From the Chicago Tribune: Tonya Reaves died Friday after she began to hemorrhage, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her death was ruled an accident. The pregnancy and “cervical dilation and evacuation,” which is a technical term for abortion, that she received at the Planned Parenthood clinic, 18 S. Michigan Ave. were listed […]
Secular Pro-Life is working on a short video that will tackle the grand-daddy of all pro-abortion arguments: bodily autonomy. Of course, there has been no shortage of discourse on this topic– most of it dry and unmemorable. But nobody is going to say that about this video. Why not? Because our short video is going to […]
The Washington Post suggests that it would be controversial for Mitt Romney to pick Condoleezza Rice as a VP candidate due to Rice’s “mildly pro-choice” views. Rice has previously stated she supports parental notification and is against late-term abortions (as are most Americans). However, regarding Roe v. Wade, Rice has said, “I have not wanted to see […]
Life Matters Journal is looking for a graphic/layout designer to help produce issues. This is a pro-bono internship that requires: Help with layout/graphic design for four issues in a one year cycle (see their latest issue here); Working internet with Skype for meetings, consultations, and interviews; Experience in Adobe InDesign (send applicable work if possible); and […]
The Washington Times reports on reactions to the Affordable Care Act in terms of the abortion debate: “Defeat Obama, elect Mitt Romney and repeal Obamacare,” David O’Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), said in response to the high court’s 5-4 decision Thursday, which found the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act constitutional under the […]
[From “I think, therefore I blog,” Jameson Graber considers the dynamics between Secular Pro-Life and a) religious pro-lifers and b) pro-choice secularists. Excerpts are reprinted with permission.] SPL’s blog regularly receives comments from people trying to “uncover” their secret religious affiliation. Their presence at the Reason Rally was not exactly well-received by all. Why is this? … Accusing […]
Wonderful exploration by Kathryn Reed: I decided when I was thirteen that I was both an atheist and prolife. I became an atheist because I had no belief in a spiritual reality. I became prolife because my biology class taught a section about the development of the human embryo and fetus. I saw a human […]
[Today’s post is written by Jameson Graber, originally posted on his blog, “I think, therefore I blog.” Post reprinted with permission.] Here’s a story that escaped me until just today: Professor Richard Gardner of Oxford University, a renowned expert on human reproduction and an advisor to Britain’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, recently raised the prospect of […]
Teenage pregnancy is a tough topic to discuss. That’s even more true when your medium of discussion is a comic strip. So I want to take just a brief moment to highlight today’s Zits strip. Pregnancy-related humor often relies, sadly, on making the pregnant woman the butt of the joke. I am happy to see […]
[Our first post by guest blogger LN.] I completely agree with pro-choice writer Allison Benedikt. In her article, “Why Pro-Choicers Should Be OK With Sex-Selection Abortions,” she points out that pro-choicers feeling squeamish about a particular reason for having an abortion makes no sense. She’s right. This is pretty elementary stuff: The pro-choice movement is […]