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TODAY: March for Life!
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe weather is going to be atrocious, but we’re no fair-weather activists. You can still plan on us to be at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. this morning! The abortion industry doesn’t take the day off when it’s cold. Neither will we. The original plan was to meet in front of the Museum of […]
A Response to the Spectrum Argument
/35 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxOn Patheos, pro-choice blogger Bob Seidensticker has formulated an argument for abortion that he calls the “Spectrum Argument” for abortion. First, I’d just like to take a moment to say that it’s refreshing to find a pro-choice blogger who actually attempts to make a logical argument for his position, rather than the rhetoric, demonizing of […]
Child Support
/347 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderWhen arguing about abortion, I’ve seen a lot of people claim “sex isn’t a contract.” Other variations of this idea include: · Consent to A doesn’t mean consent to B (that is, consent to sex doesn’t mean consent to reproduction).· You clearly don’t consent to reproduce if you use birth control.· Sex is not a […]
A letter from our president
/11 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22nd is a somber occasion. It reminds us of the millions of innocent lives that have been lost to abortion in the United States. It is also a very hectic time for many pro-life advocates, myself included. And yet this is, without question, my favorite time of […]
Supreme Court Abdicates Responsibility in Late-Term Abortion Case
/3 Comments/in Later Abortion /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Roger McCormack is part of our paid blogging program.] The tragedy that is late-term abortion recently received the approbation of the U.S. Supreme Court. A case pertaining to Arizona legislation banning abortion at 20 weeks, which the Ninth Circuit subsequently struck down as unconstitutional in Isaacson v. Horne, illustrates the increasingly […]
Interview with SPL’s West Coast Walk for Life Speaker
/0 Comments/in Speeches, Discussions, Presentations, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardOn January 4th, Bay Area Catholic radio host Ed Horodko interviewed SPL’s Monica Snyder, who will be speaking at the West Coast Walk for Life on January 25. Click this link and fast forward to around the 14 minute mark to hear the segment. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve met a lot of people who I would […]
Planned Parenthood: Committing an Abortion is Like Swimming
/4 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Sarah Terzo[Today’s guest post by Sarah Terzo of ClinicQuotes.com is part of our paid blogging program.] During my research on Planned Parenthood I stumbled across a quote from a Planned Parenthood clinic director that I’d like to share. It is from an old article (Sandra G. Boodman, “The Dearth of Abortion Doctors; Stigma, Low Pay and […]
FGM: Safe, Legal, and Rare?
/23 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rachel Enders is part of our paid blogging program.] Safe, legal, and rare. We’ve all heard this phrase at one time or another regarding abortion. The debate in popular culture changes, however, when you apply this phrase to female genital cutting, also known as female genital mutilation, female circumcision, or FGM. […]
Obvious Common Ground
/17 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardA Secular Pro-Life member recently brought 31 States to my attention. This documentary film, which is still in production, tells the stories of courageous women who refused to abort their children who were conceived in rape—only to learn that the laws of their states effectively punished them for choosing life: If you can’t watch the video, […]
The Argument from Identity
/321 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxI have previously explained two good arguments for the pro-life position, the Substance View and the Future of Value arguments. I would like to share with you a third. It’s an argument that Alexander Pruss has termed an identity-based argument. Stephen Napier defends a similar argument which he has termed the Unity argument, but my exposition of this argument […]