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widespread coercion

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teens & moms at risk

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injustice to all involved

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Why this campaign is different ... and essential

Research-based materials. New evidence changes everything.

 

 

The UnChoice campaign educates leaders and the public about important new evidence that most abortions are unwanted or coerced. Many are forced. This is a human rights abuse that endangers the rights and lives of both the unborn and women, especially vulnerable teens, women and families.

 

This injustice is compounded by ...

  • coercive counseling in schools, clinics and elsewhere,

  • employment or housing discrimination,

  • failure to screen for evidence of sexual assault,

  • failure to screen for unwanted, coerced or forced abortions,

  • far-reaching, even deadly aftereffects,

  • post-abortion heartbreak and trauma dismissed by many, including experts and others in the medical and helping professions.

 

This education and outreach campaign includes ads and user-friendly educational materials downloadable at TheUnChoice.com. These components expose a growing body of evidence indicating that, for most women, abortion is not about "choice," safety," or even "freedom."

 

It is a human rights abuse that endangers the rights and lives of both women and children.
 

Top 10 Reasons it's The UnChoice

 

Research-based, guided by experts

 

This campaign is grounded in credible, peer-reviewed academic research and incorporates the insights and expertise of leaders who specialize in complex and highly sensitive pregnancy- and abortion-related issues.

 

It respects the deeply personal, painful and highly varied experiences of women who survived abortion ... and of the families of those hurt, including beloved daughters, sisters, wives or friends who did not survive.

 

The campaign was developed with attention to small and sometimes subtle, but important details, all working in concert to organize the information for mass media and mixed audiences. In such an arena, crossed wires can send an unintended message or close hearts and minds. We have attended to details that make it easier for the general public to contextualize, understand and remember a message that challenges preconceived notions about "choice," "wanted," or "safe" abortion.

 

What this campaign – grounded in pivotal new research-based evidence – can do:

 

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15 things this campaign can do: please share or support this campaign.
 

Before & After (coming soon)

 

 


 

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