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Under Hammond's 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/>
 
Under Hammond's 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/>
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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>
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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>
    
Outspoken in opposition to taxpayer-funded abortions through such groups as [[Planned Parenthood]], Hammond once said that she had never witnessed a poor woman  determined to procure an abortion who could not find a way to finance the procedure without government funding. Hammond warns women of the risks of abortion to themselves as well as death to the child. In her words,:  
 
Outspoken in opposition to taxpayer-funded abortions through such groups as [[Planned Parenthood]], Hammond once said that she had never witnessed a poor woman  determined to procure an abortion who could not find a way to finance the procedure without government funding. Hammond warns women of the risks of abortion to themselves as well as death to the child. In her words,:  
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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/>
 
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/>
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