GARDEN GROVE, CA (ANS) -- Birth Choice Health Clinics (BCHC) and leading pro-life activists hosted a captive audience of over five hundred Southern California citizens who came together in support of the pro-life medical clinic organization. For BCHC, the evening was a celebration of 31 years of untiring commitment to pro-life work.

Kathleen Eaton, founder of Birth Choice, speaking at the event

According to a news release, leading activists, each with a unique story to tell, truly ignited the movement to put “life” back into “choice” and encouraged the community to play a more active role in the fight for life.

The event took place last night, May 10th, at The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

“There is a tremendous need for pro-life health clinics, just like Birth Choice, to be available to college students who struggle with sexual health questions on a daily basis,” said Kristan Hawkins, Director of Students for Life of America (http://studentsforlife.org).

While Hawkins has tripled the number of pro-life campus groups in the United States over the past six years, she says that students still don’t know that there is an alternative to Planned Parenthood.

Birth Choice Health Clinics is privately funded and relies on donations to run its seven clinics, located throughout California, which provide free medical services, education and support for family, marriage, sexual and reproductive health - consistent with the respect and value of every life.

The three keynote speakers: Kathleen Eaton, Jack Hibbs and Kristan Hawkins (from left to right)

“Now, more than ever, is the time to stand up and support Birth Choice in its fight against abortion providers,” said Jack Hibbs, Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and a survivor of an unsuccessful abortion himself. “We are the warriors that can turn this culture of abortion into a culture of life!”

Birth Choice Health Clinics serves any person, female or male, in need of reproductive health services. They believe that people will make life-affirming decisions about their sexual health when they are informed in an accepting, caring and truthful environment.

Kathleen Eaton, Founder and CEO of BCHC, encouraged the community to join the movement: “Over 50 million babies are aborted each year and California has the highest abortion rate out of any state in the nation. I am only one woman and I need each and every one of you to walk alongside me in support of life,” she said.

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In the past six years alone, Birth Choice Health Clinics has impacted over 200,000 young people in one way or another. With continued support, Birth Choice Health Clinics will be able to carry out its strategic vision to open clinics across the nation and provide a life-affirming option to those with reproductive health needs.

Additional guests included Jason Jones, film producer of “Bella” and promoter of “October Baby”; Evan Wickham & Band, a well-known musical group that led the audience in worship; and even Renee Bondi, who showed up in support of the cause. (For more on Renee’s unique story, please go to: http://www.reneebondi.com/about-renee/biography).

About Birth Choice Health Clinics: Since converting from a pregnancy resource center to its current medical model just six years ago, Birth Choice Health Clinics (BCHC) -- http://www.birthchoiceclinic.org -- has become a viable life-affirming alternative to commercial reproductive health service providers. Owned and operated clinics currently include seven locations, six fixed and one mobile. Since opening our doors in 1981 we have impacted the lives of over 200,000 young people, with nearly 58,000 client visits since becoming licensed medical clinics in 2006. This success has resulted in repeated requests for expansion of the BCHC clinic model throughout Southern California and beyond. Being led by God, it provides caring, high quality and comprehensive reproductive health services consistent with the inherent value of every person.

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Dan Wooding, 71, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 48 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on the KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK and also in Belize and South Africa. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries and also provides a regular commentary for Worship Life Radio on KWVE. You can follow Dan Wooding on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. Dan has recently received two top media awards -- the "Passion for the Persecuted" award from Open Doors US, and one of the top "Newsmakers of 2011" from Plain Truth magazine. He is the author of some 44 books, the latest of which is "Caped Crusader: Rick Wakeman in the 1970s." To order a copy, go to: http://www.amazon.com/CAPED-CRUSADER-Rick-Wakeman-1970s/dp/1908728302/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335474883&sr=1-1 . Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel “Red Dagger” which is available this link.