The Let There Be Life Conference co-hosted by Berkeley Students for Life and Pro-Life San Francisco was a smashing success. Not only did each speaker cover very different content, but the style of each speech was entirely different. There were speeches in the style of spoken word poetry, rigorous academic discussion, sermon*, humorous dialogue, rousing call to […]
(Shop artist Alisha Vernon on Etsy.) A few weeks ago the New York Times ran “The Women the Abortion War Leaves Out,” a refreshingly objective op-ed about the high costs of motherhood that drive many to choose abortion. Author Michelle Oberman, a law professor and self-described feminist from California, wanted to better understand the goals […]
The Friendly Atheist blog is very vocally pro-choice, and especially supportive of Planned Parenthood. That’s a shame, because the blog is often a source of insightful commentary and interesting, under-reported news. And when we appeared on the Friendly Atheist podcast some time ago, we got along with the host fairly well on a personal level—strongly […]
[Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] So far as I know, the recent “Why Can’t a Feminist Be Pro-Life?” panel at the Catholic University of America marked the first time that pro-choice feminists, who are the feminist mainstream, entered a formal setting where they found undeniable confirmation of the […]
Your president, Kelsey Hazzard, here. I’m in Washington, D.C. and staying with my friend Lauren Handy, sidewalk counselor extraordinaire. She’s a Christian, but takes a totally secular approach to sidewalk counseling. As she describes it, she’s doing crisis intervention—if you were rescuing people from a burning building, you wouldn’t pause to proselytize, so why on […]
Shortly before Christmas, Salon published an article that surprised me. I almost didn’t read it, because I’m not a big Salon fan; it’s home to many anti-choicers-hate-women screeds, and I still have some lingering distrust from the publication’s anti-vaccine days (although there appears to have been some improvement on that front in the years since […]
Secular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard here. Last week, as many of you know, I participated in a friendly debate with fellow pro-life activist Lauren Muzyka. The debate was hosted by Students for Life of America. I took the #NeverTrump position, arguing that a Trump presidency would hurt the pro-life cause more than it helps. Lauren […]
Graphic via RAINN Two years ago, we wrote: In 31 states, a rapist can sue to obtain custody or visitation rights for the child conceived by his violence against the mother. I have to believe that these laws are simply the result of oversight. Perhaps these laws were written decades ago, when rape was a […]
Last week, we asked Secular Pro-Life fans on facebook: “Where do you think pro-lifers and pro-choicers are most likely to have common ground?” Here are some of the top responses. You can read everything the SPL facebookers had to say here. Carmen J. – It’s not really choice if there are no other choices. I […]
[Today’s guest post by Chris Rostenberg is part of our paid blogging program.] In the United States, the courts treat abortion as a constitutional right through all nine months, for any reason, and that has been the law since 1973. It’s shocking how many defenders of the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions do not know this. […]