According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Come Tuesday, Utah will become the only state in the nation with a law requiring a woman to wait 72 hours for an abortion. … “I think it’s a positive change for women and children,” said [Sponsoring Rep. Steve] Eliason. “At the end of the day, it’s a consumer-protection law.“The […]
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy recently conducted a survey of 1,002 teens (age 12-19) and 1,032 adults (age 20 and older) regarding teenage sex and sexual education. Some key findings include: Teenage Sexual Activity 42% of teens agreed with the following statement: “It doesn’t matter whether you use birth control or […]
Yesterday Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law HB 2800, known as the Whole Women’s Health Funding Priority Act. HB 2800 is intended to prevent indirect monies from being applied to organizations that provide “nonfederally qualified abortions,” but some groups believe the bill’s effects are unclear. Arizona state law already prevents direct taxpayer funding of abortions. […]
Secular Pro-Life urges supporters of the right to life, women’s health, and freedom of speech to boycott the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University. The boycott will continue until Drexel reforms its unethical pro bono program. In March, Secular Pro-Life broke the story that Drexel was promoting two pro-abortion pro bono projects. The […]
Students for Life of America is raising a firestorm over a recent incident at Western Kentucky University (WKU). The pro-life student organization there, Hilltoppers for Life, put on a Cemetery of the Innocents display, with a “cemetery” of 3300 small crosses to symbolize the average of 3300 abortions that take place each day in the […]
[Today’s post is written by Delroy Dyer, a pro-life atheist at Carleton University in Ottawa. This article was originally posted by Campaign Life Coalition, and is reprinted with permission.] Delroy Dyer Throughout life, one goes through changes. As time goes on, you’re supposed to be changing for the better. You’re older, and supposed to be […]
This is not an explicitly pro-life video, but pro-life advocates certainly can (and should) take lessons from the failures of history. The take-away point is this: the Trail of Tears was a result of the politically powerful ignoring the constitutional rights of weaker persons. They knew it was wrong at the time, but their interest […]
Despite the Obama administration’s pseudo-feminist decision to pull women’s healthcare funding from Texas, the state is not backing down. It has found the funds to administer the Women’s Health Program (WHP) without federal dollars, thereby allowing WHP to prioritize legitimate clinics over those associated with abortion and continue providing care to low-income women. In a recent […]
LifeNews.com reports that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney is considering several pro-life politicians to be his running mate, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Although Romney has received a number of pro-life endorsements […]
The governor of Nebraska has promised to veto LB 199, an important pro-life measure recently passed by the Nebraska legislature. But we aren’t giving up! The legislature has rescheduled its final session to make a vote on veto override possible. All it takes is the support of 30 senators. LB 199 would restore prenatal care […]
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