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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 […]
I Am Equal Without Abortion
/125 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Roni Cairns is part of our paid blogging program. An earlier version of this piece appeared on her personal blog.] Have you ever been told that a woman will lose all of her rights and become a second-class person, inferior, or subhuman if she cannot obtain a legal abortion? I have, […]
Introducing the Equal Rights Institute
/4 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderWhen you think of “the pro-life movement,” who do you picture? Do you think of a massive crowd with homemade picket signs shuffling through Washington DC in the snow (or San Francisco in the sun)? Do you imagine an elderly lady standing outside an abortion clinic handing out pregnancy resource pamphlets? Maybe the phrase “pro-life […]
Florida abortion law enters 21st century
/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardFrom Reuters (a short article, so here it is in its entirety): Florida Governor Rick Scott signed legislation on Friday barring late-term abortions in cases where doctors determine an unborn child could survive outside the womb, in a move critics say further chips away at abortion rights. The measure is among new limits on abortion […]
Court cites Roe v. Wade in support of compelled C-section
/64 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Guest blogger Roni Cairns contributed to today’s piece.] One argument in favor of Roe v. Wade, and for the general argument that bodily autonomy trumps the right to life, is that pro-life logic would dictate in favor of forced cesarean sections. Many pro-lifers would of course disagree. It’s true that in some scenarios a C-section […]
The Key to Avoiding Red Herrings
/22 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] I’m currently reading through a book by John S. Feinberg on modernism and postmodernism*, and he made a claim in his book that I thought would be excellent to share. It’s also a point that I’ve been raising in my presentations on […]
“People of Choice” website highlights the bad, the worse, and the ugly
/21 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardRecently, Life Dynamics launched a new website called People of Choice. Inspired by People of Wal-Mart, it highlights abortion advocates displaying hatred of children, ignorance of human anatomy, extreme selfishness, racism, and other unflattering traits. “Abortion is not murder. it is a medical procedure to remove unnecessary piece of meat. what if it is born […]
Birth isn’t the beginning of life, so let’s stop talking like it is
/51 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest blog post by Alexa Gospodinoff is part of our paid blogging program.] I think most pro-lifers would agree that if one were to examine our current scientific knowledge of the human life cycle from an unbiased perspective, without any cultural baggage, one would immediately see that a human life biologically begins at fertilization […]
Tomorrow: response to the #AbortStigma tweetfest
/27 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Editor’s Note: If you have had an abortion and are dealing with the psychological aftermath, please visit AbortionChangesYou.com for free, non-judgmental peer support through this difficult time. If you are experiencing the desire to harm yourself, skip the website and call 911 or 1-800-SUICIDE immediately.] Tomorrow, abortion advocates plan to flood twitter with an #AbortStigma […]