Your vote was critical this November 5th.

As we reflect on the recent election results, Heartbeat International President Jor-El Godsey shares an encouraging update on where we stand. Despite the mixed outcomes, there is both good news and opportunity ahead. Join us in this powerful message as Jor-El explains why life-affirming work remains essential—now more than ever—as we continue helping women across the nation embrace hope and confidently choose life. Watch to see how your support makes a difference every day.

It’s not just your vote that will save future generations. Every vote from the entire pro-life community is needed to expose and stop the greatest government expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.  Click here to learn more about abortion initiatives around the country, including the 10 states that have an abortion amendment on the ballot in 2024.

Watch this video to learn how voting for life impacts pregnancy help:

Here are three steps to GOTV today:

You are a vital part of the pro-life mission. Please help voters realize that compassionate help and unconditional love empower mothers to welcome the next generation.
 
Voting your pro-life values and motivating others to do the same can make abortion unthinkable for future generations.

Votes save lives.

4 Myths About Voting This Election Season

We all know we should be voting, but is it really that important?

The United States has a surprisingly low turnout of voters, hovering between 55 and 60 percent in any given election. Why can’t we find it in ourselves to get out there and vote for our values? Could it be that we believe one or more of these myths?

Myth #1: My vote doesn't matter since the Electoral College selects the president anyway.

Voting determines the electors of the Electoral College. When the candidate who wins the popular vote has been determined for their state, the elector will cast their vote for President. This means that your vote is absolutely imperative in the election of our President.

Myth #2: Ballot Initiatives don't matter compared to the Presidential Election.

This year, 10 states have an abortion amendment on the ballot. Changes to your state's constitution hold a lot of power despite who is elected President. Voting your values, in any election season, gives a voice to those who have none.

Myth #3: My vote doesn’t make a difference.

We’ve heard this one before. Every vote matters. Every single vote matters. Every life changes the world in an unrepeatable and irreplaceable way. And so does every vote. If we stay home on Election Day, our pro-life candidates will have to stay home too! What we do and don’t do makes a difference, so let’s make it a positive one.

Myth #4: I can’t talk about political issues or encourage others to vote.

Untrue! While certain regulations may apply to certain organizations, you are well within your rights as an individual citizen to encourage those within your sphere of influence to head to the polls. There is everything to gain and nothing to lose when we encourage our community to vote for their values.

Don’t believe these myths this season—vote your values instead. Generations yet to be born are counting on us!

Discover the benefits of early voting:

Stop Abortion from Defacing America

Every vote from the entire pro-life community is needed to stop the federal government from advancing taxpayer-sponsored abortion and pouring a million dollars a day into Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. The current administration has the most pro-abortion agenda in U.S. history.

Forcing pro-life citizens to pay for abortions and abortion-causing drugs goes against our American tradition of religious liberty and destroys our nation’s moral compass.

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

It's frightening to know that if we fail to vote our pro-life values on Election Day on Nov. 6, the federal government may soon make providing alternatives to abortion unlawful. Pregnancy help organizations may be forced to provide abortion-causing drugs and abortion referrals.

We know that abortion is defacing America. We recognize that aborting a child is not healthcare. America needs elected officials willing to advance a culture of life.

You are a vital part of Heartbeat International’s pregnancy help network. Please educate other voters so they understand that compassionate help and unconditional love empower mothers to welcome the next generation.  

America needs people with a passion for life to inspire others to vote. Voting your pro-life values and motivating others to do the same can make abortion unthinkable for future generations.  

Voting is the only way to stop the abortion agenda of NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and their political cohorts.

The Abortion Agenda Exposed:

The Obama Administration Threatens Unborn Life (Family Research Council)
http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF12G07.pdf

The Presidential Record on Life (National Right to Life)
http://nrlc.org/Records/obamarecord.pdf

Why You Should Be Concerned About Obamacare (Life Issues Institute) http://www.lifeissues.org/pdf/Obamacare_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Statement by the President on Roe v. Wade Anniversary 2012 (White House)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/22/statement-president-roe-v-wade-anniversary

Pro-Life Voter Check List

10 things you can do to stop the abortion agenda!

1. Make sure that you and everyone you know is registered to vote on Nov. 6.

2. Organize a voter registration drive at your church to get others registered. Click here to download and print the registration form.
   

3. Encourage young people turning 18 to register to vote. Click here to download and print the registration form.

4. If you know someone who has moved in the last four years, encourage them to update their voter registration so they will be eligible to vote.

5. Encourage U.S. voters traveling this November to obtain absentee ballots.

6. Look into early voting rules in your state.

7. Print and distribute Voter Guides. Click here to download guides.

8. Educate yourself on candidates who are seeking elected office at local, state, and federal levels. Prepare yourself by studying the congressional scorecards to let folks know how our public servants have voted on the issue of funding and promoting aborting a child as THE choice. Click here to download scorecards.
   

9. Organize childcare for moms to make it easier for them to go to the polls.

10. Plan to drive senior citizens and those without transportation to the polls. Also, encourage people with vans to provide transportation to the polls.

by Virginia Cline

Advancing Pro-Child Policies

As the federal government mandates insurance coverage for contraceptives, including abortion-causing drugs, and promulgates additional rules for implementing Obamacare, Americans may be forced to pay for the heinous practice of abortion. Heartbeat International was on Capitol Hill recently leading moms who want to advance pro-child policies at the national level.

These moms are former clients of Heartbeat’s pregnancy help organizations who, when given the help they needed, each chose life for her child.

Central planners or those opposed to women having children in unstable economic situations, embrace abortion and abortifacients as a way of limiting the non-taxpaying population in a nationalized healthcare program.  Often referred to as “family planning,” abortion is abhorrent to the majority of Americans. When hard working taxpayers are forced to pay for abortion, most will face a moral dilemma as distressing as being asked to assist in aborting a child.

While the most pro-abortion administration in the history of the United States promotes taxpayer sponsored abortion and mandates anti-child policies, because it’s cheaper to not have children, Heartbeat has a heightened responsibility to clarify for U.S. lawmakers the importance of alternatives to abortion. In fact, the only way to ensure that a woman is not coerced or forced into aborting her baby is to make sure there are always nonprofit pregnancy help organizations and that women know how to find them.

For more than 40 years, Heartbeat’s pregnancy help network has been providing emotional support and practical resources to women who have faced untimely pregnancies. On July 19, pregnancy center clients who refused to sacrifice their children, often despite pressure to abort, joined Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. in our nation’s capital to publicly proclaim their gratitude for the life-saving work of pregnancy centers.

These women are thrilled to have an opportunity to tell their stories to national leaders. Courageous moms like Jessica Gore, who was excited to bring her eight-year-old daughter to meet her elected officials, testified to the fact that pregnancy help organizations provide a life-changing experience.

“I went to the sonogram appointment at Burleson Pregnancy Aid Center even though I had already been to Planned Parenthood and thought that abortion was right for me,” said Jessica from Burleson, Texas. “But when I looked at the sonogram screen, I knew that I had been lied to. What I saw on the screen was not a ‘piece of tissue’ like Planned Parenthood had told me. The tiny flicker of light, a heartbeat, was my child. I was instantly in love.”

“I would have been lost without the guidance of the Pregnancy Aid Center,” said Jessica. “Through their programs I learned how to care for my infant daughter. I would not be the person I am today if it hadn’t been for the caring people of the Burleson Pregnancy Aid Center and the experiences I’ve had there. Without them, my daughter would not be alive and I cannot imagine my life without her.”

Shelly Louis, of Durant, Oklahoma, is another mom who took the opportunity to let congress know that pregnancy help centers are good for women.

“Unmarried, financially insecure, and six weeks pregnant with my third child…abortion was a very real option for me,” said Shelly. “Since I was receiving no assistance from the baby’s father and he was encouraging me to terminate the pregnancy, I chose to seek an abortion.”

But Shelly quickly discovered she couldn’t go through with it. After an emotional breakdown, a teacher told her about the Pregnancy Center of Bryan County.

“Only because of their encouragement and compassion was I able to think clearly about my options and make the right choice to protect the life of my unborn child. My arrangements to visit the abortion clinic were cancelled and Kiree’s life was saved,” said Shelly.

“The support of the Pregnancy Center did not stop there. During my entire pregnancy, I attended weekly lessons, which taught me numerous things about the prenatal process and how to care for Kiree after she was born. By attending these lessons, I earned Mommy Money, which I used to ‘purchase’ clothes, shoes, blankets, diapers, and wipes in the on-site Mommy Market,” said Shelly.

Like these courageous moms, voters need to remind policy makers that abortion is not healthcare.

Forcing pro-life citizens to pay for abortions, or abortion-causing drugs, goes against our American tradition. It was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, who said, “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

You can call for the repeal of Obamacare by contacting your elected officials over the phone, in a letter, or in an email. If your representative supports taxpayer funded abortion, you can vote them out of office on November 6^th.

Please join with us in encouraging elected officials to advance pro-child policies that begin with promoting the life-saving work of pregnancy help organizations so that Heartbeat International’s compassionate network can empower even more women to welcome the next generation.

To find your nearest pregnancy help organization, simply visit Heartbeat’s OptionLine.org.

Rejecting Abortion

Grateful Moms tell Congress about Compassionate Pregnancy Centers

Women who received support from pregnancy help centers and rejected abortion are bringing their children to meet with U.S. lawmakers as part of Heartbeat’s Babies Go to Congress® on July 19.

“Every woman deserves support during an unexpected pregnancy,” said Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. “And when women receive unconditional love along with the practical help necessary to welcome new life, they want policy makers to know that they are grateful. Because of this, Heartbeat International developed Babies Go to Congress^® to give moms, served by a pregnancy help center, the opportunity to introduce their babies, who were at risk of abortion, to their elected officials.” 

Women have been thanking pregnancy help organizations for their support for decades and these moms are thrilled to have an opportunity to tell their stories to national leaders. Courageous women like Jessica Gore, who is excited to bring her eight-year-old daughter to meet her elected officials, will testify to the fact that pregnancy help organizations provide a life-changing experience.

“I went to the sonogram appointment at Burleson Pregnancy Aid Center even though I had already been to Planned Parenthood and thought that abortion was right for me,” said Jessica from Burleson, Texas. “But when I looked at the sonogram screen, I knew that I had been lied to. What I saw on the screen was not a ‘piece of tissue’ like Planned Parenthood had told me. The tiny flicker of light, a heartbeat, was my child. I was instantly in love.”

“I would have been lost without the guidance of the Pregnancy Aid Center,” said Jessica. “Through their programs I learned how to care for my infant daughter. I would not be the person I am today if it hadn’t been for the caring people of the Burleson Pregnancy Aid Center and the experiences I’ve had there. Without them, my daughter would not be alive and I cannot imagine my life without her.”

Heartbeat’s pregnancy help network of care provides all the facts on abortion – from post-abortion stress to possible medical complications – facts that abortion facilities often leave out.  Heartbeat’s compassionate network is dedicated to safeguarding maternal health and protecting child wellbeing necessary to sustain a healthy pregnancy.

Founded in 1971 as Alternatives to Abortion, Heartbeat International is the first pregnancy support association in the U.S., the most expansive in the world with 1,343 affiliates in 50 countries, and the most inclusive membership with pregnancy help centers, life-honoring medical clinics, maternity homes, and nonprofit adoption agencies. Heartbeat’s Option Line (1-800-712-HELP/OptionLine.org) connects women facing unexpected pregnancies with the emotional support and practical help they need to welcome new life.

The Supreme Court decision, National Federation of Independent Businesses et al v. Sevelius, Sec of Health and Human Services, upholds the constitutionality of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). 

Don’t be discouraged! This will not stop or slow down Heartbeat, Option Line, and our affiliated pregnancy help ministries that save babies, help women and families, and create a culture of life at the grassroots level, 365 days a year.

Pro-life efforts must be directed to repealing this law and to stopping the promotion of abortion and all other so-called “reproductive health care” that are part of the law and implementation rules coming from this administration. We are now led by the most pro-abortion President and Cabinet members (especially Secretary of Health and Human Services) that we have ever had in the history of our country. The fact is that we have the right to elect new leaders and change existing laws.

Now is the time to get more involved, speak up, and turn out the vote.

Heartbeat International will be doing everything possible within our capability as a non-profit, charitable and religious organization to get people registered to vote and to help everyone know what is at stake and where candidates stand. The November 6 election is crucial and your participation is vital if we hope to turn our country back toward the core values on which we were founded:

•    Liberty (especially freedom of religion) and
•    Life, endowed by our Creator

If we must live with laws or regulations that deeply violate our consciences, civil disobedience and its consequences may be our only alternative.

Our hope is in the Lord. Let us pray and fast for God’s forgiveness for the sin of abortion and for His grace and protection for us as pro-life citizens, for our leaders, and for our country.

Yours in Christ,

Margaret H. Hartshorn, Ph.D., President

Four ways to get involved:

• Sign up here for Action Alerts and we will provide more information on what you can do and how to do it.
• Read the official decision for National Federation of Independent Business Et Al. V. Sebelius, Secretary Of Health And Human Services.
• Take the "Civics 101" webinar.
• Vote for repeal on November 6, 2012.

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