Last year before the San Francisco Walk for Life, Monica (SPL co-leader) gave a brief speech about “comfortable” pro-choice people, essentially outlining the most ubiquitous myths that allow people to be comfortable with the pro-choice political position. [And she did this speech before pro-choice people started insisting embryos don’t have hearts.] You can watch the […]
At a town hall in Des Moines on January 26, Kristen Day, the president of Democrats for Life of America, asked Pete Buttigieg whether he would support the Democratic Party platform’s reverting to some language similar to language it had used in 1996 and for several years thereafter. The 1996 platform had contained this: The […]
This weekend, we mark the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the horrific Supreme Court decision which stripped the right to life from unborn children and authorized tens of millions of prenatal killings. Join Secular Pro-Life as we remember the victims of abortion, celebrate the lives saved, and strategize together to save as many lives […]
Planned Parenthood recently released this political ad: The bolded lines below are a transcription of the ad and the unbolded text are my first thoughts. Can I be blatantly honest? My life is at stake in this next election. Yeah, lots of lives are at stake in that next election. Pro-lifers think about that a […]
The poster has followed me from one dorm room to another dorm room, to my apartment in law school and the house where my husband and I raise our children. It’s still in the same cruddy frame I bought in 2006 and really should have replaced a long time ago. It’s hung above bookshelves and […]
Image: Competing protest signs. One reads “Keep abortion safe and legal.” The other reads “Face it… abortion kills a person.” [This article originally appeared at The Fetal Position and is reprinted here with permission.] Occasionally a pro-choice person will give me a link to an article attempting to refute the idea that a new human organism begins […]
Media bias in support of abortion is unfortunately pervasive. This usually shows up in language choices, expressions of opinion, and decisions about what stories to cover in the first place. But occasionally reporters go a step further and publish demonstrably false statements. When that happens, we bring it up on Twitter and push for a […]
An ultrasound of an unborn baby. He or she is about 12 weeks old. The abortion debate is partly a battle between language that describes reality and language that covers it up. Pro-choice advocates refer to abortion as safe, as healthcare. Pro-life advocates counter that abortion is a process in which a human is violently […]
Above: A group of pro-life advocates, including two wheelchair users (Sarah Terzo and Beth Fox). Beth holds a sign reading: “Dr. said abort. Parents said no. I love my life.” This article is by guest author Sophie Trist, a university student in Louisiana. Recently, I came across an op-ed piece in The Hill written by […]
January is always a busy time for Secular Pro-Life, and the pro-life movement as a whole, as we mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and develop strategies to save lives in the new year. Here’s where you’ll find us. Saturday, January 11: Chicago, IL Our friends at Rehumanize International have organized a meetup group […]