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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Young adult anti-abortion advocates organized by Secular Pro-Life have launched #NextNominee, a campaign to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy with a pro-life woman. The centerpiece of the campaign is a petition hosted at petitions.whitehouse.gov, a federal website that allows concerned citizens to voice their concerns directly to White House officials. If […]
Last week, Operation Rescue announced its discovery that Biomedical Waste Services was the disposal company picking up the remains of victims at thirteen surgical abortion facilities in Maryland—including the notorious late-term abortion center operated by Leroy Carhart. Carhart has killed several women in the course of his practice, in addition to untold numbers of children in […]
Two critical life-related matters are open for public comment. The first is a proposed federal regulation that would protect Title X funds from Planned Parenthood. The second is a proposal before the American Board of Medical Specialities (AMBS) to create a new board specialty in “Complex Family Planning”—code for late-term abortion. Title X Regulation As […]
On May 25, Ireland voted in favor of appealing their 8th amendment, passed in 1983, which addressed the equal right to life of unborn children and their mothers. The results were announced the following morning, to reactions of cheers, celebrations, and tears. These were happy tears from the pro-choice crowd, shed because while the country […]