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NRLC convention recap
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardLove Kelsey Hazzard! Follow @secularprolife. They do amazing work. #nrlc2016 pic.twitter.com/z7ah8q549V — Andrew Bair (@ProLifePolitics) July 9, 2016 Your president, Kelsey Hazzard, here. On Saturday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) convention in northern Virginia. The convention was actually three days long, but I only made it […]
Tomorrow: SPL president at NRLC convention
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardTomorrow at 10:45 a.m., Secular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard will address attendees of the National Right to Life convention in northern Virginia. Her topic is “Making the Pro-Life Argument from the Secular Perspective.” You can get the full convention schedule here. Hope to see you there!
A health care provider’s take on the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post is by Clare Farrell.] I have been a health care provider for over 30 years, first as a registered nurse and for the last 15 years, as a nurse practitioner. For most of my nursing career, I worked in either a hospital based operating room setting or an ambulatory surgical setting. Both […]
The Use and Abuse of Rhetoric
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton WilcoxMuch has been written on rhetoric. Rhetoric is essentially the art of effective or persuasive conversation, using certain language techniques to make your position believable to an audience. To use rhetoric, you use figures of speech and compositional techniques to make believe what you are saying, even if your arguments are devoid of any substance. […]
Should pro-lifers be patriots?
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardIn reaction to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that states cannot apply ambulatory surgical standards to abortion businesses or require abortionists to hold admitting privileges, a pro-life friend wrote: Ugh. It often feels like no matter how much progress we make the douchebag government will always find a way to undo it all and make it […]
Video: Pro-Life Women’s Conference presentation
/0 Comments/in Speeches, Discussions, Presentations, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard spoke to a packed room at the Pro-Life Women’s Conference in Dallas last weekend. Video is below. We hope you can catch us live next time! Kelsey will speak at the National Right to Life convention on July 8 in northern Virginia; details here.
The Pro-Life Women’s Conference: Our Seneca Falls
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardWe could all use some words of hope and encouragement after yesterday’s tragic Supreme Court ruling. I’m probably not the person to give them. We love to compare the right-to-life struggle to earlier causes like women’s suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but we shy away from seeing that comparison through and concluding that victory […]
The Pro-Life Women’s Conference begins tonight!
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardWe are so excited to gather in Dallas with female pro-life leaders from across the country. If you’re attending, we’d love to see you! SPL president Kelsey Hazzard will present tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., and our exhibit booth will be open for the duration of the conference. Look for our tall bright blue banner; you […]
Bodily Autonomy and Medical Ethics in the Abortion Debate
/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Todd Pettigrew is part of our paid blogging program.] On those rare occasions that I tell my friends that I have a pro-life stance on abortion, their reaction is typically surprise followed by a quick objection along the lines of “Well, if it’s her body…” and then they seem to think […]
Tonight: webcast recap of pro-life leaders’ meeting with Trump
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardKristan Hawkins Today in New York City, Donald Trump will meet with leaders from select pro-life organizations, among them Students for Life of America (SFLA). SFLA president Kristan Hawkins has this to say: I know many feel conflicted (myself included) right now about the upcoming election, but we all agree that this November could change […]