[SPL recently received this note of encouragement from one of our supporters, and she gave us permission to publish it as a blog post.] Photo credit: Evie Schwartzbauer My name is Billie. I am a gay woman and my husband, Alan, is a transgender men, so we both grew up immersed in adamantly pro-choice social […]
Above: A free sample panel from the “Sex Ed for Everyone” comic by Sophie LaBelle. Click to enlarge. Sophie LaBelle, best known as the artist behind Assigned Male Comics, recently came out with a new comic book entitled “Sex Ed For Everyone.” Featuring many of the same characters as her regular Assigned Male series, “Sex […]
[Today’s guest post by Sarah Anne first appeared in a newsletter for the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (PLAGAL) and is reprinted with permission.] June 24, 25th, and 26th of 2016, the first annual Pro-Life Women’s Conference was held in Dallas, Texas. The conference was the vision of Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director, […]
Recently my FB newsfeed delivered me this gem: “5 Thing Pro-Choicers Wish Their Anti-Choice Friends Understood.” To my disappointment, the article includes plenty of sarcasm, negative assumptions, and (in my experience) incorrect stereotypes. It certainly doesn’t come off as a conversation between friends, so maybe the title was just tongue-in-cheek. But I really do have […]
Kristi Burkhart is Director of Pregnancy Care Center, a locally organized and funded organization that has been helping women and their babies in Fresno, California since 1984. Here she talks to us about how she got involved with a pregnancy center, what kind of help the center offers, how the center navigates working with people […]
Via the Huffington Post: In wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage, Republicans are pushing legislation that aims to protect Americans who oppose these unions on religious grounds. But critics say the language is so broad, the bill creates a license to discriminate that would let employers fire women for […]
Above: Demonstrators await the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage On June 4, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation called out LGBT rights leaders for their hypocritical support of abortion. In particular, he cited Lambda Legal’s statement that “reproductive freedom and LGBT rights have been inextricably linked both legally and politically. The ties between these […]
Students discuss abortion within a human rights framework at a Justice for All outreach. [Today’s guest post by Rebecca Stapleford is part of our paid blogging program. Rebecca attends the University of Georgia and majors in Greek, Latin, and Classical Culture. She is vice president of UGA Students for Life. Her passion is pro-life and disability […]
[Today’s post is an interview conducted by Sarah Terzo. 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.] The pro-life movement is more diverse than its critics imagine. People of all religions, races, and sexual orientations […]
National Review reports: Feminists are now arguing about whether or not it’s offensive to talk about abortion as a “women’s issue” because gender is not that simple and men have abortions too. National Review’s attitude about the matter is rather sarcastic. For example: At the risk of being branded a “cissexist,” feminist essayist and poet […]