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"So what made the difference? Pro-life legislation, pro-life education, and pro-life alternatives.
Pro-life legislation passed during the decade certainly contributed to the decline. Eighteen states passed informed consent or "right to know" laws since 1989, most of them still in effect despite vigorous legal challenges. All told, 24 states have parental involvement laws in effect, requiring either that a minor's parents be notified or that a teen receive her parent's consent to obtain an abortion. Other states have put waiting periods in place. Many of these laws were passed in the early 1990s.
Twenty-seven states passed partial-birth abortion bans in the 20th century's last decade. Congress voted three times to ban the procedure but vetoes and threats of vetoes by pro-abortion President Bill Clinton assured that no partial-birth abortion ban became law. Though the Supreme Court struck down these state bans in June 2000, the debate and passage of these laws was enormously effective in drawing attention to the humanity of the unborn and the inhumanity of those who defend this barbaric procedure.
The educational programs of 3,000 right to life chapters throughout the nation have taught the truth about abortion and the humanity of the unborn child wherever an audience has gathered in venues as diverse as a school or a church or a fair booth. This has certainly been a major factor in turning countless women (and men) away from abortion. This continual grassroots educational effort has also helped keep abortion from gaining cultural acceptance, as its proponents had predicted in 1973.
The phenomenal growth and increasing sophistication of pregnancy care centers across the U.S. in the late 1980s and early 1990s also had an impact. While there were just a handful in operation when Roe became the law of the land, current estimates are that there were some 3,000 such centers in operation by 2000.
Pregnancy care centers offer women real alternatives to abortion, giving information, encouragement, and practical assistance that allow both woman and child a better life. One trend seen at centers during the 1990s was the increasing addition of medical services, such as ultrasound, to the pregnancy center's offerings.
Ultrasounds, considered a technology of unknown safety and efficacy by the National Institutes of Health as late as 1984, became commonplace in the 1990s, so that nearly every woman (or man) in the country with a pregnant relative, friend, or office mate saw for themselves the humanity of the developing child. Detailed sonograms, showing the baby active and moving, along with fetal heartbeat stethoscopes, picking up the "whoosh-whoosh" of a heart that began beating as early as the third week of pregnancy, exposed truths the abortion industry had suppressed for years.
While the decade began with the highest annual figure of abortions ever recorded in the U.S., the final tally for the 1990s shows that, in the end, the truth was finally beginning to win out."
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