Via Charlotte Lozier Institute; graphics for other states available on their facebook page A few weeks ago, we reported that the House of Representatives was taking up a reconciliation bill that would redirect Planned Parenthood funding to more deserving providers. Previous efforts to accomplish this were not reconciliation bills, and were filibustered in the Senate. […]
Screenshot from an undercover investigation on abortion centers’ failure to report child rape The Center for Medical Progress undercover videos make one thing abundantly clear: abortionists commonly preserve the remains of abortion victims. Whether you believe this practice has been conducted legally or illegally, there’s no question that it happens regularly. The abortion lobby would […]
Graphic via Online for Life [Today’s guest post by B. T. S. Agnomen is part of our paid blogging program.] Liberty and equality: our democratic republic was founded on these twin principles. Yet even before and ever since, individuals have posed this perennial question: “Are liberty and equality consistent one with the other, or are they […]
Baruch Brody, in an essay titled “Against an Absolute Right to Abortion”, [1] defends what he calls the brain, heart, and lung theory of death, adapted from a theory put forth by ethicist Paul Ramsey. Brody is, himself, pro-life, but only after the first trimester. The view he supports essentially states in order to determine […]
Our friends at the Life Matters Journal have released their latest issue, which you can read online for free here. On abortion, this issue includes commentary from frequent SPL contributors Acyutananda (“What’s in it for the Born?”) and Clinton Wilcox (“Our Identity Remains the Same Throughout Our Entire Life”). There is also a reprint of […]
This past June, Secular Pro-Life launched Prevent Preterm, a campaign to educate future parents about three preventable causes of premature birth. Two, tobacco use and lack of prenatal care, are uncontroversial. The third is a history of abortion. The evidence that abortion is a risk factor for premature birth in subsequent pregnancies is overwhelming. Over […]
Way to be moral agents! Just, you know, try not to kill anybody. It’s a claim that’s cropped up before, but most recently in a leaked video from the National Abortion Federation conference: the claim that pro-lifers do not believe women are moral agents. That’s just silly. Of course women are moral agents. Moral agency […]
An Australian woman who is 26 weeks pregnant and believes that an abortion will ease her suicidal feelings will not receive an abortion from Royal Women’s Hospital. Doctors there are unwilling to kill a viable, healthy baby. The Age reports: In 2008, the procedure was decriminalised, so that women could have one up to 24 […]
Pop quiz: If a complete stranger came up to your family in public and asked your child about yeast infections, and then started screaming “Yeast infections!” repeatedly until everyone left the vicinity, what would you think of that person? (A) That person needs help. (B) That person is brave. The Slate clickbait headline: Brave Portland […]
Late last year, Oklahoma police arrested abortionist Nareshkumar “Naresh” Patel after he sold abortion pills to undercover officers who were not pregnant. He was charged with fraud. As we pointed out at the time, Patel’s scam wasn’t original. Back in 1978, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found that abortion businesses regularly padded their bottom line by selling […]
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