By Sarah Terzo Pro-Choice groups and organizations such as Planned Parenthood maintain that abortion is beneficial to women. They claim that women do not have emotional problems after their abortions. Planned Parenthood’s slogan “Care. No Matter What” implies that their workers care about women and are dedicated to helping them in difficult circumstances. On their … Read more
By Jay Hobbs Hawaii joins growing list of states cracking down on pregnancy centers’ free speech. Add Hawaii to a growing list of U.S. states seeking to force pro-life pregnancy help centers to promote abortion. Twin bills were introduced in the both houses of the legislature last week calling for the organizations to post signage … Read more
By Paul Stark Abortion is justified, many of its defenders argue, because women have a right to control their own bodies. “My body, my choice,” signs and bumper stickers proclaim. The bodily autonomy argument takes a few different forms. None, however, are successful. Some people think that the unborn (the human embryo or fetus) is … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Steph Herold As our growing army of readers knows, NRL News Today posts a great deal on our benighted opposition’s attempts to “normalize” abortion, as if obliterating your own child were no different (literally, in one case) than a relaxing day at the spa. Some abortions are “easier” to defend, which is … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., National Right to Life Director of Education and Research and Dave Andrusko, WASHINGTON – Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) today published a report in JAMA Psychiatry (“Women’s Mental Health and Well-being 5 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion“) that aims to further the myth … Read more
By David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., National Right to Life Executive Director Members of NRLC’s executive committee and NRLC staff met with Donald Trump this summer. NRLC congratulates President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence and looks forward to working with them in the coming years. A National Referendum on Abortion – that’s how Ernest … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Ohio Gov. John Kasich today signed SB 127, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. His signature raises to 15 the number of states that protect unborn babies capable of experiencing pain from the excruciating agony of abortion. Such a law is already on the books in 14 states— Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, … Read more
Cassandra Kaake was found bludgeoned to death. Her baby girl Molly was killed in the attack too. Ottawa, October 18 – Those who spoke against Bill C-225 (Protection of Pregnant Women and Their Preborn Children Act or “Cassie and Molly’s Law”) in yesterday evening’s debate are endangering Canadian women and the choices they make. They … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Cecile Richards and Margaret Sanger Okay, I appreciate the need to thread the needle-that is, for PPFA to acknowledge (in the most minimal imaginable fashion) some of the outrageous things its founder did and said without raining on Planned Parenthood’s parade in celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding by the notorious … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last five months. This first ran July … Read more