Conservative media outlets generally, and pro-life ones in particular, are very concerned about the recent settlement of a lawsuit that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) filed against the IRS. Since I’m secular, pro-life, and an attorney by day, I’d like to weigh in. The FFRF charged that the IRS was failing to enforce rules […]
By now you have probably heard the story of baby Gammy, a child with Down Syndrome and other serious health issues (including a hole in the heart). Gammy’s biological parents are Australian, but he’s spent his entire life in Thailand. The Telegraph explains why: A Thai surrogate mother has received donations from across the world […]
Here’s one of the problems (by no means the only one) that I have with the bodily autonomy argument for abortion. Abortion advocates often compare the decision to continue an existing pregnancy to the decision to donate an organ. I don’t think it’s a great analogy (for reasons touched upon here), but for purposes of […]
[Today’s guest post by Chris Rostenberg is part of our paid blogging program.] When I first heard, in the 1990’s, that abortion was legal through all nine months of pregnancy, I couldn’t believe it. If that were true, why would it not be common knowledge? Why would there be debate over where life began? I […]
[The following are prepared remarks that SPL president Kelsey Hazzard delivered to pro-life Louisiana teenagers at the Joshua Leadership Institute (JLI).] The Pew Forum did an interesting survey in 2009 about the factors that influence people’s views on abortion. They found that three factors predominated: religion, personal experience, and education. Religion was the primary factor for […]
Above: underprivileged children from the Rio Grande Valley, a low-income area of Texas where abortion advocates bemoan the lack of “access” caused by HB2. This photo is from Buckner International, a faith-based charity that has been at work in the Rio Grande Valley since 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade. [Today’s guest post by […]
[Today’s guest post by JoAnna Wahlund is part of our paid blogging program.] Judging by the comments after last week’s post regarding pro-lifers and contraception, there seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding regarding Natural Family Planning (NFP). Since July 20-26 is NFP Awareness Week, I decided to provide this basic overview of NFP […]
And Then There Were None. from Abe Films on Vimeo. We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to urge you to watch the above video from And Then There Were None. We do not use the term “pro-abortion” lightly. We realize that some people truly are pro-choice. But with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy: If you plan […]
When discussing how “rare” or “frequent” something is, what matters more: percentages, or absolute numbers? In the abortion debate, this problem comes up in at least two contexts: rape, and late-term abortions. Abortion advocates maintain that pregnancy from rape is a common occurrence. They also maintain that late-term abortions are rare, as they are only […]
Years ago, I encountered a piece in Feminism & Nonviolence Studies entitled “Feminist, Prolife, and Atheist,” by Kathryn Reed. At the time, I had no idea that atheism was in my future. What really stuck with me was not the title, or even the body of the article, but one of the subheadings: “Converting Abortion Clinics […]