[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 […]
Once a month or so, the Secular Pro-Life blog features a short interview with a pro-life atheist. (See the full series of interviews here.) Although Secular Pro-Life is not exclusively for atheists, historically atheists have played a key role in the organization. As atheists become more prominent in the pro-life movement generally, we’re excited for the opportunity […]
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 […]
Abortion activists have repeatedly claimed that abortion pills are safer than Tylenol. As far as I can tell, by that they mean that annually there are more ER visits related to Tylenol (acetaminophen toxicity) than to abortion pills. If more people each year are going to the ER because of Tylenol than because of abortion […]
This post is part of a summary series condensing the information available in Agency, Pregnancy and Persons: Essays in Defense of Human Life, by Colgrove, Blackshaw, and Rodger. Covered here are the points made by Katy Finley in Chapter 8. Image source “You aren’t allowed to be pro-life unless you adopt.” Charges of inconsistency are […]
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 […]
Secular Pro-Life recently interviewed Sheri Petruso, the Executive Director of Birthright St. Charles (a short drive from St. Louis, MO). Pregnancy resource centers like Birthright play a crucial role in abortion prevention, especially post-Dobbs. A transcript of the interview is below. We thank Sheri for her dedication and for sharing her insights with us. Tell […]
Our Executive Director, Monica Snyder, will speak at the Samaritan Summit in Nashville, TN on Wednesday, September 20. That’s just five weeks from today! As the name suggests, the Samaritan Summit is Christian; it is an annual gathering of staff and volunteers of faith-based pregnancy centers. This year’s theme is “She is More: Reaching the […]
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