Graphic via Online for Life [Today’s guest post by B. T. S. Agnomen is part of our paid blogging program.] Liberty and equality: our democratic republic was founded on these twin principles. Yet even before and ever since, individuals have posed this perennial question: “Are liberty and equality consistent one with the other, or are they […]
Our friends at the Life Matters Journal have released their latest issue, which you can read online for free here. On abortion, this issue includes commentary from frequent SPL contributors Acyutananda (“What’s in it for the Born?”) and Clinton Wilcox (“Our Identity Remains the Same Throughout Our Entire Life”). There is also a reprint of […]
This past June, Secular Pro-Life launched Prevent Preterm, a campaign to educate future parents about three preventable causes of premature birth. Two, tobacco use and lack of prenatal care, are uncontroversial. The third is a history of abortion. The evidence that abortion is a risk factor for premature birth in subsequent pregnancies is overwhelming. Over […]
Way to be moral agents! Just, you know, try not to kill anybody. It’s a claim that’s cropped up before, but most recently in a leaked video from the National Abortion Federation conference: the claim that pro-lifers do not believe women are moral agents. That’s just silly. Of course women are moral agents. Moral agency […]
An Australian woman who is 26 weeks pregnant and believes that an abortion will ease her suicidal feelings will not receive an abortion from Royal Women’s Hospital. Doctors there are unwilling to kill a viable, healthy baby. The Age reports: In 2008, the procedure was decriminalised, so that women could have one up to 24 […]
Pop quiz: If a complete stranger came up to your family in public and asked your child about yeast infections, and then started screaming “Yeast infections!” repeatedly until everyone left the vicinity, what would you think of that person? (A) That person needs help. (B) That person is brave. The Slate clickbait headline: Brave Portland […]
Late last year, Oklahoma police arrested abortionist Nareshkumar “Naresh” Patel after he sold abortion pills to undercover officers who were not pregnant. He was charged with fraud. As we pointed out at the time, Patel’s scam wasn’t original. Back in 1978, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found that abortion businesses regularly padded their bottom line by selling […]
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. The House of Representatives has voted numerous times to redirect Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to more deserving healthcare providers. You know, ones that don’t defraud Medicaid, cover up statutory rape, or sell baby parts. What a concept. Unfortunately, all of those efforts have fallen flat […]
We’re about three months away from the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and it will be here before you know it. Join Secular Pro-Life as we remember the victims of abortion, celebrate the lives saved, and strategize together to save as many lives as possible in the coming year. We’ll be at the March […]
Last week, we asked Secular Pro-Life fans on facebook: “Where do you think pro-lifers and pro-choicers are most likely to have common ground?” Here are some of the top responses. You can read everything the SPL facebookers had to say here. Carmen J. – It’s not really choice if there are no other choices. I […]