[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 […]
On May 22, 2023, In These Times published “What It’s Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs,” which profiles Lationna and her newborn son, Kinglsey. I came across the article because of this tweet: The tweet already had a whole lot of quote tweets, many of them saying terrible things about Lationna herself, what […]
[Today’s article is by pro-life atheist author Sarah Terzo. Read more by Sarah on her Substack.] Earlier this year, an anonymous author published a book called Memoir of a Divorced Man: Lost Innocence, Love, Sex, and Dating in the 1980s. The author’s story reveals a great deal about abortion, abortion coercion, and a man’s role […]
[Poem from a follower and supporter describing her thoughts and feelings decades ago as the father of her baby reacted to an unplanned pregnancy. Happily, he came around, and she has cherished being the mother of her now full-grown son.] I’m pregnant, I tell him Stunned silence Then,You know you don’t have to go through […]
The Little Souls at Rest foundation sat down with Secular Pro-Life’s Executive Director, Monica Snyder, to talk about their origins and mission. The following post is a summary of that conversation, put together by Sarah St. Onge. Despite intense and regular online campaigns to acknowledge the value of children miscarried in the first and early […]
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 […]
Secular Pro-Life exists because of volunteers. In 2009, SPL began as a work of heart for our founder (Kelsey), myself, and a select few others. Today our organization benefits from the knowledge, time, and talents of dozens of volunteers, which is why, despite our shoestring budget, our content is viewed over a million times per […]
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The way I see it, there are three keys to fetal pain. The IASP’s revised definition of pain, 4D ultrasound studies of fetal behavior, and The diminution of cortical necessity. Last time, I discussed the International Association of the Study of Pain (IASP)’s revised definition of pain, which discarded the requirement that a patient describe her pain verbally in […]
Our friends at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) have announced a call for art, with a submission deadline of June 9th. Unlike Rehumanize International’s annual Create | Encounter art contest, which accepts pieces on a wide range of human rights and social justice issues, PAAU has a very specific prompt: imagining a world beyond abortion. Check […]
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