[Today’s guest post by Chandler Klebs is part of our paid blogging program.] Consider this situation: A man chooses to have sex with a woman who he knows will go for an abortion if she gets pregnant. She does get pregnant. She goes to an abortionist, who performs the abortion. Which of the three people […]
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about one of the major problems I have with the bodily autonomy argument: that it’s totally at odds with people’s real-life experiences with abortion. In keeping with that theme, here’s another issue I have with the bodily autonomy argument. If the bodily autonomy argument were genuine, abortion supporters […]
By now you’ve probably heard about the #womenagainstfeminism trend, and all the condemnations and refutations it has prompted. (I sure hope so, because it’s a bit much to summarize.) I am a woman. I am not against feminism. I am very much for feminism. Problem is, those statements depend a lot on what you mean […]
A reader emailed me asking if we could do a piece on the oft-touted statistic that “1 in 3 women will have an abortion in her lifetime” (or “by age 45”). Happy to oblige. By the way, suggestions for blog topics are always welcome. The pro-choice movement loves to use the 1-in-3 statistic, arguing that […]
The other day, I had an interesting private twitter conversation with well-known abortion advocate and author Robin Marty. Marty was promoting a local project that plans to call itself a “pregnancy center,” but that will refer for abortions. The idea is that it will treat abortion, adoption, and parenting as equally valid options and offer […]
Be very careful what you wish for, pro-choicers. The pro-life movement has long put post-abortive women front and center. The faith-based group Silent No More is the most prominent in this arena, although there are others. These women speak about their experiences and urge people in crisis pregnancies not to make the same mistakes they […]
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 […]
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