Today marks the ten-year anniversary of Harlan Drake’s conviction for first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of abortion protester Jim Pouillon and businessman Mike Fuoss. The murders took place in Owosso, Michigan on September 11, 2009. A jury convicted Drake six months later on March 11, 2010. Harlan Drake’s mugshot Drake testified that he murdered […]
UPDATE 3/12/2020: We have been advised that this event will be held virtually due to the coronavirus. Contact your SFLA regional coordinator for the latest details. ORIGINAL POST: Attention Florida pro-life students! Students for Life of America is holding a regional conference later this month, and we are pleased to announce that Kelsey Hazzard, the […]
Vox recently published an article entitled “These are the popular ideas progressives can win with (and some unpopular ones to avoid),” by Matthew Yglesias. The piece profiles a polling outfit called Data for Progress, which recently conducted a nationwide survey on 56 policy questions. Yglesias wrote: Each one was tested with explicit partisan framing and […]
Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to Louisiana’s pro-life law which requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Pro-life advocates will rally outside the Supreme Court building in support of the law. One of the rally speakers is Secular Pro-Life’s very own Terrisa Bukovinac (pictured). […]
Last week’s article on kinship caregiving prompted a fantastic discussion on facebook, and many readers shared their personal experiences. In no particular order, here are a few of our favorites. Cecilia B.: My family is an example of kinship care. I have temporary custody of my grandson because my daughter was unable to care for him. Of […]
Today Oregon Right to Life is hosting the “Together We Advocate” Conference, the largest pro-life conference in the Pacific northwest. Monica Snyder, SPL co-leader, will be giving a slightly updated version of her presentation “Deconstructing Three Pro-Choice Myths,” including where those myths come from and the research that undermines the myths’ claims. Here are the sources […]
Ask any midwife to list a book she read on her journey towards birth work, and she will undoubtedly mention Ina May Gaskin’s Spiritual Midwifery. Those who aren’t the naturalistic hippie types will definitely raise a brow at her use of “psychedelic” language and philosophy, but her work as a midwife can’t be dismissed. She […]
Secular Pro-Life strongly encourages pro-lifers from different backgrounds to seek to understand one another and form coalitions in the fight against abortion. SPL’s main focus, obviously, is on different religious backgrounds, but the longer we’ve done this work the more we’ve realized how important it is to amplify the voices of all kinds of non-traditional […]
Recently, Herb Geraghty of Rehumanize International made the following point in a few brief tweets: At every debate/town hall event all of the Democrats should be asked: (1) Is there any point at which it should be illegal to abort a healthy pregnancy? & (2) How much money has Planned Parenthood had donated to you […]
Two pro-life events are less than a month away. #1: On Tuesday, March 4, join pro-life advocates from around the country at the Protect Women, Protect Life rally outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.! That day, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in June Medical Services v. Gee, the case challenging Louisiana’s […]
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