The 2024 primary election will be here before you know it, and the race is already heating up. We asked our followers on social media: “If you could pose one question about abortion to a presidential candidate, what would you ask?” Here are a few of the top responses (with minor edits for clarity). Mx. […]
Christine Henneberg’s memoir, Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother, reveals a great deal about the abortion industry. Background on Henneberg I’ve previously covered how Henneberg admits to doing a sex selective abortion on a woman who wanted a girl, and was aborting because she believed her baby to be a boy. In this case, […]
Monica Snyder, the Executive Director of Secular Pro-Life, recently appeared on the Spillover podcast, hosted by Alex Clark. Watch the video or read the transcript below. Many thanks to our volunteer transcriber, Anna Rawerts. Want to join her? Learn more about becoming a Secular Pro-Life volunteer. Alex: I love having guests on the show to […]
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 […]
My brother Neil (also an atheist) has spent most of his adulthood in secular, left-leaning cities on the West coast with in-person social circles which are almost entirely pro-choice. Years ago, while sitting around the living room with his three college roommates, Neil started talking about reasons he opposes abortion. One roommate, Shawn, adamantly disagreed, […]
I was recently reading Forever connected: the lifelong biological consequences of fetomaternal and maternofetal microchimerism (published in Clinical Chemistry, February 2021). This post contains my notes on the paper. [Read similar information in non-technical language in the Smithsonian article “The New Science of Motherhood“] The lifelong consequences of the exchange of cells between a mother […]
We asked our followers on social media: “Should pro-life and pro-choice people be friends? Why or why not?” Here are a few of the top responses. Ruth C.: “Pro-lifers should be friends with anyone. We cannot convince others that they’ve been lied to if we don’t have relationship with them.” Greg M.: “Absolutely! My friends […]
Secular Pro-Life founder and president Kelsey Hazzard here. I’ve occasionally written about my family life, and it’s a big week on that front, so I hope you’ll indulge me. As I write this, I am a foster parent of four wonderful teenagers. By the time you read this, 17-year-old “D,” who has been my foster […]
This post is specifically about debating online primarily with strangers or casual acquaintances. Strategies can be very different for in-person discussions and/or conversations with close friends. Yes, debating online can be worthwhile. Secular Pro-Life exists because of online debates. Around 2007, I joined an abortion discussion board on Facebook and began arguing about abortion almost […]
Let Them Live: How Saving One Life From Abortion Sparked a Movement, by Nathan & Emily Berning with John Greco, is available for pre-order with a September 1 release. I received an advance copy because I am a longtime supporter of the Bernings’ pro-life organization, also called Let Them Live. When the Guttmacher Institute surveyed […]
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