and babies from abortion now, and not just in the future.
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Annual Report 2021

Looking Back

To see a simple summary of our advertising program for 2021, go to "News and Views," above, or click here. For the 2020 Annual Report on our program, click on the link below.

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Analyzing the 2020 PA Abortion Report

In the "Year of the Fear," Advertising Still Made a Difference

Executive Director's Blog

From Behind the Desk

I have been looking at the CDC's annual Abortion Surveillance Reports, to see what trends are discernible. I think we can talk with some confidence about the future of abortion. And it doesn't look good for the abortionists. The average abortion patient is getting older -- which means, among other things, that fewer women will have an abortion in their lifetimes. (The claim that 1 in 3, and then 1 in 4, would have abortions was always very weakly supported. It was probably wildly off in any case, because women underreport earlier abortions.) What about the likely fall of Roe v. Wade, and the spread of chemical abortion available online?

More to come!

 The statistics from the Department of Health's 2020 Abortion Report show that advertising can have an effect even in a time of widespread anxiety about health and income. While the number of abortions to residents of Pennsylvania was up 4.1%, and the ratio of abortions to births was up 7%, the number in Allegheny County dropped 5.6%, and the ratio of births to abortions remained the same (25.3 per 100 births), as birth numbers in the County fell proportionately.

Abortions in Philadelphia County were up, as were ratios of abortions to births, but they did not increase at the same rate as they did in the State as a whole, or as they did in neighboring counties. It looks like advertising may be having an effect in the County in which about 40% of PA's abortions are performed.

For the details, go here.

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