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After 10 days of deliberation, the verdict is finally in. Three counts of first degree murder for infamous abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell. While we breathe a brief sigh of relief knowing justice can now be—at least partially—served on behalf of some of the victims, we must realize this is only the tip of the iceberg. Circumstances may differ, but the fact remains that every abortion murders children and hurts women. Not only that, but the particularly gruesome details of the Kermit Gosnell case are repeated in city after city in the United States, inflicting untold devastation to each woman who is unable to find the help she desperately needs during an unexpected or difficult pregnancy. Today is a day to take action. Here are two ways to fight for life:

Sign a Letter to Elected Representatives Heartbeat is sending a letter to elected, federal Representatives, urging them to support legislation holding abortion clinics accountable. As seen in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial, abortion clinics often perform unlawful, dangerous, and inhumane procedures without the supervision of city, state, or federal authorities. Dr. Gosnell's practices are not isolated incidents. Many women and babies lose their lives due to these overlooked, illegal actions. Show your support for every life by signing the letter TODAY! Please spread the word and encourage those in your community to sign the letter as well!

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PHILADELPHIA, PA --- Unemployed and struggling to provide for herself and her 2-year-old daughter with unemployment checks, the last thing Matennah could afford was another child.

Ready or not, as 2011 dawned, Matennah found herself pregnant and headed to the doctor’s office alone for an ultrasound. What she found there left her, in her words, “crying like a child.”

Twins.

By this time, Matennah’s boyfriend, the father of her twins, was in jail, leaving her with virtually no support system to help care for her growing family. Though Matennah saw the twins as a double blessing, those closest to her urged her to consider other options.

Where would she turn? Who could help? What solution was best.

Matennah opened the Yellow Pages, holding the bulk of the book in her right hand while she browsed with her left thumb to the “A” section.

Toward the end of the section loomed the euphemistic words, “Women’s Medical Society,” whose presiding doctor, Kermit Gosnell, had been arrested just days earlier.

The beginning of the section, however, turned out to be Matennah’s salvation. It was a listing called Alpha Pregnancy Services, a Heartbeat International affiliate pregnancy help center located in the heart of the City of Brotherly Love.

We met Matennah and her three daughters, Biana, Alena, and Chloe, at our Babies Go to Congress event in January 2013, where she had the chance to show and tell lawmakers that pregnancy help centers are good for America.

Alpha Pregnancy Services is 2.5 miles from Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” clinic, where a woman in Matennah’s shoes, Karnamaya Mongar (pictured right), was butchered—in the words of one congressman—by Gosnell within a year of Matennah’s unexpected pregnancy.

Just think about that. Matennah was literally within pages and city blocks of darkening the doors to the now-most infamous abortuary in America.

But instead, Matennah found a pregnancy help center that not only equipped her with the help she needed to choose life for her two precious daughters, but is now helping Matennah raise her three daughters with practical resources, job skills training, and parenting assistance.

This is why Heartbeat International and our network of over 1,400 life-affirming organizations exist. We exist so that women and families like Matennah can live and thrive. We exist so that no woman ever feels so alone, coerced or hopeless that she ends her child’s life through abortion.

Make no mistake about it. This is a life and death issue.

Death on the one hand for—at the very least—every unborn child whose mother walks into an abortion clinic. Life on the other for every one of the 1,000,000 children, mothers, and families who visit pregnancy help centers each year.

Women like Matennah deserve better than abortion—regardless of whether our culture labels those facilities as filthy “Houses of Horror” or pristine “Centers for Reproductive Health.” Each woman in Matennah’s situation deserves the kind of emotional support and practical resources during an unexpected pregnancy that Alpha Pregnancy Services has given her.

Won’t you give today to support this life-saving, death-defying work? Heartbeat International thanks you. Alpha Pregnancy Services thanks you.

Most importantly, Matennah and her three daughters thank you. 

(Watch Matennah's full story below.)

by Jor-El Godsey, Vice President

The notice went out in February 2004 for every organization in the world to revisit their logo. It happened again in June 2007. Did you get your notice?

Actually, those were the launch dates of Facebook and the first iPhone, respectively, with both signposts signaling a smaller space in which logos would compete.

As these notices were issued, the 20-year-old Heartbeat logo and the “swoosh” heart were cleaned up incrementally to try and keep pace with the shift from print to electronic communications. But, its design, echoing some early ’90s trends, was difficult to size down for a profile picture on Facebook, or for showing up on a really small screen as more and more of us access the Web from our smartphones.

With these practical concerns in mind, and through a recent process of strategic planning, Heartbeat has committed to a logo refresh, which we officially unveiled at this year’s Annual Conference in Dallas.

We’ve kept some elements the same—the name structure and font—but are introducing a new corporate color (Midnight Blue) and our brand new network symbol, “The Heart of the Future.”

Crafted by our own award-winning graphic designer, Brett Foster of Extend Web Services, The Heart of the Future follows the five core elements of a good logo design—simplicity, memorablility, versatility, appropriateness and timelessness.

For Heartbeat International, it’s a familiar symbol that capitalizes upon the heart we’ve used since 1993 to capture the focus of our mission, networking efforts, and corporate culture.

We call it The Heart of the Future because pregnancy help is focused on just that. Our future—at least the one God desires for us—is established upon the foundational truth of the sanctity of life and the promise of life everlasting. As we focus together on preserving and welcoming the next generation, we serve together to strengthen our society’s future, because at the heart of a healthy society is the family.

Everything the pregnancy help community does today—save babies, uplift women, and restore families—is vital to the health of every community’s future.

Moreover, we know the call of God is upon the pregnancy help work, because it is truly His Heart. The Heart of the Future is recognition that God is at the heart of all we do in championing both the Gift and the Giver of Life.