A 15-week Phantom “Ban” is no “Ban” at all

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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Abortion Myths That Need Dismantling: Six Week Bans Take Effect Before Many Women Know They’re Pregnant

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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Defend the Unborn by Correcting Pro-Abortion Propaganda

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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“The Supreme Court’s decision marked the righting of a constitutional wrong, and it opened up the chance to right a great moral wrong: the legalized killing of unborn Americans”

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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“It is simple. Infants born alive following an abortion are kids” and should be treated

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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“I implore my Democratic colleagues to put aside politics and stand in support of lifesaving care for these innocent newborns”

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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Speaker Kevin McCarthy will stand up to President Biden and to pro-abortion Democrats

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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Pro-abortion Governor of Guam vetoes Heartbeat Bill; legislature unable to override.

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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Guam passes protective legislation modeled after Texas Heartbeat Act

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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Portugal’s Parliament passes euthanasia bill. President de Sousa rejected two previous euthanasia bills.

 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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There’s a Pro-Abortion Trojan Horse in a Veterans Affairs Bill

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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MPs line up to slam motion calling for abortion to be enshrined in Bill of Rights

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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