Category: Abortion

By Wesley J. Smith The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. According to embryology textbooks — that’s science — the terminated life is a nascent human being. It used to be that the medical terms for gestating babies such as “embryo” (first eight full weeks of development) or “fetus” (ninth …

By Sarah Terzo A former abortion worker said the following: “I was often reprimanded for spending too much time talking to the girls on the phone or in counseling. Their philosophy was “Get ‘em in, Get ‘em out.” They would add more and more cases until some days the clinic had the feel of a …

By Lisa Bourne The day after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling Dr. Christina Francis’s phone blew up with text messages while she was doing rounds. She thought it was people rejoicing over the fall of Roe, but friends, family and colleagues were all wondering whether what they were hearing was true …

By Sarah Terzo In an article in the New York Times, a lawyer talks about a case he took regarding a 15-year-old who had an abortion in Tennessee: “The girl’s mother had been shot and killed by her stepfather, and her grandmother got custody of her. Her dad said come live with him or he would …

By Nancy Flanders Pro-abortion stories are teeming with claims that abortions are beneficial to women’s lives. Women speak of how abortions helped them to build their careers, graduate from college, or create the families they wanted. They say their lives wouldn’t be so beautiful or joyful had they not had an abortion. Yet they have no …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Visit the Pennsylvania Department of Health website, and you’ll find a painful reminder of the abortion industry’s efforts to expand abortion in the Keystone State. Where once 17 abortion facilities were listed, now there are 18. The new listing is for a Planned Parenthood Keystone location …

By Sarah Terzo Abortion clinic worker Sallie Tisdale: “We do abortions here; that is all we do. There are weary, grim moments when I think I cannot bear another basin of bloody remains, utter another kind phrase of reassurance. So I leave the procedure room in the back and reach for a new chart. Soon …

By Dave Andrusko For the fourth year in a row abortion was the leading cause of death world-wide —more than 44 million babies were lost. By comparison, “the number of abortions nearly quadrupled the number of deaths from infectious diseases in 2022,” Ryan Foley reported for the Christian Post. “Worldometer, a database that keeps track of …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This appeared a year ago but its relevance is timeless. A study of men by Lifeway Research released last week found that “Nearly four-in-10 men with either a girlfriend or a wife who had an abortion say they had the most influence on the decision to terminate the pregnancy,” according …

By Sarah Terzo  “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue” in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, psychologist Claudette Nantel encourages women to communicate with their baby before an abortion, tell them how much they love them, say goodbye, and even get their child’s permission for the abortion. Really. Nantel admits the baby’s humanity, …

PRO-DEATH IDEAS THAT NEVER DIE By John Stonestreet with G. Shane Morris Some arguments for abortion we hear over and over again. They’re easy to refute, and I’ll tell you how. In the 1940 movie, “The Ghost Breakers,” Bob Hope’s character asks an expert on the supernatural, played by Richard Carlson, about zombies. Carlson’s character …

REMEMBER THIS ALWAYS! No state pro-life law prevents medical care for pregnant women – No matter what abortion proponents say. Read the whole story.