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Rep. Ryan announces tax dollars will be diverted from Planned Parenthood to other providers
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardYesterday, 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 […]
Pro-Life Women’s Conference announces 2017 theme; registration now open
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe 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 […]
We’ve never tried
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardI 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. […]
A response to Shawna Kay Rodenberg
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardShortly 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 […]
2016 Year in Review
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Year In Review /by Kelsey HazzardHoo 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 […]
Top Ten Articles of 2016
/0 Comments/in Top SPL Articles, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe 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 […]
The Top Ten Graphics of 2016
/0 Comments/in Top SPL Graphics, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardDrum 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 […]
Bad Abortion-Choice Science
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton WilcoxOne of the most frustrating assertions from abortion-choice advocates are that pro-life advocates are “anti-science” or “don’t understand science,” which is why they are pro-life. The problem, apart from the fact that science is decidedly on the side of the pro-life advocate, is that abortion-choice arguments usually incorporate bad science. For a recent example, see […]
A survey of infanticide after attemped abortion
/0 Comments/in Research, Uncategorized /by Sarah Terzo[Today’s guest post by Sarah Terzo is part of our paid blogging program.] In June 2015, the European Centre for Law and Justice released a report that compiled first-hand accounts of babies born alive after abortions who were then killed by doctors. The report, which can be found in its entirety here, has a number […]
Our plans for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardJanuary 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 […]