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 […]
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 […]
Fordham University professor Charlie Camosy has an interesting piece in the Daily Caller entitled A Home For The Pro-Life Movement (Beyond The Republican Party). Discussing the failure of national legislation to ban late-term abortions (after 20 weeks), he says: But is the latest pro-life failure of the national GOP really that surprising? This is the […]
This post is the fourth in “Website Under Deconstruction,” our series on abortion center websites. (See the first, second, and third.) Last week, NPR published a propaganda piece featuring the Preterm abortion center in Ohio. I do not hesitate to call it propaganda because it omitted any mention of Lakisha Wilson, who Preterm killed in a […]
I try to be an open-minded person. I obviously have strong beliefs about the right to life, but I am willing to have conversations with people who support abortion or are on the fence. I agree with Josh Brahm of the Equal Rights Institute when he emphasizes the importance of reasoned dialogue among people who […]
On Wednesday, the R-Word project (coordinated by Best Buddies and the Special Olympics) ran a social media campaign called “Spread the word to end the word.” The goal of the project is to make use of the disparaging word “retarded” unacceptable. The pro-life movement, of course, overlaps significantly with the disability rights movement. SPL failed […]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with pro-life activism on college campuses, here is Chalk Day in a nutshell, via Students for Life of America: With a handful of chalk and an arsenal of pro-life slogans, you can leave a lasting impression on hundreds or even thousands of people. Step 1: Pick up sidewalk […]
[Today’s guest post is by Michael Crone and Joseph Kirchner.] History demonstrates that major social transformations, once thought impossible, can be realized very quickly. When momentum reaches a certain level, social opinion reaches a tipping point and the prevailing norm then gives way to a new standard. In the 1850s, slavery was a well-entrenched […]