“She’s drawing strength, she’s drawing life from you”

Rep. Louie Gohmert

By Dave Andrusko The day has gotten away from me, so I will not have the necessary time to do an in-depth follow up to yesterday’s post about the first hearing on a nationwide Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R.

China’s One-Child Policy “ranks among the worst crimes against humanity of the last century”

Ma Jian

By Dave Andrusko I so regularly trash the New York Times for its vast variety of errors of commission and omission that it is only right I offer praise for running “China’s Brutal One-Child Policy,” by novelist Ma Jian. Whatever

More suspensions for string of Maryland abortion clinics

By Dave Andrusko In a story that carries eerily similar overtones to Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors,” the Baltimore Sun reported this afternoon that “State health regulators have suspended the licenses of several abortion clinics owned by Associates in OB/GYN

The Gosnell Murder Trial and an “uncivilized confusion”

"Baby Boy B," with slit neck.

By Dave Andrusko Equipped with a clever play on words (“Kermit Gosnell: Epiphany for Birthers?”), Professor John B. Londregan walks his readers through an exquisite argument for the protection of the unborn. In this context, “birthers” are those who have

Gosnell case shows abortion law needed to protect unborn children

Rep. Chris Smith

By Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) Editor’s note. This appeared in the Washington Post. There are Kermit Gosnells all over our country today, inflicting not only violence, cruelty and death on very young children but excruciating pain as well. Many Americans

Doctors save life of 3-month old by 3-D ‘printing’ splint for collapsed trachea

Kaiba with his mother April

By John Jalsevac May 23, 2013 – Six weeks earlier April and Bryan Gionfriddo had proudly brought their newborn son, Kaiba, home from the hospital. To all appearances he was a perfectly healthy baby boy. But then one night, while

Rousing Fun–With a Message–at NRL Convention

Chris Burke

By Leslie Bond Diggins Editor’s note. With NRLC’s annual convention rapidly approaching (see nrlconvention.com), this story from the February 19, 1999, edition of National Right to Life News seems perfect for our year-long “Roe at 40” series. As you recall,

Abortion law in Ireland under serious threat from new legislation

Savita Halappanavar

By Philippa Taylor Editor’s note. This appeared earlier this week on the blog of the British Christian Medical Fellowship. Ireland is one of the few developed countries in the world where abortion remains illegal under sections 58 and 59 of

What’s airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation,” Part Five

reagan-book

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. There is still time to register for the National Right to Life convention June 27-29 in Dallas. Go to nrlconvention.org. National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias has devoted all week

Rep. Franks: “Protecting pain-capable unborn babies is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. It is rather a test of our basic humanity”

Rep. Trent Franks

By Dave Andrusko While there was very insufficient media attention paid to the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, it is also nonetheless true that because of what was learned about his “House of Horrors” the subject of late abortions