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 […]
We have three new upcoming events for you: 1) On the evening of Friday, August 29, SPL West Coast Coordinator Monica Snyder will speak at the Make Noise! Youth Rally in Bakersfield, CA. This event is sponsored by Right to Life Kern County. Details here. 2) On Monday, September 8, SPL President Kelsey Hazzard will […]
SPL supporter Nicole J. won our “Language of Life” t-shirt contest with these companion designs: This is a great conversation-starter, without being confrontational or over-the-top. (“Why does it say ‘conceived to be wild’ instead of ‘born to be wild’?” “Because human life begins at conception; our language just hasn’t caught up to the science.”) You […]
[Today’s guest post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] Philosopher David Boonin, who is a prominent advocate of abortion rights, is in my opinion one of the most sophisticated defenders of abortion rights out of the authors I have read. He is somewhat different from most abortion rights advocates in that […]
[Today’s post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] It’s well-established, as a scientific matter, that preborn embryos and fetuses are living human organisms. Nevertheless, many abortion advocates claim that the human embryo is not really a human being, but is merely a clump of cells, no more valuable than any somatic […]
[Today’s guest post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] It is absolutely critical that the issue dividing the pro-lifers and abortion advocates be clarified and not muddled by irrelevancies. As author Scott Klusendorf points out in The Case for Life: “If you think a particular argument for elective abortion begs the […]
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