By David N. O’Steen, Ph.D. “Top anti-abortion leaders are continuing to lobby Donald Trump on a 15- week ban they believe should be the standard for Republican Party” began a story in the May 18 issue of Politico. A similar story ran in the same day in the Washington Post. These are not publications sympathetic to pro-lifers. How …
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By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research It is hard to tell exactly when or where the first statement was made, but shortly after pro-lifers introduced the first “Heartbeat Bill” in 2011, pro-abortion activists began complaining that the law, if passed, would ban abortions as early as the sixth week of …
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By Carol Tobias, President Have you noticed how practically every piece of legislation designed to protect unborn children and their mothers is called an abortion “ban”? A bill that would prevent abortion after 15 weeks, a time at which the unborn child can feel pain, is called a “ban” by abortion advocates in the Democrat …
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Editor’s note. On Tuesday the Senate witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of pro-life speeches. We will post three of those remarks today and more tomorrow. The following comes from Sen. John Thune (R-SD). Mr. President, on Friday, as they have done for decades, Americans from around the country— many of them young people—took to the streets …
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Editor’s note. On January 12, 210 House Democrats voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that required “healthcare practitioners to give the same level of care to a child born alive after an abortion or an attempted abortion as the child at that same gestational age,” to quote pro-life Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). …
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Editor’s note. On January 12, 210 House Democrats voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that required “healthcare providers to administer the same level of care to the babies who survive abortions that they would to any other child born at the same gestational age.” The following are the remarks of pro-life Rep. …
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By Dave Andrusko Say this for The New York Times, itknows who its opposition is, the women and men who will fight for the lives of unborn babies with passion and shrewdness in season and out of season. Saturday’s editorial was primarily about a different dimension to the abortion battle but here’s what the editorial board …
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By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. After this story first appeared, the Guam legislature fell short of the 10 votes needed to override Gov. Guerrero’s veto. “You know during this journey, trying to try to advocate for life against ACLU against Planned Parenthood coming to Guam, they really stood by, they really stood by defending life,” said …
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By Dave Andrusko On Friday, Guam’s legislature narrowly passed a bill modeled after Texas’s Heartbeat Act which protects unborn children whose heartbeat can be detected, at approximately 6 weeks. The vote on Guam Heartbeat Act of 2022 passed the U.S. territory’s unicameral legislature by a vote of 8-7. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Telena Nelson. …
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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Alison Roberts reported for BBC News on December 9 that Portugal’s parliament passed a bill that would legalize euthanasia if an adult’s wish to die is “current and reiterated, serious, free and informed”. Roberts reported: MPs voted 126 to 84 in favour, with all but seven members …
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By Kelsey Hazzard Secular Pro-Life has joined a coalition letter sounding the alarm over efforts to turn Veterans Affairs (VA) funding into a new revenue stream for abortion. On behalf of the millions of Americans that we represent, we write to express our concern with increased funding for the Office of Women’s Health in light …
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By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children MPs from across the political spectrum on abortion condemned the idea of making abortion a human right, with pro-life MPs taking the opportunity to stand up for the rights of unborn children. Parliament debated E-petition 619334, which calls on the Government to include abortion rights in …
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