About the Author

William has worked as a professional writer for pro-life organizations since 2018, including Human Life International, Celebrate Life Magazine, and Pro-Life Utah. He has also written for the Bipartisan Press and edited for several blogs and websites. William is the founder and president of the Lifeguard Initiative, a pro-life group that informs the public, helps pregnant women in need, and works for pro-life legislation in many states.

Conversion Therapy: Controversy and Reality

By William Lawyer / November 15, 2024 /
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Conversion therapy has long been a controversial subject, often regarded as being wholly unethical by critics. Over the last several decades there has been a powerful push to ban it, with publicity painting it as being abusive and harmful. But though like any practice there can be unethical conversion therapy, the facts of it are…

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What Organizations Fund Planned Parenthood?

By William Lawyer / January 4, 2024 /

  Planned Parenthood Isn’t As Popular As You Think Planned Parenthood is an incredibly wealthy organization. In 2022 alone, the company brought in nearly two billion dollars. Some came from normal operating revenue, but over 35% came from government funding. A similar amount, around 36%, comes from individual and corporate donations. Ending taxpayer funding of…

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Post-Abortion Stress Syndrome

By William Lawyer and Marisa Cantu / November 28, 2023 /
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Of all the victims of abortion, it is perhaps the mother and father who are the most neglected of all. For pro-life advocates, the death of an innocent child tends to be the focus. For pro-choice advocates, acknowledging the parents as victims would weaken their own position. Nevertheless, the reality is that those who obtain…

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What Are the Products That Use Aborted Fetuses?

By HLI Staff and William Lawyer / September 22, 2023 /

Do some products contain parts of aborted babies? The short answer is: “Yes.” However, today’s consumer products are not the soap and lampshades of “recycled” Nazi concentration camp victims that we see in museums. The new utilitarian use of “people as product” is a sophisticated enterprise that is not visible to the human eye. Perhaps…

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Planned Parenthood: What Do They Do With The Bodies?

By William Lawyer / September 18, 2023 /

In 2015, investigators from The Center for Medical Progress approached Planned Parenthood to purchase fetal remains. Posing as buyers from a human biologics company, the CMP set up meetings over lunch and at Planned Parenthood facilities. The investigators secretly recorded their conversations with Planned Parenthood executives. The videos, released in a wave to the public…

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Abortion Survivors: 5 People Who Survived Abortion Attempts

By William Lawyer and Marisa Cantu / August 31, 2023 /

It is easy to forget that every abortion is happening to a unique person. With tens of millions of abortions occurring every year, the deaths become a mere statistic. We never know the people who are lost, and to many of us, they are just numbers on a sheet. Sometimes, however, someone comes along who…

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Relationship after Abortion: Will Abortion Help or Hurt?

By William Lawyer / May 10, 2023 /
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Many women seeking abortions fear that a child might interfere with their relationships with their partners. Sometimes a woman’s partner, parents, or friends encourage her to have an abortion or express disapproval if she wishes to keep the child. Because of this, women often fear that if they do not have abortions, their relationships may…

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The Threat of Sex-Selective Abortion

By William Lawyer / October 21, 2022 /

In this article: What is sex-selective abortion? Why sex-selective abortion is bad Whether sex-selective abortion bans work The best way to prevent sex-selective abortion   In most human populations, around 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This is the natural sex ratio. Under normal circumstances the ratio of boys born to girls is…

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Abortion’s Twisted Relationship with Sexual Abuse

By William Lawyer / July 16, 2022 /
Violence of Human Trafficking: Is abortion okay after rape or incest?

When it comes to helping victims of sexual abuse, abortion advocates present abortion as the only logical choice. They say it helps victims of rape, relieving their trauma and keeping them safe; some even go so far as to say that carrying the child would repeat the trauma the woman has already endured. Even some…

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The Effects of Abortion Laws: Myths and Facts

By William Lawyer / June 3, 2022 /

With Roe v. Wade overturned, pro-lifers have an exciting opportunity to increase protections for the preborn in their state. Now more than ever it is important to know which laws work, and which don’t. So, what do common pro-life and pro-choice policies truly do, and what policies can you fight for to make your state…

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