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Advice Column: Dealing with Online Bullies
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardToday’s advice-seeker wants your two cents on the nightmare that is social media. Here is her question (which has been edited for length and to omit personally identifying details): For the last several years I’ve been sympathetic to the pro-life position, supportive of really early gestational limits (e.g. 10 weeks) and disliked the vilification of […]
Baby Chris is Twelve Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 13 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] One-third of this pregnancy is over! Baby Chris has entered the second trimester, and this week, his or her weight has increased about 58%. He or she is now about the size of […]
In One Week: Pro-Life Women’s Conference
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe fourth annual Pro-Life Women’s Conference will take place next weekend, from Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23, in New Orleans! This year’s theme is “When Women Lead,” and it will feature presentations by female physicians, activists, attorneys, and more. As always, it’s family-friendly and there will be opportunities for enrichment through art, self-care, and […]
Are Human Embryos Human Beings from the Beginning?
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton WilcoxPhoto by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Pro-choice advocates will insist that the human embryo doesn’t become a human being until birth or at least sometime late in pregnancy. Pro-life people generally agree with the scientific consensus that human life begins at fertilization; once the ovum cell is fertilized by the sperm cell, a new, genetically distinct human organism […]
Baby Chris is Eleven Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 12 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] Eleven weeks after conception (13 weeks LMP), Baby Chris is about three inches long. It’s been a busy week for the development of facial features. The tiny nose and lips have formed, allowing Baby […]
Pro-choice articles euphemizing “heartbeat.”
/0 Comments/in Biology, Debunking /by Monica SnyderDefinitions of “heartbeat.” To my knowledge there’s no unifying authoritative definition of “heartbeat.” Embryology textbooks do use the term. For example: “Blood flow begins during the fourth week, and heartbeats can be visualized by Doppler ultrasonography.” – The Developing Human, Moore et al, 10th Edition (2013) “The heartbeat is initiated around the twenty-first day, and […]
When we say “heartbeat” we don’t mean “fetal pole cardiac activity.” We mean “heartbeat.”
/0 Comments/in Biology, Debunking /by Monica SnyderRecently a FB follower shared this post to our page: (Click to enlarge) The text reads, in part: This is what an embryo at 6 weeks looks like. There is no real heart beat because it’s heart isn’t nearly complete – they’re heart “vibrations” (vibrations are caused my cellular activity where the heart WILL be. […]
Baby Chris is Ten Weeks Old
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[This is part 11 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.] Baby Chris has put on some serious weight this week: a whopping 77% increase, according to the Endowment for Human Development. He or she now weighs about half an ounce and is the […]
Making Sense of Arizona’s Late-Term Abortion Statistics
/0 Comments/in Later Abortion, Research /by Kara Balogova[Update December 2022: Here is a video summary of this blog post. Scroll past the video to see a written version of the same concepts.] Above: a 28-week-old baby I don’t know about you, but I often use the data brought to my attention by the SPL blog post “More evidence that most late-term […]
Recap: Senate Symposium on Sex Trafficking
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life co-leader Terrisa Bukovinac here. Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a symposium at the United States Senate entitled “Trafficking and Women’s and Children’s Health.” The event brought survivors of sex trafficking together with doctors and legal experts to discuss the serious and pervasive concerns of sex trafficking in America and how […]