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Today’s News Items
/2 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardAmericans United for Life reports on a positive development in Iowa, where the state Board of Medicine has resolved to stop the practice of “Skype abortions” and require physical examinations. (The measure the Board adopted still has to be reviewed by the General Assembly.) Pro-life Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Butler recently went on the Today Show to discuss her […]
SPL Featured in Inaugural Issue of Pro-Life Magazine
/6 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardPro-Life Magazine is a free e-publication, available on your iPhone or iPad, featuring interviews with pro-life advocates on a wide range of topics. The very first issue just launched, and it includes an interview with yours truly, SPL president Kelsey Hazzard! Non-Apple-users can read it here. SPL’s appearance begins on page 47. The piece goes […]
Abortion: Everybody’s Doing It!
/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardBy now, you’ve all heard about Udonis Haslem and Faith Rein’s wedding announcement in the New York Times, which included the fact that they’d had an abortion many years ago. (The couple also has a surviving young son, Josiah.) Pro-choice-remember-no-one-is-pro-abortion media outlets like Think Progress are of course thrilled. Plenty of pro-life commentators have already written […]
Abortion: A Woman’s Right to Control Her Body?
/67 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Prayson Daniel is part of our paid blogging program.] Women’s rights clearly include their right to health and to make fully informed decisions regarding their bodies. Does a woman’s right to decide what she will and will not do with her body extend to cover actions affecting the fetus who may […]
Shoot a Photo, Join a Movement
/23 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life is working on a new project to increase awareness of the fact that there are over six million non-religious pro-lifers living in the United States. Don’t believe me? Let’s do the math. According to the Pew Research Center, 19.6% of American adults have no religious affiliation. That amounts to about 46 million people. […]
It’s the Equality, Stupid
/44 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Barry Garrett is part of our paid blogging program.] Marriage equality. Racial equality. Gender equality. Everywhere there’s equality. It’s hard to go about even one day in life without hearing a story in which one member (or class) of our species is accusing another member (or class) of our species of […]
A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part III
/1 Comment/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxIn part one of this series, I examined Warren’s definition of humanity, and in part two I examined her argument about what a person is and showed why the unborn certainly qualify. This article will be the third part of five, in which I’ll examine Warren’s claims about the right to life. 3. Fetal Development […]
On the Brain Requirement for Personhood
/19 Comments/in Personhood /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Timothy Hsiao is part of our paid blogging program.] Pro-choice philosophers have offered various laundry lists of criteria that all purport to list the properties relevant to being a person, i.e. an intrinsically valuable being worthy of moral concern and protection. One such proposal holds that the possession of a brain […]
Argument Against Regulating Abortion Facilities is Disingenuous
/12 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rachel Cox is part of our paid blogging program.] Whenever a legislator proposes safety regulations for abortion facilities, the abortion industry always plays the part of the victim to drum up sympathy and support for their cause. They often claim safety regulations are unnecessary because complications from abortion rarely arise. Abortion complications may […]
Single-Issue Skepticism
/7 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardRecently, a fellow pro-life atheist who is active in Secular Pro-Life shared this on facebook: Jillette is obviously not the only person to have this thought, but he expresses it quite well. The argument that we need religion to make us behave is a lousy argument. The problem is that many people throw this reasoning […]