She was just 13 years old and thought abortion was her only option. Several weeks later, she found out she was still pregnant. Today, her daughter is a beautiful young woman named Claire. I‘ll share below her breathtaking story of what happened that day.

We have a huge problem, but we also have a solution — if we act now.

During Liberty Counsel’s defense of Sandra Merritt, the California attorney general’s office argued that as long as a child — like Claire — was earmarked for abortion, it would be legal to kill that child, even after the child was born alive.

This blatant brutality is EXACTLY why we need to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. With Rule 14 now invoked in the Senate, the bill can be voted on at any time.

Send targeted faxes to help protect these little ones. —Mat

After the failed abortion, Claire Culwell was born prematurely and then adopted.

“After thanking my birth mother for giving me my life, she [Claire’s birth mom] broke down into tears at this moment. She described her abortion that successfully aborted my twin. The pain in her eyes is something I will never forget.”

That day, Claire found out she was “the surviving twin of a botched D and E [dilation and evacuation] dismemberment abortion.” That day on the operating table one lived and one died.

It is impossible to ignore the lives and the future of each child that is destroyed daily by abortion — especially children like Claire who survive an abortion but then don’t get the chance for life that she did.  

“My life was a miracle,” Claire said. “I realize that there was a face, a name, a story with the unborn child and with the woman contemplating an abortion like my birth mother. You see, when you look at my face, you see my twin, and when you look at my life, you see the almighty hand of God.”

Now we have the chance to speak out for children like Claire who survive abortion but who are then killed or thrown in the trash to die. DEMAND senators pass the Born Alive Act.

Decades ago, abortion was sold to our nation as the cure for child abuse with one of the movement’s popular slogans being “Every child a wanted child.” But that was a lie from the pit of hell.

“Between 1976 and 1986, reports of child abuse and neglect across the United States rose threefold to over two million … Reports of sexual abuse rose 18-fold between 1976 and 1985.” And while the report discusses the difficulty of getting actual evidence to make a definitive conviction, it does conclude that, “By the mid-1980s, child abuse was considered a leading social problem in the United States and other Western countries.”  

In California, abortionists can knowingly dissect a living newborn baby and — as long as the baby was “earmarked” for abortion, like Claire was — then the highest prosecutor in the state refuses to bring any charges! States like this expose why we need to fight for nationwide protection.  

Make your voice heard loud and clear on Capitol Hill today. Help protect these children by sending your faxes to demand the passage of the Born Alive Act in the Senate.

The violence and pain from abortion is not limited to mothers, fathers and the children killed by abortion. The pain spreads much further — to surviving siblings like Claire. The cries echo for generations.

In “A consideration of abortion survivors,” researcher PG Ney estimates that about half of American children lost a sibling to abortion.  

Ney states:

[C]hildren who have siblings terminated by abortion have similar psychological conflicts to those children who survive disasters or siblings who die of accident or illness. There is evidence that children are aware of their mother's pregnancy termination. Having been chosen to survive, these children may have considerable conflicts regarding their existence. Since their life depended upon being wanted, they may become obsessively determined to please or they may feel a deep sense of obligation to their parents. ... [Having an aborted sibling] may stir latent hostility within the child, the expression of which would be inhibited by the child's determination to stay wanted. Abortion survivors may be overprotected by parents attempting to deal with their unresolved guilt. As a substitute child the abortion survivor may have placed upon himself impossible expectations.
When Claire found out she lost her twin, she said that “explained a lot of things for me: my physical complications because of my prematurity and being a twin — a surviving twin; my curiosity and longing for another sibling; my deep appreciation for being wanted by my adopted parents who stand here with me today.”

The pain that is happening from abortion affects the living. WE MUST RESTORE A CULTURE OF LIFE AND END INFANTICIDE.  

Send your urgent faxes today to pass the Born Alive Act to help end this brutal infanticide!

While state legislative sessions are ongoing, our staff is busy providing advice regarding state laws and policies. There is a lot of ongoing and exciting activity.

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Please join me in prayer that the Senate will take action.

Mat Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action

Sources:

Culwell, Claire. “Choosing Boldness.” Called To Be Bold Podcast. Accessed July 20, 2022. Claireculwell.com/podcast.html.

Jenkins, John Philip. “Child Abuse.” Encyclopædia Britannica, January 13, 2023. Britannica.com/topic/child-abuse.

Ney, P.G. A consideration of abortion survivors. Child Psych Hum Dev 13, 168–179 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705857.