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Human Rights Day
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardToday is International Human Rights Day, and pro-life advocates across the globe are marking the occasion in various ways. Two LifeNews articles on human rights are worth your attention. First, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and other coalition groups fighting abortion in China have sent a letter to President Xi Jinping, imploring him to bring […]
Pro-lifers should support free day care in high schools
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardLike many D.C.-area commuters, I always grab a free copy of the Washington Examiner to read on the metro. Today’s cover story: For teen parents, day care free at area high schools. According to the article, seven area schools provide the service, which supporters say help prevent teen parents from becoming dropouts. Of course, the […]
Updates on RU-486
/2 Comments/in Abortion pills /by Monica SnyderVia RH Reality Check: In October a divided panel of Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges upheld the state’s law restricting the use of RU-486 as a constitutional restriction to a woman’s right to access abortion. Late last week the full Sixth Circuit denied Planned Parenthood’s request to overturn that October ruling, leaving in place […]
Philosophy in the abortion issue: part two
/41 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox[Today’s post is part of a series by SPL member Clinton Wilcox. Read part one here.] Now that we’ve learned what goes into making an argument, let’s talk about how to respond to an argument. First, a bit about why philosophy is necessary. Philosophy is all around us. Why are you an Atheist/Christian/Buddhist/etc.? That can […]
Let us be your voice in 2013
/3 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardHere we are in the final month of 2012– and what a year this has been! Secular Pro-Life reached out to the next generation, speaking to pro-life student organizations at the University of San Francisco and UNC-Chapel Hill, the atheist and agnostic student organization at the University of Virginia, and young activists from across the […]
Your adoption stories
/4 Comments/in Adoption & Foster Care, Uncategorized, We Asked You Answered /by Kelsey HazzardNational Adoption Month is about to come to a close. Earlier in November, we asked SPL members how adoption had touched their lives. Here’s what you had to say: “I gave my oldest child up in an open adoption. She’s now almost 14 and is a happy, healthy young woman. We just visited with her […]
Do human beings begin at fertilization?
/3 Comments/in Biology /by Monica SnyderHydatidiform moles occur when an egg without a nucleus gets fertilized; this fertilized egg does not have the genetic code of a human organism and will never develop into an infant. Some argue, then, that fertilization isn’t a defining moment and that it’s incorrect to say fertilized eggs are human beings. The Life Training Institute wrote […]
Does the pro-life cause have the wrong allies?
/3 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s post is by Robert Christian, a progressive Catholic. It is a response to last week’s “Election Reflection” blog post. It was originally posted at Millennial and is reprinted with permission.] A recent blog post at Secular Pro-Life addresses the question of whether or not the pro-life movement has the wrong allies. It does. The […]
Movie review: Life Happens
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard“It’s not a Christian or a Jewish or a Muslim or a Buddhist issue… it’s common sense.” So says Gary Graham in the trailer (above) for Life Happens, a documentary focused on people who were at risk for abortion. The film’s description promises that director Ash Greyson “skillfully replaces rhetoric and religion with hope and heart.” […]
Philosophy in the abortion issue: part one
/30 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox[Today’s post is by SPL member Clinton Wilcox.] Science can be a wonderful tool in the pro-life advocate’s arsenal. [1] However, science can’t dictate morality, it can only inform morality. Science can tell us that something we are harming or killing is human; science can’t tell us that it’s wrong to kill that human. So […]