By Dave Andrusko As my wife put it this morning, we are re-entering the world we had blissfully ignored for five glorious days while we prepared for and then celebrated the marriage of our middle daughter. Talk about going from the high-highs to the low-lows. I guess everyone but us was familiar with what … Read more
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. Ever since reducing maternal mortality was established as one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), abortion advocacy groups have been working hard to affix their own goals inextricably to the global effort to reduce the incidence of death of mothers in childbirth. As the MDGs near … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) My apologies for arriving at this late. One (very good after the fact) excuse is that Mollie Hemingway has already written the definitive rebuttal. For those who may not have followed what took place last week, in responding to criticism that he had doubts about global warming, … Read more
WASHINGTON – Today, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, issued a new report, “The State of Abortion in America.” The report summarizes key legislative developments at the state and federal levels, finds that the annual number of abortions continues to … Read more
By Dave Andrusko The Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo Back in December, NRL News Today wrote about the likelihood that North Dakota’s 2013 abortion total would be dramatically down from 2012 (“North Dakota: a state that had fewer abortions in 2013 and vigorously defends its pro-life laws against pro-abortion attacks”). A story that … Read more
By Dave Andrusko My guess is that every pro-lifer could offer multiple reasons not to have an abortion. In critiquing pro-abortionists and celebrating pro-lifers, we at National Right to Life News Today implicitly offer our own catalogue of reasons to choose life. I mention this today because of a piece that ran over the weekend … Read more
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 Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL ETF Director of Education & Research The reasons women have abortions are not simple and thus can be difficult to study and/or categorize. That’s one reason why the two most recent previous studies on abortion reasons, from the Guttmacher Institute, date from 2005 and 1988. Now, though, the same … Read more
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research There have been a rash of articles in media of late pushing the line that informed consent laws, laws limiting chemical abortions, and challenges to so-called “web-cam abortions” are totally unnecessary, just pro-life ploys to put more obstacles in the way of women getting … Read more
By Pat Buckley, European Life Network Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach Director Scott Fischbach visited today with Finland’s Interior Minister Dr. Paivi Rasanen in the Finnish Parliament House. Finland’s Interior Minister sparked uproar in Finland in July by sharply criticizing the country’s liberal abortion laws. In a speech to a Lutheran missions gathering in … Read more