This is a public service announcement to let you know that if you want to bring a Secular Pro-Life speaker to your campus next semester, you should contact us soon. We have already heard from pro-life clubs at three colleges, which is excellent! Our two speakers, Kelsey Hazzard (me) and Monica Snyder, are both volunteers. […]
New York City is not a good place for unborn babies. The area has long had an abysmally high abortion rate, and even after a recent reported decline, it’s double the national average. But now, the unborn children and born infants of NYC face another threat, one that is largely beyond the control of their […]
On occasion, pro-choicers will argue that the government’s use of birthdays as a starting point to measure age is evidence that life begins at birth rather than at conception. In fairness, these are usually not pro-choicers who are deeply involved in the debate. Intellectually honest pro-choicers realize that the argument from birthdays is extremely weak, […]
Ha! Made you look at the headline! Now read the whole article, because it’s a little more complicated. Secular Pro-Life has always been open to people of any faith or no faith. Still, SPL is often associated with, well, secularism. Our leadership is comprised of non-theists, and we’re always going on about that “over six […]
My friend Jennie is a wonderful pro-life young woman. I’ve known her for years and she has a big heart. Her 24th birthday is today, and true to form, she’s thinking about those less fortunate. She wants to collect 24,000 diapers for charity by the end of the month. She’s been soliciting friends to help […]
[Today’s guest post is by Rebecca Stapleford.] As a pro-life activist who supports comprehensive sex education, reliable contraception, and pro-life legislation to reduce the number of abortions performed, I was deeply disheartened to learn that my university’s sex education club, which is officially connected to my university’s student health center, is officially pro-choice. This revelation […]
New Event: Screening of the 40 Film in Naples, FL 40 is a documentary film that paints a picture of the pro-life movement forty years after Roe v. Wade. Along the way, the film examines issues of feminism, rape, secular and religious values, prenatal development, and more. It also features the personal stories of women […]
[Today’s guest post by Rachel Enders is part of our paid blogging program. Get more thoughts from Rachel at her Pro-Life For All tumblr. She also blogs about sexual health at Birds, Bees, and Other Things, which is not remotely safe for work.] The past year or so has been very exciting for pro-life activists. In Texas, […]
Meet Joe, the star of today’s hypothetical. Joe hates wearing seat belts. He does wear them, but only because it’s required by law in his state and he’s gotten a few too many citations. Joe gets into a serious car accident, but survives. Doctors tell him that without the seat belt, he almost certainly would […]
[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 […]
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