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 […]
January 22, 2017 is the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Roe v. Wade decision. We will mark the occasion with two consecutive weekends of activism, including protest marches, fundraisers for mothers in need (featuring karaoke!), and training for student pro-life leaders. We’ll be in San Francisco on the weekend of January 21 and […]
Ohio’s heartbeat bill—which prohibited abortions on any unborn human individual with a detectable heartbeat—was vetoed by Governor Kasich. He exercised the veto not on pro-abortion grounds, but out of concern that the legislation would be tied up in court and never go into effect. You’re all having fun debating the wisdom of that decision on […]
[Today’s guest post by Perri is part of our paid blogging program.] A common argument made by pro-choice advocates is that women who did not choose to get pregnant or to have unprotected sex should not have to carry a child to term because they did not choose to take on the responsibility of motherhood. […]