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Should We Make Abortion Unthinkable, or Should We Make Children Convenient?
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by AcyutanandaMost people who identify as pro-life are advocates of legal restrictions on abortion. But there are some also who actively oppose abortion, yet do not want it to be outlawed, or at least do not want to make any efforts to outlaw it; their focus is on cultural attitude changes made possible mainly by better […]
Recap: Let There Be Life Conference 2018 at UC Berkeley
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderThe Let There Be Life Conference co-hosted by Berkeley Students for Life and Pro-Life San Francisco was a smashing success. Not only did each speaker cover very different content, but the style of each speech was entirely different. There were speeches in the style of spoken word poetry, rigorous academic discussion, sermon*, humorous dialogue, rousing call to […]
Supporting women with unplanned pregnancies: can we find common ground with the pro-choice side?
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder(Shop artist Alisha Vernon on Etsy.) A few weeks ago the New York Times ran “The Women the Abortion War Leaves Out,” a refreshingly objective op-ed about the high costs of motherhood that drive many to choose abortion. Author Michelle Oberman, a law professor and self-described feminist from California, wanted to better understand the goals […]
The Ewing Family’s Story
/0 Comments/in Ableism, Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger[Today’s guest post by Feleica Langdon is part of our paid blogging program. Feleica is a provincial pro-life speaker in Newfoundland, founder of Life Defenders, and the regional coordinator in NL of Campaign Life Coalition working alongside the provincial coordinator, Margaret Hynes.] When Jeannie Ewing was pregnant with Sarah—her second child with her husband Ben—everything […]
A Teen Mom Speaks: Your Life Isn’t Over!
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger[Today’s guest post by Erica Shupe is part of our paid blogging program.] There you’re waking up in the morning just like any other morning, but this morning turns different quickly. This morning you are stuck with an overwhelming feeling that you are about to vomit and you don’t know why. The smell of the […]
New Mom Code
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderWhen I hear the phrase “Girl Code” I think of some randomly numbered meme dictating who you’re allowed to date. Well if there were 1,718 rules more important than this one, maybe it’s not as serious as it sounds. But today I saw a small collection of stories about women helping other women (often strangers) […]
Why penalties for illegal abortion should not focus on the woman
/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Monica SnyderIn the last week or so the internet has blown up over Trump saying there should be some form of punishment for the woman seeking an abortion if abortion were illegal. On the SPL FB page we posted a few links suggesting that both SPL specifically and most pro-lifers in general disagree with Trump’s initial […]
Attention students: “Pregnant on Campus” initiative needs your help!
/12 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardWhen I first became involved in the pro-life movement, as a student at the University of Miami, our Respect Life club created UMiamiPregnancy.org. At the time, it was a pretty basic site (it looks much better now, thanks to a new class of students), but we were proud of it because we knew that it would […]
I’m thankful for my maternity home
/11 Comments/in Uncategorized, Your Stories /by Guest Blogger[Today’s guest post is by Heather Crandall. We briefly mentioned her last week during our Thanksgiving series, but her whole story is worth the read.] Having kids is hard. Having a child out of wedlock and alone feels like a running a marathon with a boulder attached to your foot. I had gotten pregnant, after […]