Edited from Herb Geraghty’s original email sent on Sunday, June 29. Earlier this week, SPL hosted our first ever day-long in-person training based on Monica’s hit “Building Bridges” presentation. The event went great and I’ll update you more soon – but that’s not what this email is about! I first wanted to tell you about […]
Last week, Herb Geraghty and I had a detailed discussion of the case of Adriana Smith, a mother declared brain dead when she was 9 weeks pregnant. A Georgia hospital has been keeping her on life support in the hopes of getting her son to 32 weeks gestation. We wrote about the case in detail here. […]
We livestreamed our discussion about how pro-lifers and pro-choicers define “abortion” differently. You can listen to or watch the replay here: Replay: “Abortion” Across the Aisle Or, if you prefer, here is a summary of our conversation. Key Takeaways Summary When I talk about abortion with people, I notice both pro-choice and pro-life people assume […]
Last week I gave three different presentations in the span of about 48 hours in Connecticut: This is the first time I’ve presented on college campuses since I got protested at University of Portland, and I wondered if we’d see a repeat. The University of Connecticut did ask the pro-life club to have mental health […]
Photo Credit Secular Pro-life. One week ago today, March 25th, marked the three-year anniversary of when Secular Pro-Life board member and PAAU Founder Terrisa Bukovinac, along with Lauren Handy, recovered the remains of 115 abortion victims in Washington DC. To commemorate this anniversary and to demand justice for these children Secular Pro-Life participated in a […]
On March 7, we hosted Secular Pro-Life’s 3rd annual trivia night outside St. Louis, Missouri. It was fantastic. SPL’s primary mission is to advance secular arguments against abortion. But our mission includes two additional parts: make space for non-traditional (especially non-religious) pro-life people, and build interfaith coalitions (people of any faith or no faith) to […]
Last weekend Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) invited me to open their Together We Advocate conference with Building Bridges, SPL’s keynote presentation that’s all about how to connect to people different from ourselves. Bridges aligns perfectly with two core parts of SPL’s mission: coalition building and creating space for non-traditional pro-lifers, and every single time I’ve presented it I’ve been […]
March for Life week in Washington DC was fantastic. Each night before I went to bed I tried to write down everyone I had talked to. Ultimately I counted 143 interactions I had with other leaders and activists in the movement, many of them good friends. Practically a reunion. It was also totally exhausting. For […]
Missy Martinez-Stone of The Center for Client Safety invited me to record a podcast episode with her focused on SPL’s work welcoming in non-traditional pro-lifers. You can watch/listen to the full episode here or read the summary below. Key Takeaways Summary In this episode of The Centered Podcast, I talk with Missy Martinez-Stone about how […]
Photo Credit Crystal Kupper I have been a faithful Secular Pro-Life volunteer for years, regularly offering my writing, editing, and administration skills from afar. But on Saturday, November 9, I leveled up, presenting at the Arizona Life Coalition’s annual Pro-Life Leaders Summit in Phoenix. ALC leaders had noticed both my frequent SPL-related posts online and […]
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