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The Life Equation, Part IV
/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is the final installment of a four-part series. Click here for part 1, here for part 2, and here for part 3.] We come to the last part of the life equation: women’s deaths from illegal abortion. I think this is a three part question: Are their deaths avoidable? If […]
The Life Equation, Part III
/11 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is part 3 of a four-part series. Click here for part 1 and here for part 2.] [Editor’s note: This post was written prior to the announcement of the Hobby Lobby decision. Wherever you come down on that decision, it’s worth mentioning that even the Hobby Lobby plaintiffs, who are […]
The Life Equation, Part II
/9 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is part 2 of a 4-part series. Click here for part 1.] The National Abortion Federation argues that in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade, there were as many as 1.2 million abortions per year—the same number as today. Is that correct? Most pro-lifers say no; in 1973, the […]
The Life Equation, Part I
/35 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s post is part one in a 4-part series by Nick Reynosa. Parts 2-4 will run tomorrow through Friday.] In a 2013 article by former pro-lifer turned feminist blogger Libby Anne, she discusses the story of her conversion to the pro-choice movement. In her piece she highlights a contention pro-lifers hear all too often: that […]
Meet the Wisconsin abortionists who can’t imagine why they’ve been denied hospital privileges
/3 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rebecca Downs is part of our paid blogging program.] Abortionist Dennis Dean Christensen, formerly of Illinois, now practices in Milwaukee. But the days of his business may be numbered: three area hospitals have denied him admitting privileges due to his extensive history of unsafe practices and bizarre behavior. Christensen has responded […]
July 28: Speaking Engagement at LA Pro-Life Youth Camp
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSPL president Kelsey Hazzard here. When I was in high school, I was uselessly pro-life. I didn’t do anything about it outside of the occasional debate with friends. It wasn’t until college that I really got involved. Not so for the high schoolers I will address on July 28. They’re part of Camp Joshua, a […]
Ableism Kills, Inside and Outside the Womb
/97 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rebecca Stapleford is part of our paid blogging program. Rebecca has three sisters, two of whom are also disabled. One of her significantly disabled sisters will eventually need a kidney transplant.] Many of those involved in the pro-life movement are aware of the incredibly high abortion statistics for those prenatally diagnosed […]
Language of Life T-shirt Design Contest
/24 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardHuman life does not begin at birth. Hopefully we can all agree on that by now. But the English language hasn’t caught up to the science. We’ve written before about the problem with phrases like “born leader,” “a sucker born every minute,” etc. We decided it’s time to expand that conversation with the ultimate conversation-starter: […]
The Imago Dei, or “Why should secularists care about human life?”
/106 Comments/in Philosophy, Religion /by Monica Snyder[Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] I’ve had a few Christian pro-life friends of mine (kindly) tell me they don’t really understand how a secularist can defend the pro-life position. Sure, they get that we don’t need religion to understand fetal development, and we don’t need to believe in a god to recognize that […]
One Absurd Conclusion of the Pro-Choice Position
/79 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] One of the problems with the pro-choice position, aside from the fact that abortion unjustly kills an innocent child, is the fact that it places the will of the parents over the needs of the child, when in fact it should be […]