A late-term abortion business in Bethesda, MD, operated by the notorious Leroy Carhart, is the defendant in two separate federal lawsuits alleging injuries from botched abortions. The lawsuits were filed in July and September of this year. Both abortions occurred in May of 2020. The first plaintiff, Haiamont Aragaw, pursued a eugenic discrimination abortion at […]
Virginians will elect a new governor on November 2. Early voting has already begun. Pro-life advocates have a keen interest in the race, not only because of its potential impact on protections for unborn children in Virginia, but also because it could serve as a bellwether for the 2022 midterms. Current Virginia Governor Ralph Northam […]
The Supreme Court has taken up the Biden administration’s lawsuit against the Texas Heartbeat Act and will hear oral arguments next Monday, November 1. This will not be an argument about the incorrectness of Roe and Casey. The Court has limited its consideration to one issue: “May the United States bring suit in federal court […]
[Photo credit Patricia Prudente from Unsplash] Personhood and Artificial Womb Technology In 2017, artificial womb technology was successfully used to support lamb fetuses that had been transferred from their mothers, and there’s hope that this technology will soon be used on very premature human infants. This makes it important to think about the moral status […]
Photo credit NeONBRAND with Unsplash Today’s guest blog post is by Kristina Artuković Anyone who is in any way involved in the debate on prenatal justice knows that it usually involves tiring discussions about the meaning of terms like human, person, personhood or potentiality. More versed pro-choice advocates insist that the meaning of human is […]
Dear Young Texan, I am not sure how to address you. I do not know your name. I do not know your gender. I do not even know, definitively, whether you will grow up in Texas. Many years will pass before you will be old enough to read this. But with a few clues, I […]
Pro-life Catholic reporter Christine Rousselle recently interviewed Kelsey Hazzard (pictured), the president of Secular Pro-Life, for an article in the National Catholic Register about the upcoming Dobbs case at the Supreme Court. An excerpt from that article appears below. * * * This December, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the […]
The pro-choice position has long focused on the role religious fervor plays in anti-abortion politics. Images of nuns marching with anti-abortion protestors are splashed across our front pages, and video clips of evangelical men with megaphones and Bibles protesting outside of clinics are ubiquitous online. It seems all but a forgone conclusion that an individual’s […]
The pro-life community is rightly excited about Dobbs, the 15-week abortion case which could finally bring American abortion law in line with scientific consensus (life in the womb plainly exists prior to viability), popular sovereignty (most Americans oppose abortion in the second and third trimesters), and international norms (the United States is one of only […]
As told to Lisa Bast. She was unmarried, struggling with a heroin addiction, and already had two children who her parents were trying to help her raise. This baby would be her third in three years. She had no longing to be a mother again nor was her family supportive of her giving birth to […]