Tomorrow is the deadline to submit your comments to the Department of Health & Human Services in support of the Protect Life Rule. This regulation limits the ability of abortion businesses to obtain government subsidies through the Title X program. Title X is intended to fund contraception, not abortion. The Protect Life Rule will prioritize […]
Mark your calendars for these upcoming pro-life events! August 5-11: #Justice4Life Bus Tour and Rallies Students for Life of America is organizing a nationwide effort to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The #Justice4Life bus tour will cover town halls and campaign rallies of Senators in West Virginia, Indiana, North Dakota, Missouri, and Alaska. […]
The word is “consequence.” “Consequence” has two closely related meanings. First, it can be used to indicate a cause-and-effect relationship, synonymous with the word “result.” A consequence may be positive, negative, or neutral: Monique studied hard over the weekend. As a consequence, she aced her final exam. Joe smoked cigarettes for thirty years. As a […]
Last night, Students for Life of America hosted a webcast on the topic of its Justice4Life campaign, a grassroots effort to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. A recording will be available soon, but in the meantime, here are my notes. Emcee David Bereit David uses the word “opportunity” constantly. An historic opportunity, an […]
This Sunday, July 15, is a big day for two reasons: 1. It’s the submission deadline for Create|Encounter! The second annual Create|Encounter contest, organized by our friends at Rehumanize International, is home to creative works of all kinds—poetry, narrative fiction, paintings, scripts, music, photography, sculpture, video, you name it—that relate to human rights and freedom […]
In case you’ve been living under a rock, President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat made empty by Justice Kennedy’s retirement. Speculation is rampant that Kavanaugh could be the fifth vote necessary to repeal Roe v. Wade—or at the very least, allow states to regulate abortion businesses like the medical […]
Because Justice Kennedy has retired, and why would any other topic appear in your newsfeed? But for those lucky few who do see this, I will be speaking at the National Right to Life convention in Overland Park, Kansas this Saturday. My topic is “Making the Pro-Life Argument from the Secular Perspective” and it will […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in favor of the pregnancy centers challenging a California law that required them to post signage advertising state-funded abortion. The majority opinion, which found that the pregnancy centers were protected by the First Amendment, was written by Justice Thomas and joined by Chief Justice Roberts and […]
The Third Annual Pro-Life Women’s Conference is happening this weekend in St. Louis, and Secular Pro-Life is proud to once again be an exhibiting sponsor. Come by our booth to learn more about our #NextNominee campaign to put a pro-life woman on the Supreme Court (have you joined yet?), and get free stuff! The conference […]
Gallup recently released a series of articles on its latest abortion survey, which goes into much more detail than previous years. There’s far more data than I can realistically cover in a blog post, but here are three things that caught my eye. Confusion about why women seek abortions: 60% of Americans say that abortion […]