Category: Life

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Editor’s note. Father’s Day is June 20. Over the next week, we’ll continue running stories which will include new and old stories about men and abortion, often in the context of crisis pregnancies but also just about being a dad).  As we approach Father’s Day, I …

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Freddie Figgers, the inventor and telecoms magnate, was left in a rubbish bin as a child. Despite such an inauspicious start, Figgers went on to become the youngest telecoms operator in the United States. Figgers, 31, is a phenomenally successful entrepreneur whose company, Figgers Communications, is …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Father’s Day is June 20. Over the next week and a half we’ll be running stories which will include new and old stories about men and abortion (often in the context of crisis pregnancies but also just about being a dad). This story goes back to 2014  and is so …

 Mom gave birth while in a medically induced coma By Texas Right to Life Editor’s note. This beautiful story appeared a year ago today in NRL News Today and is very, very much reposting. One Connecticut teacher went above and beyond to help a student and his family during the COVID-19 pandemic, showing what Pro-Life care …

By John Stonestreet with Maria Baer Recently, New York Times opinion writer Elizabeth Bruenig broke the internet for a bombshell confession that, wait for it, she likes being a mom. Her piece, “I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait” was a beautifully written essay about how motherhood grew and …

What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For?  By Dave Andrusko Many Sunday afternoons my wife and I spent the day at our oldest daughter’s house with (prior to Covid) our two oldest grandkids. As the restrictions are eased up, we are eagerly anticipating those happy times together. The conversations with Emily, who is an educator …

By Bridget Handy  Trichelle McDaniel of New Orleans, Louisiana, was 35 weeks pregnant with her son Brian when she started to feel dizzy while out running errands. The mother of six drove herself to the doctor’s office, where she was told she had a fever of almost 105 degrees. The cause of the fever was COVID-19. …

By Dave Andrusko Like many of you and yours, most of the Andruskos were able to get together yesterday to celebrate Mother’s Day. We loved every minute. I’ll never forget what our middle daughter said about her Mom: “You make everything look easy.” Of course, there is nothing “easy” about being a mother. The demands …

By Texas Right to Life In the fall of 2019, Alexandra (Alex) Belluzzi received a devastating diagnosis. At just 34-years-old, Alex learned that she had breast cancer. Her concern was not just for her own life but also for the life of her preborn child, as she was also 18 weeks pregnant with her daughter …

Editor’s note. The following is the testimony of Bobby Schindler to the Texas Senate’s Health & Human Services Committee delivered April 7. Mr. Schindler, president of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, was testifying on behalf of Texas Right to Life in support of S.B. No. 917 to repeal the Texas Advance Directive Act …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Today is the 51st commemoration of Earth Day. The following post ran two years ago today but its message, I believe,  is more timely than ever. If there is such as thing as a reverse spoiler alert, this may well qualify. In this post, you will figure out where I …

By Bonnie Finnerty, Education Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Good writing should illumine truth. That was my goal in writing a recent op-ed on abortion. Its publication elicited a response from a retired professor that unfortunately clouds the issue with flawed logic and a denial of known scientific facts. For the sake of clarity and in pursuit of truth, …