Secular Pro-Life does not take an official position on what gun control measures are best suited to end the scourge of school shootings in America. We do, however, take an official position on ignorant bullshit memes: we are opposed. So when we saw this questionable meme comparing gun policy to abortion policy, we felt the […]
[Today’s blog post by Sarah Terzo is part of our paid blogging program. Sarah is a pro-life atheist, a frequent contributor to Live Action News, a board member of the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, and the force behind ClinicQuotes.com.] Nurse Brenda Pratt-Shafer worked for three days at a late-term abortion center that did […]
Texas law mandates that women seeking an abortion must be given an informational pamphlet on abortion and then wait 24 hours before undergoing an abortion procedure. This pamphlet was created in 2003 and is now being updated to reflect more current knowledge of fetal development and the effects of abortion. The new pamphlet was made […]
A few weeks ago, the Huffington Post ran an article about the obstacles encountered by young women interested in permanent surgical sterilization (e.g. tubal ligation): The first time Bri Seeley told her doctor she wanted to be sterilized, she was 24 years old. … Motherhood, she knew deep in her bones, was not for her. […]
The other day, I had an interesting private twitter conversation with well-known abortion advocate and author Robin Marty. Marty was promoting a local project that plans to call itself a “pregnancy center,” but that will refer for abortions. The idea is that it will treat abortion, adoption, and parenting as equally valid options and offer […]
In yesterday’s post I wrote about the Justice For All (JFA) training seminar. I enjoyed the seminar because I appreciate JFA’s relational approach and substantial arguments. In today’s post I’ll explain one more reason I enjoyed the seminar: the people running the seminar made a clear effort to be religiously inclusive. That means a lot […]
Yesterday, an article by SPL member Sarah Terzo appeared on Live Action News, entitled “Abortion clinic counseling: rhetoric vs. reality.” In it, she describes insider accounts of supposedly “non-directive” counseling at abortion facilities that is anything but. The “counselors” emphasize the negative aspects of parenthood, evade questions about prenatal development, and make their sale. This […]
[Guest Blogger LN rejects the suggestion that restricting abortion has no effect on the actual abortion rate.] If you’re against abortion– and not in an, “Oh it’s not for me, but ya’ll do whatever suits you!” way, but more of an, “Abortion is almost always the wrongful taking of a human life and I want […]
Earlier this year, NPR reported on a controversial abortion-related arrest: Jennie Linn McCormack was charged last year under an obscure Idaho law for ending her pregnancy with RU-486. She joins an increasing number of women who get the so-called abortion pill off the internet. NPR describes the circumstances of the abortion: In late 2010, McCormack […]
Similar to previous stories, a federal judge ruled that Baltimore cannot force a CPC to post signs stating the CPC does not provide abortions or birth control. In 2009 Baltimore passed a law requiring such signs, and Archbishop Edwin O’Brien filed suit, claiming the law violated free speech and assembly, free exercise of religion, equal protection under […]