We shared this on our social media when news first broke, but for those who missed it, Nat Hentoff died on Saturday, January 7 at the age of 91. He lived a long life, and a principled one. He was a vocal advocate for civil liberties, particularly freedom of speech, and courageously included the rights […]
Americans United for Life has released its 2017 Life List, which ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their legal protections for unborn children and regulation of the abortion industry. Unsurprisingly, the west coast states and New England have awful records. The most pro-life states are more evenly spread out. The ten […]
President-elect Trump has narrowed his short list to replace the late Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court. Politico reports that there are now eight serious contenders. Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has made no secret of the fact that he opposes Roe v. Wade, both for its shoddy legal reasoning […]
Yesterday, Representative Paul Ryan announced that, as expected, the next federal budget will defund Planned Parenthood. Cue claims from major pro-choice organizations and your well-meaning facebook friends that funding for breast cancer screenings, birth control, STD testing, etc. is being cut and we must hate women. The truth is that the amount of money allocated […]
The theme for the second annual Pro-Life Women’s Conference is “Life Empowers Women.” Are you a mom who became pregnant under difficult circumstances? Are you alive today because the pro-life movement offered support to your mom? Are you a birth mother, adoptee, or adoptive parent? The organizers want to hear your stories about how life […]
I have a short and sweet response to those who claim that the United States cannot achieve equality for women without abortion: We’ve never tried. Here’s the longer version of that answer. When abortion was legalized in 1973, marital rape was legal. It was gradually criminalized on a state-by-state basis, finally becoming illegal in every U.S. […]
Shortly before Christmas, Salon published an article that surprised me. I almost didn’t read it, because I’m not a big Salon fan; it’s home to many anti-choicers-hate-women screeds, and I still have some lingering distrust from the publication’s anti-vaccine days (although there appears to have been some improvement on that front in the years since […]
Hoo boy. 2016. This year was a rough one for a lot of us, for a lot of reasons. January brought a snowstorm that prevented many people from attending the March for Life and caused the Students for Life of America east coast conference to be cancelled. Then, of course, we had a brutal election […]
The most-read articles on this blog for 2016 are… 10. The Canadian March for Life, Tomatoes, and Progress. Guest blogger Alan Trahan reports from the Canadian March for Life, where he carried his “We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Pro-Life” sign. He says: “It was an amazing crowd, with an opening address by an Algonquin elder […]
Drum roll please… click to enlarge… our most liked and shared graphics of 2016 are… 10. This graphic we wish we could claim credit for, but belongs to our friends at the Life Matters Journal 9. Hey, remember when NARAL freaked out during the Super Bowl for no reason? 8. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the […]