Jeannie Wallace French, executive director of the National Women’s Coalition for Life provided a powerful personal story during the 1996 hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. French described how physicians recommended aborting her twin daughter, Mary, after she was diagnosed with an occipital encephalocele, a form of spina bifida. […]

Birthmothers and former Feminists for Life board members Jessica O’Connor-Petts and Julia Thornton were interviewed, along with FFL President Serrin M. Foster, by Cheryl Wetzstein in the Sunday, April 12, edition of theWashington Times. We thought you would be interested to read the following excerpts: [Y]oung women who choose adoption, like Julia Thornton and Jessica

It is natural to want to “save from suffering the unborn innocent” as was written in Susan B. Anthony’s Revolution. If actual or potential disability is a reason to devalue children before birth, what cruel message does this send to persons with disabilities who are already born? Would you say to someone in a wheelchair that s/he

Many of the children waiting to be adopted are waiting because of legal processes, not a lack of loving homes. There are two million pre-approved American couples awaiting adoption. Two million women want to be mothers right now, and many of them want more than one child, as well as wanting children with special needs.