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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 […]
Upcoming Movie Challenges Pro-Abortion Narrative on Pregnancy Centers
/6 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rebecca Downs is part of our paid blogging program.] One of my favorite parts of going to the movies is the trailers. I didn’t know what I was in for when I saw a trailer for Gimme Shelter. From the beginning, it looks intense. A nearly unrecognizable Vanessa Hudgens narrates how […]
Abortion as a Symptom of Misogyny in the Developing World
/36 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Roger McCormack is part of our paid blogging program.] The developing world, often a bastion of religious dogma and radical fundamentalism, reveals a fascinating omission of free inquiry among abortion rights supporters. Amartya Sen, a famed Indian economist, in relation to the recent outrage over endemic rape in India, wrote: One […]
The Pro-Life Generation
/2 Comments/in Pro-Life Demographics, Research /by Kelsey HazzardA Secular Pro-Life member recently asked for the source of the claim that young Americans are more pro-life than their older counterparts (which has earned us the moniker “the pro-life generation”). The claim is not based on one particular survey, but on a series of polls over several years. For everyone’s convenience, this blog post […]
Moderate rhetoric means greater influence
/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Roger McCormack is part of our paid blogging program.] Those who defend the rights of the unborn are habitually caricatured as zealous, religious nuts, and/or gross chauvinists with deep-seated issues regarding their mothers, much to the chagrin of thoughtful defenders of the vulnerable. A modest step for the pro-life movement might […]