By Tammy Shewfelt In 1871, Augustus St. Clair of the New York Times was given an assignment. He was to go undercover to investigate medical malpractice in the illegal underground abortion business. St. Clair and a lady friend posed as a couple seeking an abortion. What St. Clair uncovered resulted in an editorial series entitled, … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Northern Ireland’s attorney general, John Larkin Photograph: Press Association These kinds of battles never end, but for now, pro-lifers have an important victory: they have thwarted an attempt to change Northern Ireland’s very protective abortion law to include exceptions for fatal fetal anomaly, rape, and incest. A proposal to allow abortions in … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson Each year, right around the time of annual March for Life, the Knights of Columbus releases the results of a poll on abortion conducted for the KOC by The Marist Institute for Public Opinion. The KOC asks slightly different questions which help the average citizen get … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Melissa and David Pineda David and Melissa Pineda have filed a malpractice suit against Dr. Rifaat Salem, alleging that he used two different techniques to abort when Dr. Salem discovered he had mistakenly implanted “strangers’ embryos” in Mrs. Pineda. “We went there to have a baby, not to kill a baby,” Mrs. … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research For all their talk about concern for “women’s health,” abortion activists complain vociferously whenever anything is done to ensure women’s safety when visiting their local abortion clinic. Despite documented records of neglect, filth, and abuse (e.g., Kermit Gosnell), the abortion industry vociferously insisted that … Read more
Profaning the sacred is second nature By Dave Andrusko I wonder if there were any parts of last night’s winter finale of ABC’s “Scandal” that did not make Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards swoon. I’m guessing not. I saw Planned Parenthood’s tweet: Planned Parenthood Thanks to @shondarhimes for standing with Planned Parenthood & for being … Read more
By Paul Stark Editor’s note. Yes, it is amazing. Even though Thanksgiving is weeks away, you already see Christmas decorations and ideas for presents. The following remains my favorite advice how to promote the cause of life in an effective and non-offensive manner. My only suggestion might be to move (7) up to (1). The … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Gina Rodriguez and Justin Baldoni in “Jane the Virgin” (Credit: The CW/Patrick Wymore) I’ve never seen “Jane the Virgin” and (given my schedule) it’s highly unlikely I will. But when Salon politely trashes the show for insufficiently promoting the “pro-choice” agenda, I took time to carefully read Nico Lang’s argument. The post … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Don’t look now, but the same people who brought you the abortion ship and the abortion drone are now riding the abortion train and driving the abortion bus. Women on Web, connected to the group which launched the abortion ship over ten years ago … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research You’ve heard it before. The claim that “one in three” women will have an abortion by age 45. You may even remember earlier iterations that had it as high as 43%. And you probably said to yourself, “That can’t be right!” Well, a fact-checker … Read more