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'''Angie S. Hammond''' (born October 21, 1948) is a figure in the [[right to life]] movement in the [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]] Metropolitan Area. In 1988, she opened the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Duncanville, Texas. In 2011, she became president of Hope Mansion, a home for expectant mothers with no other means of support. She is a frequent speaker at pro-life meetings and banquets.<ref name=bio>Angie S. Hammond biographical sketch, self-prepared</ref>
A [[Mississippi]] native, Hammond graduated from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theater. She is a former teacher in public and private Christian high schools.<ref name=bio/>
Under her leadership, the Duncanville Crisis Pregnancy Center<ref name=bio/> soon expanded to include the licensed child-placement agency known as Chosen Heritage Christian Adoption,<ref>{{cite web}url=http://local.yahoo.com/info-28647569-hammond-angie-director-chosen-heritage-christian-adoption-duncanville|title=Hammond, Angie Director - Chosen Heritage Christian Adoption|publisher=local.yahoo.com|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>the Elizabeth Grace Maternity Home,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/g/mmsg5gj/angie-hammond|title=Angie Hammond, Executive Director of Elizabeth Grace Maternity Home|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref> and a limited obstetrical medical clinic. Hammond has since worked to open other maternity homes but cites a far greater need than has thus far been met. Hammond is a director of the National Maternity Housing Board and Texas Life Connections, an organization that encourages churches to embrace pro-life ministries.<ref name=bio/>
Hammond is further involved in the procuring of ultrasound machines for crisis pregnancy centers. Such devices show expectant mothers the development of their children in the womb. The service often convinces a woman considering [[abortion]] instead to bear the child to term, keep the baby, or offer it for adoption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heartlink.org/OUP/A000000725.cfm|title=Sanctity of Human Life|publisher=heartlink.org|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>
Hammond and her husband, Lee Bell Hammond, Sr. (born 1946), serve on the board of directors of the Fish Creek Ranch Retreat Center and the Straight Arrow Youth Camp.<ref name=bio/> The Hammonds attend New Life Bible Fellowship in Dallas,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nlbf.org/nlbf/index.php?id=98|title=New Life Bible Fellowship|publisher=nlbf.org|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref> where she is a long-time Sunday school teacher. The Hammonds have three sons and daughters-in-law: Lee Bell "Trey" Hammond, Jr., a pastor in Mississippi, and his wife, Tressa; Arthur Miller Hammond, a lay pastor with the Cowboy Church in Van Alstyne, Texas, and the owner of a land services company, and his wife, Rebecca, and John Walt Hammond, a Texas state trooper in Bryan/College Station, and his wife, Brittany.<ref name-bio/>
In recent years, Angie and Lee Hammond have been remodeling an 1874 farmhouse and filling it with antiques.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
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[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Right to Life]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
A [[Mississippi]] native, Hammond graduated from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theater. She is a former teacher in public and private Christian high schools.<ref name=bio/>
Under her leadership, the Duncanville Crisis Pregnancy Center<ref name=bio/> soon expanded to include the licensed child-placement agency known as Chosen Heritage Christian Adoption,<ref>{{cite web}url=http://local.yahoo.com/info-28647569-hammond-angie-director-chosen-heritage-christian-adoption-duncanville|title=Hammond, Angie Director - Chosen Heritage Christian Adoption|publisher=local.yahoo.com|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>the Elizabeth Grace Maternity Home,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/g/mmsg5gj/angie-hammond|title=Angie Hammond, Executive Director of Elizabeth Grace Maternity Home|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref> and a limited obstetrical medical clinic. Hammond has since worked to open other maternity homes but cites a far greater need than has thus far been met. Hammond is a director of the National Maternity Housing Board and Texas Life Connections, an organization that encourages churches to embrace pro-life ministries.<ref name=bio/>
Hammond is further involved in the procuring of ultrasound machines for crisis pregnancy centers. Such devices show expectant mothers the development of their children in the womb. The service often convinces a woman considering [[abortion]] instead to bear the child to term, keep the baby, or offer it for adoption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heartlink.org/OUP/A000000725.cfm|title=Sanctity of Human Life|publisher=heartlink.org|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>
Hammond and her husband, Lee Bell Hammond, Sr. (born 1946), serve on the board of directors of the Fish Creek Ranch Retreat Center and the Straight Arrow Youth Camp.<ref name=bio/> The Hammonds attend New Life Bible Fellowship in Dallas,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nlbf.org/nlbf/index.php?id=98|title=New Life Bible Fellowship|publisher=nlbf.org|accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref> where she is a long-time Sunday school teacher. The Hammonds have three sons and daughters-in-law: Lee Bell "Trey" Hammond, Jr., a pastor in Mississippi, and his wife, Tressa; Arthur Miller Hammond, a lay pastor with the Cowboy Church in Van Alstyne, Texas, and the owner of a land services company, and his wife, Rebecca, and John Walt Hammond, a Texas state trooper in Bryan/College Station, and his wife, Brittany.<ref name-bio/>
In recent years, Angie and Lee Hammond have been remodeling an 1874 farmhouse and filling it with antiques.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Angie}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Right to Life]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]