A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder. (more)
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has largely been defined by his calls to “audit the fed,” but the Paul campaign on Friday began running an ad showing another side of his political identity. (more)
Although the last-minute budget deal that lawmakers agreed to on Friday did not defund Planned Parenthood, it did guarantee that an up-or-down vote on whether to defund the abortion provider will be held in the near future. That’s a vote that 3 self-proclaimed “pro-life” Senate Democrats must be dreading. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) claim to be strongly pro-life. All three are up for reelection in 2012 and will have to take a very public stance on the defunding of Planned Parenthood. This single vote has the potential to seriously haunt their future campaigns. (more)
Americans should be shocked by Live Action’s recent release of undercover videos showing potential criminal activity at Planned Parenthood clinics. The videos show Planned Parenthood employees aiding and abetting underage sex trafficking. This is an outrage. (more)
The Expose Planned Parenthood (EPP) Coalition brought their love for the unborn and sexually abused to the doors of the abortion provider Planned Parenthood in a nationwide “Vigil for Victims Day” Monday. (more)
Last week, while Anderson Cooper was in Egypt getting his hair tussled, Nat Hentoff wrote another pro-life column. It’s important to remember the latter when, in a few weeks, America’s brave, fearless journalists start giving themselves awards for the courage they have displayed reporting from Egypt. That is, if they haven‘t started doing so already — I mean, Katie Couric had her walk-and-talk interrupted by protestors! (more)
While abortion is a hotly debated issue in our nation today, the history of abortion in the U.S. is rarely discussed. Yet understanding this background, especially the historical views of American physicians toward abortion, is important to the current debate because it provides us with a context and a framework for discussing this critical issue. (more)
On Wednesday night the president discussed his perspective on the state of the Union. If you were looking for inspiration and innovation, you were likely very disappointed, as you heard the same message as last year — throwing federal money at our problems. The spending proposals were offered under the guise of job creation. However, any worthy economist will tell you that the best way for government to create jobs is to get out of the way of the American spirit. (more)
The course of my life roughly coincides with the post-Roe v. Wade abortion debate in America. The Supreme Court decision was issued on January 22, 1973, a few days after my first birthday. On January 24th thousands of marchers will rally in Washington, D.C. for the 38th annual March for Life, joining the many millions who have marked this gruesome anniversary in American political life over the course of the last four decades. (more)
Recently, it was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the Food and Drug Administration, which now regulates tobacco, will require all cigarette packages to carry scary warning labels depicting the evils of tobacco use, complete with gruesome photos of a cancerous lung, a man smoking a cigarette through a tracheotomy tube, and a corpse. (more)
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA. – Pro-lifers called for immediate action on behalf of their concerns at a rally organized by Pro-Life Unity in Fairfax County, Va., Saturday. (more)
An anti-abortion candidate running for D.C. delegate to the U.S. House is airing what is arguably one of this election cycle’s most provocative TV campaign ads, featuring extremely graphic images of aborted fetuses. (more)
In a powerful speech last week, Sarah Palin framed the upcoming election using an issue sometimes relegated to the backburner during turbulent economic times — abortion. According to Palin, the elections boil down to a contest between candidates who favor a ‘culture of life’ and those who promote a ‘culture of death.’ (more)
While watching the most recent episode of “Mad Men,” which focused on a dilemma faced by Roger Sterling (played by the brilliant John Slattery) and Joan Harris (played by that uber-woman and equally brilliant Christina Hendricks) — Joan’s pregnancy — it struck me: even though the pro-abortion feminists maliciously swapped the word “abortion” with the word “choice” decades ago, while regulating pro-lifers to “anti-choice” or “anti-abortion,” perhaps the better term would be “pro-decision.” (more)
Much is made these days of the “tone-deafness” of the Obama administration regarding how Americans really feel about various issues. People have discovered that our once-charismatic president, a person who promised “Hope and Change,” has been able to deliver neither. They see a government that is increasingly unresponsive, and many are looking inward. It has become a time for us as Americans to re-examine our core values and beliefs. (more)
Anti-abortion groups leapt into action last month when the National Right to Life Committee warned that elective abortions would be covered under a Pennsylvania insurance program created by the health care reform law. (more)
U.S. monetary support for groups lobbying in favor a new proposed constitution that legalizes abortion in Kenya may be greater than previously thought. (more)
Pro-lifers have long understood the issue of media bias. Years ago, the late, pro-choice David Shaw wrote a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times showing how biased his own newspaper was when reporting on abortion. Shaw showed that bias came through not just on stories about abortion. Shaw showed how even stories that related to surgery on unborn children were skewed or spiked to avoid anything that might have a pro-life message. (more)
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) plans to annnounce his retirement today, Democrats briefed on his decision said. Stupak, the leader of a pro-life faction within his party, had received death threats and was under intense political pressure after he agreed to support the Democratic health care reform legislation, even though pro-life groups insisted that it would allow federal funds to be used for abortion. (more)
Less than three weeks after the passage of the landmark national health-care bill, the abortion debate is being reignited: Lawmakers in least six states are pushing for legislation to block abortion coverage in some health plans. (more)
