[This information is available in the form of a Twitter thread here.] Research finds that women seeking abortion believe providers should offer them the option to view the ultrasound. But providers don’t always do so, and abortion advocacy groups (Planned Parenthood Action, NARAL, ACOG) oppose measures requiring providers to do so. Please note I’m not […]
Photo Credit Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash Recently, the states of South Carolina and Indiana upheld their laws restricting abortions after months of legal challenges. In both cases, the challenge to their constitutionality was dismissed. South Carolina’s Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (S.474) was passed in late May of 2023, but Planned […]
Secular Pro-Life is heartbroken that peaceful pro-life advocates, including pro-life atheist Herb Geraghty, have been convicted under the FACE Act. The D.C. jury’s guilty verdict, announced yesterday afternoon, exposes the defendants to up to eleven years in federal prison. The judge excluded key evidence from the trial. The jury’s verdict was not fully informed. Secular […]
You may already be aware of the federal prosecution of several members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the trial that began in Washington D.C. this month. I’m a long-time Secular Pro-Life supporter who values well thought out exchanges backed by evidence over more aggressive […]
Photo Credit danilo.alvesd on Unsplash Earlier in 2023, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, other pro-life medical organizations, and individual pro-life physicians filed a federal district court in Dallas, against the FDA concerning their regulations on dispensing mifepristone. This drug is the first of two used in the abortion pill sequence, blocking the pregnancy hormone progesterone […]
On August 8, Ohio will hold a special election for Issue 1. Today is the deadline to register to vote in that special election. This is the official link to register to vote. Although Issue 1 does not directly concern abortion, it could have a significant impact in the November election, when a pro-abortion measure […]
The BBC published “Mother jailed for taking abortion pills after legal limit,” neglecting to mention in the title just how far past the legal limit the mother was. In the UK it’s legal to induce an abortion at home via pills up to 10 weeks gestation, get an elective abortion in a clinic up to […]
[Today’s guest article is by attorney and pro-life atheist Patrick Copeland.] Following the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a growing number of abortion supporters have been searching for another way to argue the constitutionality of protecting abortion as a fundamental right. One popular argument is that restrictions on abortion violate the […]
Today at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, SPL Executive Director Monica Snyder is giving her presentation “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths.” Below are all the sources she used for today’s version of the presentation. Myth #1: Biologically, we don’t know when human life begins. Articles claiming the myth Biology and embryology textbooks and relevant quotes International […]
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