It’s that time of year, when I rave about the Wilberforce Fellowship and Stevens Fellowship offered through Students for Life of America (SFLA) and encourage you to apply. The Wilberforce Fellowship brings together a select group of pro-life college students—who are already leaders of their campus organizations—and trains them to take their leadership skills to […]
Switzerland has recently banned the practice of boiling lobsters alive, on the grounds that they might feel pain. And while we can easily accuse Switzerland of hypocrisy for being preoccupied with lobsters after they’ve deemed it okay to kill innocent humans through abortion and euthanasia, let’s not be dismissive. Fetal development at 20 weeks No […]
Last weekend, we traveled to San Francisco for the Walk for Life West Coast. California’s counterpart to the March for Life brought together people from all walks of life. Liberals and conservatives, atheists and Christians, and people of every race and nationality joined forces in support of children in the womb and their mothers. It […]
The Walk for Life West Coast, San Francisco’s answer to the March for Life, takes place this weekend. Here are some things to do. Friday, January 26 (tonight) Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust will display pro-life messages on light boards at Union Square, corner of Powell and Post, starting around 6:00 p.m. Then at 7:30, […]
Americans United for Life (AUL) just released its annual legislative guidebook, Defending Life, which tracks state laws, provides model legislation, and suggests priorities for legislators in each state. [Full disclosure: I once interned at AUL.] AUL also releases an annual ranking, the Life List, which is based on the degree of legal protection each state […]
It’s been a hectic few days as we joined hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates from all over the country. Secular Pro-Life was ably represented by three atheist women: yours truly (Kelsey Hazzard), co-admin Terrisa Bukovinac, and Sarah Terzo of ClinicQuotes. I arrived in D.C. on Thursday and stopped by the March for Life Expo; […]
The March for Life was a whirlwind! We’ll have a recap for you soon. In the meantime, check out these articles from the last few days, starting with one that quotes Secular Pro-Life. Trump will address Friday’s March for Life via satellite. Here’s what abortion opponents want. Washington Post, Michelle Boorstein & Julie Zauzmer “I […]
Join us for a pre-March meetup (details here), then march with us to the Supreme Court to protest the 45 years of destruction wrought by Roe v. Wade. That night we will have a karaoke fundraiser. On Saturday, you can find us at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University; this year’s theme […]
Via Friendly Atheist comes the sad story of a needless death due to inadequate regulation of questionable medical practitioners. But this time, the culprit is not an abortion business; instead, it’s a birth center run by unqualified naturopaths. Britt Marie Hermes is a former naturopath who came to realize that her education was not grounded […]
This time last year, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Christina Bennett at the Students for Life of America east and west coast national conferences. I am a white atheist, and she is a black Christian. Our topic was “Tactics of Inclusion”—she spoke to racial diversity and I spoke to religious diversity. We developed […]