Author: Karen Scoggins

Secret National Health Service plan would have denied care to premature babies & the elderly

By Right to Life UK Secret NHS plans, drawn up three years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, recommended that doctors deny care to premature babies, the elderly, and those with “life-limiting conditions” such as cerebral palsy. The NHS England report sent to Government advisers in 2016, laid out potential “patient triage scenarios” in the event …

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Pro-choice author Katha Pollitt says country is shifting in the pro-life direction

By Sarah Terzo Katha Pollitt explained in a 2014 interview why she wrote her pro-abortion book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights “I wrote this book because all you have to do is open up the newspaper and see the way things are going. Since, 2010 when the Republicans were so successful there have been 205 new abortion …

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Governor DeWine Signs Executive Order on Ohio’s Unborn Child Dignity Act

Governor DeWine Signs Executive Order on Ohio’s Unborn Child Dignity Act   COLUMBUS, Ohio—On April 5,  Gov. Mike DeWine issued an executive order regarding the emergency adoption of rules by the Ohio Department of Health for S.B. 27, the Unborn Child Dignity Act.  Gov. DeWine signed the Unborn Child Dignity Act into law on December 30, 2020, and …

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Julia Letlow to Join Historic Class of Pro-life Women in Congress

By Karen Cross, NRL Political Director In a special election held Saturday, voters in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District chose pro-life Republican Julia Letlow to replace her husband, Luke Letlow, who passed away in December shortly before taking office. In a twelve-way race, she carried 62% of the vote. “What was born out of the terrible tragedy of losing my …

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Pro-Life Action League Mourns the Death of Founder Joe Scheidler

Chicago, January 18, 2021 — The Pro-Life Action League is mourning the death of founder Joseph M. Scheidler, widely known as the “Godfather of Pro-Life Activism.” Joe began his life’s work fighting abortion in 1973, shortly after the Roe v. Wade decision, and founded the League in 1980 to recruit and equip pro-life Americans to …

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UK taxpayers funding legal case seeking to increase abortion access in Northern Ireland

By Right to Life UK UK taxpayers are funding legal action brought forward by a group in Northern Ireland against the Government in Westminster over a “lack of access” to abortion services in Northern Ireland. Since the imposition of a new extreme abortion regime last year, abortion has been available in Northern Ireland. However, at …

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Medical Authoritarianism and Tinslee Lewis, Charlie Gard, and Alfie Evans

By Dave Andrusko Earlier today, we reposted a terrific story written by pro-life bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. The immediate context was the attempt by Cook Children’s Medical Center in Ft. Worth, Texas to win the right to take little Tinslee Lewis off of life support and (this is really scary) “prevent her mother from pursuing …

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President Reagan bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mother Teresa: “Mother Teresa is a heroine of our times”

By Dave Andrusko This Sunday marks the 35th anniversary of the spell-binding speech Mother Teresa delivered at the 1985 National Right to Life Convention. I’d like to add a few words to what National Right to Life sent out earlier today about this momentous event. Prior to her remarks, Mother Teresa (now Saint Teresa of …

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