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No, pro-choice women aren’t unfit mothers
/15 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardRecently, in a divorce and custody case in New York, a wife argued that she was under great stress caused by her soon-to-be-ex-husband. In cross-examination, the husband’s attorney asked whether some of that stress might instead have been caused by a recent abortion. I happen to be an attorney, and while this line of questioning […]
A Brief History of Pro-Life Medicine
/13 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Sarah Terzo[Today’s post by Sarah Terzo is part of our paid blogging program. Sarah is a pro-life atheist, a frequent contributor to Live Action News, and the force behind ClinicQuotes.com.] Recently, Live Action ran two articles about the stigma that abortion providers face from other doctors in the medical profession. In one article, late-term abortionist Susan […]
The Value of Asking Questions
/11 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton WilcoxI would like to write a follow-up to my recent article about an event that happened while I was at College of the Sequoias for a pro-life outreach, which was picked up at LifeNews. So I wanted to take a moment to explain exactly why I believe that asking questions is so important to having good discussion. The […]
Big announcement!
/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardLast year’s West Coast Walk for Life featured a lot of this: …and this: The organizers of the Walk took note of this unproductive exchange, and they’re doing something about it. I am thrilled to announce that the 2014 West Coast Walk for Life speaking lineup includes Secular Pro-Life’s very own Monica Snyder! Monica […]
The World We Live In
/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Alycia Hartley is part of our paid blogging program.] Two things have happened to me in the past few weeks that may seem unrelated, but have become connected for me. One is a video that has gone viral on YouTube; as of my writing, it has over 13 million views. It […]
Delusional for Davis: What Texas Abortion Supporters Have Wrong
/32 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardWendy Davis, the Texas politician best known for wearing pink shoes while fighting for the right to kill five-month-old fetuses, is expected to run for governor of Texas. Abortion advocate and Democratic consultant Jason Stanford has an opinion column in Politico that desperately seeks to convince people that the Davis campaign is not doomed: In […]
33 Years of Slaughter in China
/3 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThis week marked a tragic anniversary: 33 years of the one-child policy in China. This barbaric policy has harmed hundreds of millions of people. Abortion is a major component of the policy, whether it is “chosen” by women who know that they will only have one shot at motherhood, or physically enforced by government goons. […]
Seeking Intern & Volunteers
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSeveral opportunities for involvement in the secular pro-life movement have come up recently. You don’t even need to leave the comfort of your home! First up: that rarest of birds, a paid pro-life internship! Secular Pro-Life seeks an intern to update the database for AbortionSafety.com, which warns abortion-vulnerable women about medical malpractice lawsuits and health […]
A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part V
/33 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxI have spent four parts in this series responding to Warren’s argument that the unborn cannot be considered persons. Warren wrote her essay in 1973 in a publication called The Monist, but in 1982 she re-published the essay with an added postscript. One of the objections she was receiving to her paper is that it would also justify infanticide as […]
Is “unbiased abortion counseling” a unicorn?
/7 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardYesterday, an article by SPL member Sarah Terzo appeared on Live Action News, entitled “Abortion clinic counseling: rhetoric vs. reality.” In it, she describes insider accounts of supposedly “non-directive” counseling at abortion facilities that is anything but. The “counselors” emphasize the negative aspects of parenthood, evade questions about prenatal development, and make their sale. This […]