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Why artificial wombs pose a challenge to pro-choice personhood arguments
/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Alex Hyun[Photo credit Patricia Prudente from Unsplash] Personhood and Artificial Womb Technology In 2017, artificial womb technology was successfully used to support lamb fetuses that had been transferred from their mothers, and there’s hope that this technology will soon be used on very premature human infants. This makes it important to think about the moral status […]
Embryos & metaphysical personhood: both biology & philosophy support the pro-life case.
/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Kristina ArtukovićPhoto credit NeONBRAND with Unsplash [Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] Today’s guest blog post is by Kristina Artuković Anyone who is in any way involved in the debate on prenatal justice knows that it usually involves tiring discussions about the meaning of terms like human, person, personhood or potentiality. More versed pro-choice advocates […]
An Open Letter to a Young Texan
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardDear Young Texan, I am not sure how to address you. I do not know your name. I do not know your gender. I do not even know, definitively, whether you will grow up in Texas. Many years will pass before you will be old enough to read this. But with a few clues, I […]
Why Women Didn’t Need ‘Roe’ to Get Ahead: An Interview With the Head of Secular Pro-Life
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardPro-life Catholic reporter Christine Rousselle recently interviewed Kelsey Hazzard (pictured), the president of Secular Pro-Life, for an article in the National Catholic Register about the upcoming Dobbs case at the Supreme Court. An excerpt from that article appears below. * * * This December, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the […]
Study: Women explain their abortions more in terms of religion and motherhood than autonomy.
/0 Comments/in Research, Uncategorized /by Sarah St. OngeThe pro-choice position has long focused on the role religious fervor plays in anti-abortion politics. Images of nuns marching with anti-abortion protestors are splashed across our front pages, and video clips of evangelical men with megaphones and Bibles protesting outside of clinics are ubiquitous online. It seems all but a forgone conclusion that an individual’s […]
Tomorrow at the Supreme Court: The Abortion-Related Case You Haven’t Heard About
/0 Comments/in Legislation, laws, & court cases /by Kelsey HazzardThe pro-life community is rightly excited about Dobbs, the 15-week abortion case which could finally bring American abortion law in line with scientific consensus (life in the womb plainly exists prior to viability), popular sovereignty (most Americans oppose abortion in the second and third trimesters), and international norms (the United States is one of only […]
Jayke and Makenna: An Adoption Story
/0 Comments/in Adoption & Foster Care, Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardAs told to Lisa Bast. She was unmarried, struggling with a heroin addiction, and already had two children who her parents were trying to help her raise. This baby would be her third in three years. She had no longing to be a mother again nor was her family supportive of her giving birth to […]
Announcing the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising
/0 Comments/in Pro-Life Demographics, Speeches, Discussions, Presentations /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life is led by three pro-life atheist women of varying political persuasions. Monica Snyder, the Executive Director, is a conservative; Kelsey Hazzard, the President, is a moderate; and Terrisa Bukovinac, the Vice President, is our resident dirty liberal hippie. In all seriousness, we love Terrisa, and we know that the pro-life cause cannot succeed […]
A Response to the Secular Pro-Choice Supreme Court Brief
/0 Comments/in Legislation, laws, & court cases, Religion /by Kelsey HazzardThree church-state separation groups — the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Center for Inquiry, and American Atheists — have filed an amicus brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case concerning Mississippi’s law to protect children in the womb 15 weeks and older. The brief’s central argument is a conspiracy theory: the signatories claim that the […]
September Recap!
/0 Comments/in SPL Emails, Uncategorized /by adminProjects Kelsey provided a concise legal explanation of the Texas Heartbeat Act and how the Supreme Court initially responded. Her commentary got her an invitation to the Rob Schmitt Tonight show (approximately 8m30s in) to discuss. The National Catholic Reporter interviewed Monica for their piece “Even some Catholic pro-lifers have concerns about Texas’ abortion law.” Interviewed […]