Last week I went to Salt Lake City to speak at the Heartbeat International conference. Heartbeat International is an association of thousands of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) and hosts an annual conference offering affiliates detailed training on running successful PRCs. The conference is massive. This year they boasted approximately 1,300 attendees in person, plus countless […]
A nationwide survey of 2,750 pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) found that their services reached an all-time high in 2022, the first full calendar year after Dobbs v. Jackson allowed states to protect the right to life before birth. PRCs provide free social and medical services to pregnant mothers and their families. Services vary by […]
Secular Pro-Life recently interviewed Sheri Petruso, the Executive Director of Birthright St. Charles (a short drive from St. Louis, MO). Pregnancy resource centers like Birthright play a crucial role in abortion prevention, especially post-Dobbs. A transcript of the interview is below. We thank Sheri for her dedication and for sharing her insights with us. Tell […]
Last week, pro-life advocates rallied outside the Illinois state capitol in opposition to Senate Bill 1909, a proposal to crack down on pregnancy resource centers (PRCs). Our very own vice president Terrisa Bukovinac, in her role as the leader of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, spoke at the rally and led the protestors in song. SB 1909 […]
When Roe was thrown into the ash heap of history and Dobbs became the law of the land, I highlighted a little-noticed footnote in the Dobbs opinion strongly hinting that “bubble zone” laws targeting pro-life speech would be next: The sentence “And they have distorted First Amendment doctrines” is followed by footnote 65, which cites […]
With past and present attacks on pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), both political and physical, it is natural for pro-life advocates to become frustrated with critiques on one of our most valuable resources. There are several branches of PRCs, some secular (such as Birthright International) and others religiously affiliated (such as Heartbeat International). Still others are […]
The group Jane’s Revenge is (depending on who you ask) an anarchist collective securing reproductive freedom or a far-left terrorist organization pitching (violent) fits. In the past weeks they have taken credit (blame?) for vandalizing and/or firebombing pregnancy resource centers, typically including variations of the slogan “If abortions aren’t safe, then neither are you.” See […]
In July of 2021, PLOS One published “Pregnancy outcomes after exposure to crisis pregnancy centers among an abortion-seeking sample recruited online.” As of the time of this article, the research is fully available without journal access, if you’d like to read it directly. Here are some notes: The authors have pro-choice affiliations but, in my […]
Photo Credit NeONBRAND from Unsplash On August 20, Alex Roarty published “Podcasts, comedians, freedom: How an abortion rights group is changing its strategy.” He covers how NARAL is trying to make up perceived lost-ground in the online debate on abortion. His article is an interesting look at the strategic planning of the pro-choice side. Here […]
The author stands on a sidewalk with prenatal development education materials. “What parish do you attend?” That’s the question I often get when someone new arrives. When I respond that I’m secular, I get a look of amazement and whispered apologies, as if their question was somehow offensive to me. It isn’t. I’ve been […]
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