Category: Life

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation What drives your commitment to promoting the sanctity of innocent human life? Was there an eye-opening moment when a life-changing incident forced you to come to grips with the tragedy of abortion? For Tracy, a candidate for the Pennsylvania state legislature, the defining moment occurred when …

By Dave Andrusko The great apologist G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.” That quote is embedded in a paragraph someone wrote that I saved on my hard drive.  Alas, why I have the paragraph, I don’t know who wrote it! (Senior …

By Rai Rojas Editor’s note. This ran a while back but it is so incredibly powerful I repost it every couple of years. “Only he who suffers can be the guide and healer of the suffering.” — Thomas Mann My six-year-old grandson loves to read almost as much as he loves being read to. So …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation One of the greatest compliments that can be paid to a mother and father is that their son or daughter could someday grow up to be President of the United States. And so, on this day which honors the highest office in the land, it is …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation I remember the sweetest Valentine I ever received. One February 14th, when my daughter was four years old, we wandered into a drug store. My little girl immediately gravitated to the greeting card section. Although she could not read, she pointed to the card she wanted …

By Dave Andrusko Today is my oldest daughter’s birthday. Emily turns 37 years old. Thirty-seven years ago the Washington, DC metropolitan area was digging out from under the 15 to 22 inches of snow dumped on us over the previous two days. It was dubbed “Megalopolitan Blizzard.” Today it’s nearly 60,  and we have exchanged …

By Ingrid Duran, Director, Department of State Legislation Editor’s note. This column appears on page 6 of the January digital edition of National Right to Life News. Please share this, along with all the other stories, columns, and commentaries, with your pro-life family and friends. On the twelfth day of Christmas my first grandson was …

By Caitlin Thomas In the Catholic Church’s efforts to teach about the grave evil of assisted suicide and the threats it poses, we must use clear and vigorous language. And it is always, always important that we do so with love. Assisted suicide is suicide. In the few states where it is legal, physicians willing …

By Dave Andrusko It was September 2018 and Kertease Williams knew “something has taken over and [was] ruining my daughter,” but “I just don’t know what.” Her daughter, Kertisha Brabson, herself the mother of two small children, was “acting funny,” Ms. Williams told WBNS, a Columbus, Ohio, CBS affiliate. At the hospital, she was doing …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation A captivating headline caught my eye recently. The news article, written by Kim Strong for the York Daily Record, was about two 95-year-old women who were the oldest twins living in York County, Pennsylvania. The story noted how different the women were in temperament—one was sassy, …