Photo Credit Virginia Pride The words “fertility awareness” may invoke different responses from people, depending on what the person has actually been told about it. For some, it is (erroneously) viewed as the outdated Calendar Method – an unreliable form of birth control that gets you pregnant more than it doesn’t. Others may have heard […]
Photo Credit: Marcelo Leal on Unsplash The Problem of Premature Birth Premature birth is a complication involving the birth of a baby before 37 weeks of pregnancy. 1 in 10 babies are born premature, with Black babies facing the greatest risk. Premature births have also risen by 4% in the U.S. from 2020 to 2021 […]
In a post-Dobbs world where the abortion debate continues, Secular Pro-Life has furthered our outreach to online communities. One such way was spreading even more content on TikTok, where SPL members quickly dispel myths, share facts, and touch upon hard topics related to human rights and abortion. With great hope for the next year, we […]
Photo Credit Hannah Busing on Unsplash Yesterday the National March For Life revealed their theme for the 2024 year: “With Every Woman, For Every Child.” This is a natural progression from their 2023 theme, “Next Steps: Marching Forward into a Post-Roe America.” With that came the effort to create and enforce federal policies to protect […]
Children with a prenatal diagnoses of disabilities are disproportionately killed by an abortion. When Kim C. and her husband Darrin became pregnant with a daughter with Down Syndrome, they initially faced a negative response from their doctor. As Kim explained, “When I got our diagnosis, I immediately felt unqualified and feared I would be a […]
Photo Credit Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash Recently, the states of South Carolina and Indiana upheld their laws restricting abortions after months of legal challenges. In both cases, the challenge to their constitutionality was dismissed. South Carolina’s Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (S.474) was passed in late May of 2023, but Planned […]
Photo Credit danilo.alvesd on Unsplash Earlier in 2023, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, other pro-life medical organizations, and individual pro-life physicians filed a federal district court in Dallas, against the FDA concerning their regulations on dispensing mifepristone. This drug is the first of two used in the abortion pill sequence, blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone […]
With past and present attacks on pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), both political and physical, it is natural for pro-life advocates to become frustrated with critiques on one of our most valuable resources. There are several branches of PRCs, some secular (such as Birthright International) and others religiously affiliated (such as Heartbeat International). Still others are […]
#ShoutYourAbortion, and other positive abortion mantras, have taken over the post-Roe conversation in retaliation to abortion restrictions. There comes with it a denial or silence of traumatic abortion experiences. The APA will typically focus on the (short term) trauma of wanted abortions that were denied, rather than the long term trauma of forcibly receiving one. […]
It is crucial that the pro-life movement come together to speak against the lie that abortion is health care. This lie should be called out for what it is: a gross manipulation and abuse of medical ethics, as committed by health professionals who claim to hold a monopoly over the health of women and children. […]