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March 21, 2007                                                                                                   Derrick Jones, 202.626.8825
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EXHALE E-ABORTION CARDS ARE BOTH BELITTLING AND INSENSITIVE

Recently, a California-based firm known as Exhale announced the release of e-cards designed to be sent to women who have had an abortion.  In response, the following statement may be attributed to Olivia Gans, director of American Victims of Abortion, an outreach of the National Right to Life Committee:

“That an organization like Exhale counts outspoken pro-abortion advocates among members of its national advisory board means that pro-abortionists are acknowledging what we who have had abortions know – that women do, indeed, suffer after an abortion.  These cards gloss over that fact by attempting to make abortion an accepted event – to try to normalize what can never be normal. 

“Women who have dealt with the physically and mentally traumatic experience of an abortion certainly need the love and support of their family – support that can’t be wrapped up in a cold online card.

“To reduce the occurrence of an abortion to a greeting card experience like ‘Sweetest Day’ or ‘Friendship Day’ displays a frightening callousness toward abortion that is not only belittling and insensitive to women, it completely ignores the fact that abortion is a life and death experience in which the life of a woman’s innocent unborn child is taken.

“What women need isn’t a greeting card to mask our pain, but real solutions that protect our lives and provide for our children.”

 Olivia Gans is the Director of American Victims of Abortion.  Miss Gans helped organize one of the nation’s first peer-to-peer post-abortion support groups after almost two years of suffering through an acute emotional reaction to her own abortion experience as an unwed college student.

The National Right to Life Committee is the nation’s largest pro-life group with affiliates in all 50 states and over 3,000 local chapters nationwide.  National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect those threatened by abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide.