Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker offered some red meat to pro-lifers when he used a wrongful death case to call on states to give legal rights to unborn babies, arguing that Roe v. Wade’s “viability standard is not persuasive” and “should be abandoned.” (more)
WASHINGTON – While chatter about a potential Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio vice presidency has reached a fever pitch in the aftermath of the GOP Florida primary, the rights of the unborn appeared to be the only thing on the mind of the Sunshine State’s freshman Republican senator on Wednesday night. (more)
House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers voiced his strong support for the pro-life agenda and offered some tough words about the Obama administration at the pro-life Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) “Celebrate Life, Embrace Grace” event on Monday. (more)
On the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann predicted that the presidential elections will “end abortion” in America. It was her first public appearance since dropping out of the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. (more)
This weekend the country will be begin its 40th year of living under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the landmark Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion, sparking deep division in the nation between those who seek the right to protect life at all its stages and those who support a woman’s right to choose to terminate the life of her own child. (more)
Since I was born in the summer of 1974, 2012 marks the first year that I can run for president. That does not mean I am announcing my candidacy. Call it my mid-life crisis, but I do at times dream about my stump speech. The truth is that someone from my generation will soon occupy the White House, and I can’t help but wonder what legacy this person — and others from my generation — will leave. (more)
When mega pastor Rick Warren asked then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, “At what point does a baby get human rights?” Obama famously stated: That’s “above my pay grade.” Liberals used to respond to this question by answering that personhood is established when the fetus is viable — meaning when the baby is able to live independently of the mother. However, as medical technology has enabled this to happen as early as 20 weeks — a time when almost all abortion advocates believe the procedure should be legal — the viability defense is no longer invoked. And now, it seems, abortion advocates — a la Obama — are opting to avoid the question altogether. Even worse, they’re using the red herring of women’s health and safety to divert attention from the real issue at hand: whether the pre-born child has the right to life. (more)
WASHINGTON–Nine months after his campaign was staggered by reports that he had incorrectly claimed to have served in Vietnam, Sen. Richard Blumenthal made what seemed to be a similar misstatement Tuesday, putting himself at the center of the action in the historic 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. (more)
Statistics compiled over the past decade show that the number of abortions in the United States has dropped precipitously since the early 1980s, but the procedure still remains a prevalent form of birth control in this country and around the world. (more)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told those gathered at a pro-life rally in Washington, D.C. that ending taxpayer funding for abortion was at the “top of the agenda” for the new Republican majority in the House. (more)
In anticipation of Saturday’s anniversary of Roe v Wade, the pro-life group Americans United for Life (AUL) released their “Life List” Thursday, ranking all 50 states on how they deal with life issues such as abortion and euthanasia. (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)
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska lawmakers on Tuesday passed a groundbreaking bill banning abortions at 20 weeks based on assertions that fetuses feel pain then. Gov. Dave Heineman planned to sign it into law in the afternoon. (more)
Women love a hero. We love a strong man we can admire and praise. We pro-life women thought Rep. Bart Stupak was our man, but oh were we so wrong. It turns out Bart Stupak is “just not that into us.” Unfortunately, it was a very public betrayal. He dumped us for the president and a meaningless piece of paper, but more importantly he turned his back on unborn children. (more)
Something you may want to ponder: On March 22, 2010, 219 members of the House of Representatives came together and said “yes, we do have the power to tell them what they can do with their lives” and jubilantly proceeded to sign away some of your constitutionally granted freedom. What should be upper-most in your mind now is not the legislation known as health care reform, but the legislators who passed it. It has not been lost on me that 60 Senators took away some of your freedom on Christmas Eve 2009 and 219 did so on a Sabbath day. My kinder thoughts will chalk this up to coincidence and move on. (more)
In response to a March 14, 2010, op-ed in the Washington Post by T.R. Reid, titled “Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate,” Americans United for Life vice president for legal affairs William Saunders offers the following rebuttal. (more)
Tony Campolo, a Baptist minister from Philadelphia and the founder of the Red Letter Christian movement, worked tirelessly to help Democrats take over Washington in 2008. He had a hand in crafting the Democratic presidential campaign platform and talked about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on college campuses, creating a media firestorm. (more)
A few years ago, there would never have been a question about the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mom, Pam. It’s a heartwarming story about a family who had to make a choice. Pam Tebow was doing missionary work in the Philippines, got sick and was advised by her doctor that she might want to abort her baby. They didn’t know if the illness would affect the baby, and with four other children and a husband depending on her, the option was put out there. Pam Tebow chose to have her baby and that baby turned out to be star quarterback for the University of Florida, Tim Tebow. As a dyed-in-the-wool University of Georgia Bulldog, I hate giving anything to the Florida Gators, but this is a great story. (more)
In the days leading up to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Americans have shown up in droves at rallies across the country in a show of solidarity against abortion. (more)
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