Kiessling holds a sign: “Conceived from rape. I love my life.” At the March for Life, I had the good fortune to bump into my friend Rebecca Kiessling. Kiessling, like me, is pro-life and an attorney. Kiessling, however, has a special area of advocacy: she is active in Save the 1, a pro-life organization for […]
Last Saturday fellow SPL supporters and I marched in the West Coast Walk for Life through downtown San Francisco. To be blunt, I was not sure I was looking forward to it. I’ve done many SF Walks over the years, but this is the first year I was going to attempt one while 8 months […]
In 1979, at a sold-out concert of The Who with approximately 18,000 fans in attendance, the force of the crowd at the entrance caused 11 people to be crushed to death. In 2008, a crowd of around 2,000 Black Friday shoppers flooded into a Long Island Wal-Mart, fatally trampling 34-year-old employee Jdimytai Damour. At the […]
Your president Kelsey Hazzard here. What a whirlwind week! I’m finally home and able to look back on SPL’s incredible advocacy for life on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On Thursday at 11:00 a.m., I gathered with some of SPL’s strongest supporters, both non-theist and theist, to announce Pro-Life Allies, a new coalition […]
Great news! 40 will have its network television debut on Wednesday, January 21, at 11:00 p.m. EST. That’s the night before the March for Life. 40, so called because it was produced in conjunction with the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 2013, is a documentary film about the history and future of the […]
I recently read Bill Nye’s Undeniable, on the subject of evolution. I read it purely because of my interest in the evolution versus creationism debate; I didn’t expect it to contain any commentary about abortion. Alas, it seems I can’t escape. Actually, to be precise, the abortion commentary began as a segment about opposition to […]
Focus on the Family is one of the most prominent religious right organizations in the United States. It is highly evangelical and has little in common with Secular Pro-Life. But I give credit where credit is due, and Focus on the Family has come up with a fantastic campaign: #iSEETWO. The concept is straightforward: “When […]
Martin Pistorius and his wife Joanna, via the Daily Mail NPR has the story of Martin Pistorius, who lost all motor function and was diagnosed a “vegetable” but was in fact fully aware of everything that happened around him… for over a decade: His parents, Rodney and Joan Pistorius, were told that he was as […]
Why hello, what have we here? These blue bags taking over my living room sofa are SPL’s awesome new secular outreach kits for student groups. They contain 50 copies of our Why Should Non-Christians Care About Abortion? brochure with space for a customized message on the back, plus tips for making your pro-life student group […]
The theme of this year’s March for Life is “Every Life is a Gift.” This theme, as March for Life president Jeanne Monahan explained in an op-ed in The Hill, is meant to draw attention to unborn babies who have been diagnosed with a disability. The piece closed with an invitation “to more fully explore how […]
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