Tweeting while you wait for your chemical abortion to be completed

By Dave Andrusko I am as shocked as I am sad, although I suppose I should not be surprised. A colleague passed along a tweet which generated plenty of approving responses from like-minded people. I won’t quote the tweet, but the sum and substance is the woman lovingly kisses her baby on the head, plays …

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Researchers find “there is a national, hidden epidemic of unwanted abortions”

By Dave Andrusko It is amazing—except when you consider that the abortion industry is in bed with the media—that so little written about the role of coercion in abortion. Writing today on National Review Online, Tessa Longbons and David Reardon ask a question rarely posed: “Where’s the Choice for Women Pressured into Unwanted Abortions?” After discussing some higher profile …

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Abortionist tells woman her unborn baby is ‘only tiny–it isn’t developed yet”

By Sarah Terzo Dr. Roslyn Stephens, an abortionist, said the following to a patient identified as Leslie: “This one, you know you’re only six weeks, you know the foetus is only tiny–it’s not developed yet.” At 6 weeks after conception, the embryo has a heartbeat and brainwaves. Mary Kenny, Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet …

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We can’t close our eyes to the existence of forced abortion

By Michael Cook An overlooked angle on the abortion debate in the United States and elsewhere emerged in the European Court of Human Rights in October. In the case of S.F.K v Russia, the court found that the human rights of a 20-year-old woman were violated in 2010 when her parents and her doctors forced her to …

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Woman told her 11 week old baby was “collection of cells”

By Sarah Terzo A British woman spoke about the “counseling” she got before her abortion: “I went to see the BPAS [British Pregnancy Advisory Service]; the people I saw seemed impersonal, very businesslike in their attitude and there was no counseling… Although I was 11 weeks pregnant, I was told it was just a collection …

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To put all the weight of our humanness on consciousness is an erroneous idea that will have disastrous consequences.

By John Stonestreet and Jared Eckert What defines human persons as persons and separates us from animals? Certainly, there are intangible qualities of rationality, self-awareness, consciousness, and creativity. But we ought not forget that the human body is also a fundamental aspect of our humanity. To put all the weight of our humanness on consciousness is an …

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#AbortionAlwaysWins is just one more lie from an industry that makes its money from trauma and pain

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation It was one of those hashtags I will never forget. As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, I saw that the abortion industry had tweeted #AbortionAlwaysWins . In the tradition of the “Shout Your Abortion” campaign, this hashtag’s boast, I believe, masks a profound amount …

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“Fetal reduction” and the Case of Identical Twins: A coldblooded, coldhearted academic exercise

By Dave Andrusko Those of you who read NRL News Today on a consistent basis know it is almost impossible to keep up with the lethally crazy ideas so-called “bioethicists” crank out. The Bioethics Establishment, ensconced in the best known think tanks, famous law schools, and as editors of elite medical journals, would recoil at such a …

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55th anniversary of Abortion Act coming into effect, 10,135,618 lives lost since 1967

By Right to Life UK Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into effect in 1968 – 6 months after it received Royal Assent.   Since then, a staggering 10,135,618* unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion across England, Wales, and Scotland — in 2021, more than one baby was lost to …

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Father of aborted baby: Nothing can describe the profound sense of powerlessness that comes with watching someone terminate a life that you helped create”

By Sarah Terzo From a man whose girlfriend had an abortion: Jenny rang me as soon as she had a chance to take the test. “I think I’m pregnant,” she said. Those words hit me like a sledgehammer. Her next words left me trembling: “I’ve decided to have an abortion”. I offered to come over …

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Abortionist explains why she now performs second trimester abortions

By Dave Andrusko The “ambivalence of abortion” was a 1978 book by Linda Bird Francke which I have quoted from numerous times. Here is a passage from one of the many women she interviewed that is embedded in my memory: “There was no doubt, when I became pregnant, that life was right there, in my …

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