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Teaser
/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard has written a book! Cultivating Weeds is the fictional story of an abortion doctor who secretly becomes pro-life and is recruited to help conduct a controversial, revolutionary medical study. Unlike most pro-life fiction, Cultivating Weeds takes a non-religious approach. Some of its language may be inappropriate for younger readers. But […]
Lisa Harris, Abortion Provider
/9 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderThe Weekly Standard describes former abortion providers who have converted to the pro-life cause. I found this passage particularly compelling: In 2008, however, abortionist Lisa Harris endeavored to begin “breaking the silence” in the pages of the journal Reproductive Health Matters. When she herself was 18 weeks pregnant, Dr. Harris performed a D&E abortion on an […]
Philosophy in the abortion issue: part three
/14 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox[Today’s post is the third and final article in a series on abortion and philosophy by SPL member Clinton Wilcox. Part one is here and part two is here.] Now we’ve seen what goes into an argument, and how to possibly respond to an argument. We’ve also seen some arguments that commit logical fallacies, that […]
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 […]