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Monica Snyder

About Monica Snyder

Monica Snyder is the Executive Director of Secular Pro-Life. She has been working with SPL since its founding in 2009. Monica has a BS in Chemical Biology and MS in Forensic Science and takes a particular interest in biological facts and peer-reviewed research related to the abortion debate.

Entries by Monica Snyder

Did Texas’ Heartbeat Law increase infant mortality rates?

June 27, 2024 in Ableism, Later Abortion, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

A transcription of the video, with source links and post-video notes, follows. A new study purports to show an increase in infant mortality in Texas due to their Heartbeat Bill: their September 2021, approximately six week abortion ban. Specifically, the study found an excess of 216 infant deaths, or a 12.7% increase over what they […]

Pivoting to Unwanted and Coerced Abortion: A Manifesto

June 19, 2024 in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

The following is a reprint from Public Discourse. This article was co-authored by Monica Snyder (SPL’s Executive Director), Charles Camosy, and Eric Scheidler. While we continue to seek ways to extend robust legal protection to prenatal children and to persuade our pro-choice brothers and sisters that such laws are necessary to forge a truly just […]

Recap: SPL’s 2024 Trivia Night

May 24, 2024 in Administrative, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Monica Snyder

On May 18, we hosted Secular Pro-Life’s 2nd annual trivia night outside St. Louis, Missouri. It was fantastic. SPL’s primary mission is to advance secular arguments against abortion. But our mission includes two additional parts: make space for non-traditional (especially non-religious) pro-life people, and build interfaith coalitions (people of any faith or no faith) to […]

“Should I be mom friends with a woman who raises money for Planned Parenthood?”

May 8, 2024 in Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Recently we received this message on our Instagram account (reposted with permission) from a follower I will call Emily: Here was my response: Wonderful question! Of course you always have to do what is most comfortable for you, but I would definitely recommend being friends with her. I lived in California most of my adult […]

Meet Michelle, Our Communications Intern

May 6, 2024 in Administrative, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Secular Pro-Life exists because of volunteers. In 2009, SPL began as a work of heart for our founder (Kelsey), myself, and a select few others. Today our organization benefits from the knowledge, time, and talents of dozens of volunteers, which is why, despite our shoestring budget, our content is viewed over a million times per […]

2024 Heartbeat International Recap

May 1, 2024 in Speeches, Discussions, Presentations, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Last week I went to Salt Lake City to speak at the Heartbeat International conference. Heartbeat International is an association of thousands of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) and hosts an annual conference offering affiliates detailed training on running successful PRCs. The conference is massive. This year they boasted approximately 1,300 attendees in person, plus countless […]

“What kind of mothering do you expect?”

April 26, 2024 in Adoption & Foster Care, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

(Any time we discuss women who don’t regret being denied abortion, people think we are claiming their perspectives are a reason to ban abortion. In fact, there are multiple reasons to take notice of these women’s experiences, regardless of your views on abortion laws.) Some people believe if a woman gives birth only because she […]

Recap: “Myths” presentation at the University of Portland

March 29, 2024 in Research, Speeches, Discussions, Presentations, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

The pro-life organization at the University of Portland (UP), Voices For Life, invited me to give my presentation “Deconstructing Pro-Choice Myths” on March 25. Preceding Events I wasn’t involved with the events preceding the presentation, but to my understanding they went as follows. In the weeks before the talk, Voices For Life created this poster […]

Sources for “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths,” presented on March 25, 2024

March 25, 2024 /0 Comments/in Biology, Later Abortion, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Research /by Monica Snyder

Today at University of Portland, SPL Executive Director Monica Snyder is giving her presentation “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths.” Below are all the sources she used for today’s version of the presentation. This is one of several presentations SPL offers, which you can review here. (You can watch a former version of the Myths presentation here; […]

“Oh, so are you against the death penalty?”

March 22, 2024 in Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Periodically people will comment on our social media accounts asking if we oppose the death penalty. Most often the question is in the context of pro-choicers trying to identify our (perceived) hypocrisies, apparently as a justification for ignoring whatever we have to say regarding abortion. To begin with, Secular Pro-Life does not take a position […]

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