On this World Down Syndrome Day, we are going to focus on one of the most important legal battles ever led when it comes to the dignity of persons with Down syndrome. Heidi Crowter is a woman with Down syndrome who has been fighting for years to remove the section from the UK’s abortion law […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “A Primer on Fetal Personhood and Consciousness” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please contact us.] Esta publicación fue escrita originalmente por Audrey Wagner. En el debate sobre el aborto, algunos partidarios del aborto legal niegan que el feto sea una persona, […]
Beth Fox, President of Rehumanize International, speaks at the Rehumanize Meet Up during the 2023 March For Life. [See the transcription below the video. Special thanks to volunteer Milena Popp for her transcription work. If you’d like to volunteer as a standby transcriber or translator for SPL, please fill out our volunteer survey.] Herb: …. she is responsible […]
[Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] In the abortion debate, some pro-choice advocates deny that the fetus is a person, a person being defined as a human meriting moral consideration and legal protections. What do humans need to qualify as persons? There are a variety of theories, but at least one popular pro-choice response […]
Our friends at Rehumanize International organize consistently amazing conferences. Rehumanize is a Consistent Life Ethic (CLE) group, which means their work encompasses a wide range of social ills. That includes abortion, along with threats to older humans like the death penalty and sex trafficking. Their conferences present a wonderful opportunity for activists in different spheres to come […]
Today’s guest post is by Kristina Artuković. Kristina has masters degrees in philosophy and philology. She is also mother to a child with Down syndrome. Brief background: Down syndrome is a condition caused by an extra copy of our 21st chromosome. An extra copy of a chromosome is called a trisomy, which is why Down […]
Today is World Down Syndrome Day! Did you know? A non-antagonizing piece of information. A picture of a cute kid with Down syndrome. A graphic with socks. Fuzzy inclusive feelings. Too bad it’s not always like that. During my pregnancy with Toma, who happens to have Down syndrome, my husband and I were repeatedly harassed […]
We have added three new collections to the SPL website. If you’d like to contribute to any of these, please contact us here. 1. Our children’s heartbeats – While the pro-choice side tries desperately to claim embryos don’t have hearts, we collect stories from parents who became pro-life when they first heard their beloved children’s prenatal heartbeats. 2. Parents […]
A recent Marist poll took a nuanced look at Americans’ views of abortion. The poll is interesting because it digs further into people’s stances than most polls do. Worth noting: 17% of people who call themselves “pro-life” think abortion should be legal either during the first three months of pregnancy, first six months of pregnancy, […]
The author and her family. Kaylen Before Kaylen, my husband Darrin and I were happy to be average—to not stick out in a good or bad way. Darrin worked as a mental health clinician in a prison; I had quit teaching after our second child and was running an in-home daycare. Our two sons […]
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