The Turnaway Study found that 96% of women who gave birth after being denied an abortion ended up saying they no longer wished they’d aborted. (More details here.) Pro-choice people often think we cite this statistic as a reason to outlaw abortion. Examples: We don’t think abortion should be outlawed because when women give birth […]
From time to time we ask our followers “If you used to be pro-choice and you’re now pro-life, tell us why.” We’ve posted some of the answers to that question (and similar questions) here. Among the recurring themes are people who sincerely believed most abortions take place when the embryo is just a “clump of […]
Bonner General Health (BGH), a hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, has announced it is ending it’s labor and delivery services. You may have seen headlines like these: The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, which had been around since 1973. That means legislatures across the country are grappling with changes to a decades-long legal status quo. […]
I do not care about your sex life. As long as we’re talking about consenting adults, I don’t care who you have sex with or when or why. I hope everyone involved stays safe and healthy, but aside from those factors it’s not just that I don’t care. I’m actively uninterested. And yet, like many […]
There are several places in the United States where it is legal to abort a viable fetus for non-medical reasons. By this I mean it’s legal for a woman (1) who is 24 weeks pregnant or further (2) to undergo a procedure that has the intent and result of killing the fetus (3) when there […]
Pro-choice people accuse pro-lifers of insincerity and hypocrisy. Pro-lifers oppose abortion because we believe abortion kills morally valuable human beings. This is the core premise of the pro-life position. For many people, this central tenet inspires us to spend a lot of time, energy, and resources trying to change our culture and laws so that […]
When discussing whether women regret abortion, I think people are using different meanings of the word “regret.” Some mean feeling remorse over an event or wishing it had gone differently. Others mean feeling sorrow or otherwise suffering. The ideas are similar but not identical. The distinction is important when we discuss whether women regret their […]
The journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics recently published an issue focused on how people are affected by pregnancy loss. I’m grateful to say my story was one of those chosen for publication. I’ve talked about my experiences with miscarriage in blog posts before (especially Our cultural gaslighting of women who miscarry before 20 weeks and […]
The Ethics of Abortion by Christopher Kaczor is one of the more frequently recommended pro-life works from our followers (see our reading list). Goodreads summarizes the book as follows: Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all […]
“Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one.” This talking point is simultaneously one of the most recurrent and least persuasive pro-choice arguments. First and foremost, pro-lifers view abortion as a human rights violation, and it makes no sense to tell people concerned about human rights violations to mind their own business. [See the related TikTok – […]