What is the PIE Project, you ask? PIE stands for Pro-life Information and Experience. The idea is to document the cumulative knowledge of the pro-life movement, so that people don’t have to re-invent the wheel. This is being done with short videos (under 5 minutes) in which pro-life leaders share their perspectives on key topics. […]
Tomorrow morning, Secular Pro-Life founder and president Kelsey Hazzard will appear on The Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia on WBEZ, the Chicago affiliate of National Public Radio. The Morning Shift will begin at 9:50 am EST (8:50 am CST) and Hazzard will join in about twenty minutes into the program. The topic will be how […]
The Susan B. Anthony List is working with pro-life politicians to develop talking points about pregnancy from rape. The always reasonable Amanda Marcotte sees this as evidence of malfeasance, declaring: “The SBA List isn’t interested in discouraging Republican politicians from holding ugly, sexist beliefs about domestic and sexual violence. They’re just here to help politicians […]
It’s hard to believe that Roe v. Wade is turning 40 years old next week. Over 55 million unborn babies have died since January 22, 1973. Abortion supporters will be celebrating this as a triumph. Many Secular Pro-Life members will be gathering at the March for Life in D.C. or the Walk for Life in […]
There was no shortage of great pro-life articles last week. Here are three that you should take the time to read in full. In an excellent article at Public Discourse, Russell Nieli recounts a Princeton University debate and explains what pro-lifers can learn from Karl Marx: “Karl Marx,” I said, “got most things wrong” (some […]
[Today’s article, by Bill Saunders and Kelsey Hazzard, originally appeared on LifeNews.] Planned Parenthood recently released its latest annual report, showing its services and finances for 2011. As many pro-life advocates have noted, the report shows that Planned Parenthood is continuing to expand its abortion business, and its bottom line. In addition, the report shows […]
Above: Mr. Swirling Scott Richard Swirling, a former executive director of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), has been arrested for attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a twelve-year-old girl. According to the Washington Examiner: Scott Richard Swirling, 61, thought he was discussing plans to meet a District man who was […]
[Today’s post is reprinted from Clinic Quotes, a website run by SPL member Sarah T.] Mandatory waiting periods before abortions reduce the suicide rate among women ages 25-64, according to a study. In the study “Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortions and Female Mental Health” by Jonathan Klick, it was determined that the suicide rate of […]
You probably know that Secular Pro-Life’s president has written a book, Cultivating Weeds (available here and on Kindle). But we aren’t the only ones with a new book! Students for Life of America is about to release Courageous: Students Abolishing Abortion in this Lifetime. Unlike Cultivating Weeds, which is a work of fiction, Courageous is a […]
The Irish Times is infamous within the pro-life movement for irresponsibly running with the story that a young woman named Savita Halappanavar had died because she was denied an abortion. Irish pro-lifers familiar with Irish medical practice were skeptical— and sure enough, the reporter later admitted that Savita may not have wanted an abortion at all. […]