Tonight at 10pm Eastern (9pm Central), the new reality series Born This Way premieres on A&E. The show features seven young adults with Down Syndrome: Elena, Megan, Steven, Sean, Rachel, Cristina, and John. The series is scheduled to run for six episodes, which will cover such topics as marriage, life goals, family relationships, and limitations […]
I recently re-read the wonderful book Why Women Shouldn’t Marry: Being Single by Choice, by Cynthia S. Smith and her daughter Hillary B. Smith. (It was originally published by Cynthia alone in 1988; the second edition, to which daughter Hillary contributed, came out in 2008.) The book is not against all marriages per se, but urges […]
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[Today’s guest post is by Sean Cahill, a recent graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law. She says: “Because it changes the way my voice is heard when it comes to life issues, I feel compelled to state that I’m a woman, despite what my name suggests.”] The idea that childcare is primarily […]
There’s a tendency in pro-life circles to romanticize adoption. The reasons for that are understandable. For many people, adoption is the best available alternative to abortion, but choosing adoption remains clouded by myths and outdated fears from the old days when girls went to “visit extended family” for nine months and adoption was considered a […]
Graphic via Life Matters Journal You already know that on Friday, a gunman killed three people and injured nine others while firing shots from a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood abortion center. 61-year-old Ozy Licano was sitting in his car in the parking lot when he encountered the gunman, identified as Robert Lewis Dear. Dear fired […]
Due to the authors’ travel plans for Thanksgiving, the blog is on hiatus until Monday, November 30. We wish you a happy time with your loved ones.
Everyday Feminism recently published a comic on the “32 types of anti-feminists,” with each type getting a panel. Some of them are pretty funny and sadly accurate. And then there’s this straw man: Where to begin? Okay, let’s begin with appearances. What’s up with his eyes? And his hair? And his nose? And the nervous […]
[Today’s guest post by Barry Stefan is part of our paid blogging program.] “The equal protection of the law should extend to all members of the human family, old or young, black or white, able or disabled, gay or straight, born or unborn—those are the values of human dignity and human equality that should be […]
Students for Life of America produced two commercials encouraging pregnant mothers to use federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) for their care instead of Planned Parenthood. One ad points out that 94% of pregnant women who go to Planned Parenthood wind up having an abortion, a fact that comes straight from PP’s own annual reports. The other […]