Above: Pro-life youth demonstrate outside the Supreme Court; in the background, a sign reads “Keep abortion safe and legal.” Last week, The Atlantic published an article by Caitlin Flanagan entitled “The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate: Why we need to face the best arguments from the other side.” I encourage you to read the whole […]
Mother Jones has an article in its April/May issue entitled “She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.” Quick pause for alternate headlines that more accurately capture the tone of the piece: She Broke The Law. But It Was An Abortion Law, So It Shouldn’t Have Counted. Evil Police Fail to Recognize […]
[Update December 2021 – We have recreated and added to the below list here: https://secularprolife.org/abortion-rates/] As a follow up to our previous post (Pro-life laws stop abortions. Here’s the evidence.) here in chronological order are more studies suggesting that abortion restrictions do decrease abortion—and not just legal abortion, but abortion in general. Note how many […]
Today’s guest post is by Conner Alford. Women and their partners are generally forward-thinking and rational in their fertility behavior. Within our society’s broader debate on abortion, two particular pro-choice arguments have occupied a great deal of attention among political activists and leaders alike. The first and stronger of these arguments postulates that […]
Pro-choicers frequently claim that making abortion illegal won’t decrease the number of abortions; it will only decrease the number of safe, legal abortions. They suggest that there is no practical use to restricting abortion legally and that if pro-lifers really cared about decreasing abortion rates, they would focus on decreasing unplanned pregnancies (through better access […]
The Atlantic recently hired, and then promptly fired, conservative columnist Kevin Williamson due to outrage over his position that abortion should not only be illegal, but a capital offense. Having been a pro-life activist for over a decade now, I can state authoritatively that Williamson’s view is fringe. After all, the pro-life movement is driven […]
Irish advocates rally for life. Abortion remains illegal in Ireland, despite industry attacks. In my past post citing evidence of the effectiveness of pro-life laws, I mentioned a study conducted by the WHO and the Guttmacher Institute, published in the Lancet, often used by pro-choicers to claim that abortion laws don’t change the rate of […]
Ever heard a fishing story? I’ve heard a few, and I’ve noticed something: the fish usually grows every time the story is told. Of course, escaped fish aren’t the only things that constantly get bigger—so does the number of women predicted to die if abortion is outlawed. Estimates can climb to hundreds of thousands or […]
[Today’s guest post by Candace Stewart is part of our paid blogging program.] One of the most popular pro-choice arguments I’ve come across doesn’t have anything to do with the personhood of the unborn or bodily rights. Instead, many pro-choicers try to render philosophical and biological arguments moot by saying that anti-abortion laws (whether they […]
[Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] Pro-life feminism claims that the institution of legal abortion is bad for women. Is it true? This article will focus on the U.S., and the thesis will be: the population of American women can be divided into three groups. The first group will […]
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