[Today’s guest post by Nathaniel Givens originally appeared on his personal blog, Difficult Run.] Will Saletan, the national correspondent at Slate, is a smart and independent thinker on the abortion issue. He even wrote a controversial but highly regarded book called Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War. Peter Beinart, editor of The New […]
[Today’s guest post by JoAnna Wahlund is part of our paid blogging program.] Last June, Texas state senator Wendy Davis became infamous due to her ultimately unsuccessful attempt to filibuster proposed abortion laws that implemented rigorous safety regulations on abortion facilities and also banned abortion after 20 weeks gestation (with exceptions for the life of […]
[Today’s guest post by Chris Rostenberg is part of our paid blogging program.] Many mental health providers in Westchester County, New York, censor speech about abortion in day programs, outpatient or inpatient therapy, group therapy, one-on-one therapy, social clubs and half-way houses. I have a mental illness. I also believe strongly that abortion is a […]
Today’s blog post serves as a place to compile sources for the assertions in the above graphic. As an initial matter, let me note that it is not Secular Pro-Life’s position that unborn children must “earn their keep” to have the right to life. (In the same vein, the fact that infants sleep and poop […]
[Today’s guest post by Roger McCormack is part of our paid blogging program.] I wrote recently on this blog regarding the connection between religious chauvinism and sex-selective abortion, using reactionary Hinduism as an example. Sadly, this phenomenon extends to the Muslim world as well. Extremist Islamic subcultures devalue women, and sometimes this devaluation is accomplished […]
Tonight at 6:00 p.m., Secular Pro-Life’s Monica Snyder will give a presentation at Stanford University. This event is free and open to the public. All the details you need, you’ll find on the facebook event page. Hope to see you there!
[Today’s guest post by Rachel Cox is part of our paid blogging program.] [WARNING: As the title implies, this blog post is highly disturbing. You should not read it if you have a weak stomach.] Most people who see nothing wrong with abortion have that belief because they don’t think an unborn baby is a […]
Judge Boggs NARAL has been flooding my Facebook feed with paid advertisements for a petition to thwart the nomination of Judge Michael Boggs to the federal bench. This is a little strange, since you may recall from high school civics class that federal judges are nominated by the President; you might also recall that the […]
Today’s post was contributed by guest blogger Nick Reynosa. Some people think the terms “secular” and “pro-life” are mutually exclusive, or even oppose each other. In fact it seems that both the secular and pro-life movements have come to view each other as foes, and not friends. For example the Secular Coalition of America has […]
Advertisement for the Life/Peace/Justice conference, March 29 In the coming weeks, you can hear Secular Pro-Life presentations on both coasts! On Wednesday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m., Monica Snyder will speak at Stanford University. This event will be free and open to the public. The room is to be determined; check secularprolife.org for updates. And […]