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Beth Fox, self-advocate: “Every life is valuable and every life is worth living.”

February 8, 2023/in Ableism, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí. Beth Fox, President of Rehumanize International, speaks at the Rehumanize Meet Up during the 2023 March For Life. [See the transcription below the video. Special thanks to volunteer Milena Popp for her transcription work. If you’d like to volunteer as a standby transcriber or translator for SPL, please fill out […]

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What’s so special about eugenic abortion: a Down syndrome parent sends notes from the battlefield

March 21, 2022/1 Comment/in Ableism, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Kristina Artuković

Today is World Down Syndrome Day! Did you know? A non-antagonizing piece of information. A picture of a cute kid with Down syndrome. A graphic with socks. Fuzzy inclusive feelings. Too bad it’s not always like that. During my pregnancy with Toma, who happens to have Down syndrome, my husband and I were repeatedly harassed […]

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Congressional Testimony Highlights Life-Saving Importance of the Hyde Amendment

December 16, 2020/0 Comments/in They Can Hear You, Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

Last week, a Congressional subcommittee held a hearing on the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding of abortion through the Medicaid program. The subcommittee was dominated by abortion supporters. The purpose of the hearing, titled “The Impact on Women Seeking an Abortion but are Denied Because of an Inability to Pay,” was to propagate the […]

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When she got a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis, her doctor wouldn’t stop suggesting abortion.

October 21, 2020/2 Comments/in Ableism, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

The author and her family.   Kaylen Before Kaylen, my husband Darrin and I were happy to be average—to not stick out in a good or bad way. Darrin worked as a mental health clinician in a prison; I had quit teaching after our second child and was running an in-home daycare. Our two sons […]

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“Don’t define me by my disease.” On abortion and ableism.

July 10, 2020/0 Comments/in Ableism, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

[Today’s guest post is by Deb Jones. If you would like to contribute a guest post, email your submission to info@secularprolife.org for consideration.] Deb and Shooter One of the main staples of the argument that abortion needs to stay legal is for those with disabilities, those diagnosed with diseases, syndromes and things of that nature. […]

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The people whose lives you suggest aren’t worth living? They can hear you.

May 24, 2019/0 Comments/in Ableism, Adoption & Foster Care, They Can Hear You /by Monica Snyder

[The original FB post where we collected these answers can be found here. We’ve since created a FB album with more such perspectives here.] Recently, “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil tweeted the following: Text reads: “I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made. Both for me, […]

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Every Child is a Wanted Child

August 5, 2013/32 Comments/in Adoption & Foster Care, They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger

[Today’s guest post by Crystal Kupper is part of our paid blogging program.] I gasped the first time I saw her photo. Limbs splayed out across a metal crib, the little girl’s ribs nearly poked out of her chest. Her striped socks — the only piece of clothing she wore on her emaciated body — […]

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Melissa Ohden, Abortion Survivor

March 15, 2013/2 Comments/in They Can Hear You, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Kelsey Hazzard

In 1977, Melissa Ohden was born alive after a failed abortion. Her biological parents arranged for her to be adopted. Melissa describes her adoptive parents’ reactions when they met her: My parents saw the inherent beauty that existed in me. I want everybody to see that. If we look behind words, if we look behind […]

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