Happy New Years Secular Pro-Lifers! Domestic: In Kentucky, a bill requiring women to view an image of an ultrasound of their unborn child before an abortion just made it through committee. This is an expansion of existing informed consent laws in Kentucky which require information to be provided to the patient 24 hours before the […]
I have been visiting pro-life friends in New Zealand for the past week and thought I’d share my observations with you. Naturally these are generalizations, but if something is wildly wrong, I’m sure that Kiwis will correct me in the comments section. In the United States, people typically assume that a pro-life group is Christian […]
Today I’m going into a little more depth on a few stories – so check them out. Ireland – The European Union’s Court ruled that the Irish abortion ban breached the human rights of a specific woman in a specific instance. The decision is already being dubbed the “Roe v. Wade of Europe.” Three women […]
Domestic News: Pro-life state legislators in Indiana are planning to put forward legislation to prohibit the state from funding Planned Parenthood and to ban abortions after 20 weeks. In Hamilton County, Ohio a Judge rules in favor of a woman suing Planned Parenthood. A woman says that she received an abortion when she was 14 […]
I won’t leave you hanging: the answer is that pro-lifers must follow the scientific evidence wherever it leads. Recently, Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute wrote an article for LifeNews.com, rightfully denouncing Ted Turner’s call for a global one-child policy. (Turner, he writes, fathered five kids but “has often publicly regretted having so many […]
Happy December and Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish readers. Domestic News: A federal judge rejected a lawsuit by Liberty University regarding the recently passed federal healthcare overhaul stating that they did not see enough evidence to sustain their claim that the legislation would require abortion funding. Dr. Leroy Carhart is officially moving to Maryland to […]
Domestic News: Planned Parenthood released some statistics recently in a fact sheet format. The facts? In 2008, Planned Parenthood performed 324,008 abortions and received $349.6 million in our tax dollars. The President of Planned Parenthood also received a salary of over $300k in that same time period. In 2009, Congressman Mike Pence tried to defund […]
It’s my first news roundup after this past election day. It led to a fairly big sweep by Republicans in the House of Representatives and many individual State Houses. That said – let’s move on to the news Domestic News: Pro-Life local candidates won pretty big on Tuesday according to LifeNews. 20 State Legislatures are […]
The World Economic Forum recently released its 2010 Global Gender Gap Report. By comparing men and women on measures such as salaries, political participation, literacy, and health, the WEF report ranks nations on their achievement of gender equality. Unsurprisingly, high equality was found to correllate with economic prosperity. What I found illuminating is that, despite […]
Domestic News: On Wednesday, a judge in Arizona refused requests to block recently passed abortion legislation. According to local news sources, the legislation “…say[s] doctors must be the ones to do everything from determining the gestational age of the fetus to a remaining on the premises until all patients undergoing any kind of surgical abortion […]
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