I have been a highly involved pro-life advocate for nearly a decade now, and I also happen to be a lawyer. And yet I didn’t know about this interesting fact until recently. I came across it completely by chance. So here’s your fun fact of the day: turtles can bring lawsuits. I’m completely serious (click […]
Last week, pro-life media outlets broke the story of a pro-abortion children’s book entitled Sister Apple, Sister Pig. The lead character in the book is a little boy who is happy about the fact that his sister was aborted, because “If you kept my sister, you would be tired, and sad, and mad!” The idea […]
I can’t put it much better than this young woman does in her email to Secular Pro-Life: My name is Clare McKinney and I am an undergraduate student at Saint Marys College in Notre Dame, IN. I am an active member in the University of Notre Dame’s Right to Life Club. This has put me […]
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 pro-life movement. It includes interviews with a diverse array of pro-life leaders, including Secular Pro-Life’s Kelsey Hazzard and Pro-Life Humanists’ Kristine Kruszelnicki. Click here for our […]
Yesterday, LifeNews published an article entitled “Ambulance Rushes to Abortion Clinic that Killed Woman in Botched Abortion One Year Ago.” The abortion business at issue is Preterm in Cleveland, OH, where 22-year-old Lakisha Wilson bled to death in March of 2014. In response, advocates for women and their unborn babies are once again calling for […]
This morning, the Supreme Court holds oral argument in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Although the case itself has nothing to do with life issues, the precedent it sets could have a major impact on funding for pregnancy resource centers and clinics. The Texas chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) […]
You sure are! Tomorrow, March 21, is World Down Syndrome Day. We mark the occasion on March 21 (3/21) because Down Syndrome is caused by three copies of chromosome 21. And here are three ways to participate: 1) Wear some colorful socks! Down Syndrome International, which coordinates World Down Syndrome day, asks us to wear […]
If a pro-choice person you’re talking to understands the distinction between the question of biological humanity and philosophical personhood, he/she will undoubtedly attempt to find some property/properties that persons must possess in order to be a person. Some common ones are consciousness, self-awareness, sentience (meaning the ability to sense and feel pain), and desires. While the […]
On Sunday, I was researching an abortion business for our “Website Under Deconstruction” series, and wound up contacting the Walt Disney Company’s corporate office. For those of you who haven’t visited a Disney park, FastPass is a program that allows you to skip to the front of the line for rides. In essence, it saves […]
National Review reports: Feminists are now arguing about whether or not it’s offensive to talk about abortion as a “women’s issue” because gender is not that simple and men have abortions too. National Review’s attitude about the matter is rather sarcastic. For example: At the risk of being branded a “cissexist,” feminist essayist and poet […]