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A Response to “Conscious Abortion” Journal Article
/1 Comment/in Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Personhood, Uncategorized /by Petra WallenmeyerToday’s guest article is by Petra Wallenmeyer, who is the Content Director at Human Defense Initiative. Introduction A rather interesting journal publication was brought to my attention a few weeks ago. The article is called “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue” and was published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology […]
We Asked, You Answered: Your Earliest Memory About Abortion
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, We Asked You Answered /by Kelsey HazzardWe asked our Twitter followers: “What is your earliest memory on the topic of abortion?” Here are a few of our favorite replies, lightly edited for clarity. Colette M.: Being in fifth grade (1975) and learning in a class that some some women terminated their pregnancies. I understood exactly what that meant immediately and I […]
“We Make History”: Remarks at the Maryland March for Life
/0 Comments/in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Pro-Life Demographics, Religion, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardPro-life atheist Terrisa Bukovinac, who is the vice president of Secular Pro-Life and executive director of PAAU: Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, recently spoke at the Maryland March for Life. Video is available on our YouTube channel, and her remarks are transcribed below. Emcee: I said it before, we need every voice in this fight, every people […]
Pro-Life Art Contest Accepting Submissions
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardOur friends at Rehumanize International want you to get creative for human rights! Their annual Create | Encounter art extravaganza is open until February 19. Rehumanize International is a consistent life ethic (CLE) organization, promoting respect for human life at all ages. Create | Encounter is for pieces that “explore subjects of aggressive violence against […]
Justice Breyer Announces Retirement. Now What?
/1 Comment/in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Pro-Life Demographics, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardLast week, Justice Stephen Breyer (pictured) announced that he will retire from the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Breyer took the bench in 1994. He has consistently opposed the right to life in the womb — and even halfway outside of it, as the author of the Stenberg v. Carhart opinion supporting partial-birth […]
Pro-Life Atheist to Headline Maryland March for Life on Thursday
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardTerrisa Bukovinac, a left-leaning atheist with leadership roles in several pro-life organizations, will give the keynote speech at the Maryland March for Life. The event takes place this Thursday, February 3, at Lawyers Hall in Annapolis at 5:00 p.m. Terrisa began her anti-abortion activist journey with Secular Pro-Life. She is a long-time SPL volunteer and […]
The Shared Rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and Anti-Abortionists
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardWhen it comes to the slogan “Black Lives Matter,” many people misinterpret it to mean that only Black lives matter. They wrongly interpret the BLM movement as excluding or ignoring the injustices faced by any and all other demographics. They respond (some maliciously, but many in mere ignorance), “All lives matter.” In saying this, they […]
2022 March for Life Recap: many paths leading to the same place.
/0 Comments/in Pro-Life Demographics /by Monica SnyderThe March for Life January 21, 2022 – This was my first time attending the DC March for Life. Until recently I lived in Northern California, so I had always attended the San Francisco Walk for Life instead. The DC March was, first and foremost, much colder, wow. It was also much larger! To be […]
New peer-reviewed article: Fetal Pain in the First Trimester
/0 Comments/in Biology, Later Abortion, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderOn December 6, 2021, The Linacre Quarterly published Dr. Bridget Thill’s dissertation “Fetal Pain in the First Trimester.” The article is written for a medical audience, with over 100 references to research in medical journals published from 1936 through 2021. If you can read the entire article, do, but for those who aren’t able to, […]
The phrase “spontaneous abortion” is not pro-choice propaganda.
/0 Comments/in Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder“Spontaneous abortion” is the medical term for a miscarriage. Many people have expressed confusion and hurt regarding this phrase, believing that it’s trying to equivocate between a miscarriage and an elective abortion or that it’s suggesting a woman gets an abortion casually. As someone who has had two miscarriages, I understand the gravity and sensitivity […]