By Dave Andrusko The more pro-lifers are victorious—see the Dobbs decision overturning Roe—the more pro-abortionists are intent on revisiting topics that are already long since settled. So we get stories from the reliable pro-abortion National Public Radio with the headline “When does life begin? As state laws define it, science, politics and religion clash.” Sarah Varney uses a familiar tactic. … Read more
Editor’s note. Written by Paul Stark, this appeared on the blog of Minnesota Citizens for Life (MCCL), National Right to Life’s state affiliate. While this ran a while back, it rebuts an error that refuses to go away: the insistence that there is a “debate” about when human life begins. At the Idaho Statesman Journal’s … Read more
By Texas Right to Life Late last month, Puerto Rican rapper Wisin (Juan Luis Morera Luna) took to social media to announce the passing of his one-month-old daughter, Victoria. Victoria was diagnosed in utero with Trisomy 13, a terminal chromosomal abnormality. Many parents who receive trisomy diagnoses are pressured to abort their children, and Wisin … Read more
By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadephia Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia says that, 43 years after the tragic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, there is reason for hope for the pro-life movement. Chaput made his comments at the 2016 Celebrate Life Banquet sponsored by the Pennsylvania … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Jill Sobol (via Facebook). Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last five months. … Read more
Editor’s note. The Respect Life Program begins anew each year on Respect Life Sunday, the first Sunday in October. The program is highlighted in liturgies and marked by special events. The following is excerpted from a letter sent by Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Chairman, United States Conference Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Ordinarily it makes no matter to me whether I see a pre-screening of a movie. I know enough about film to know that the final product can be dramatically different. But, having said that, I would very much have liked to have seen the prescreening for “The Giver,” Lois Lowry’s remarkably … Read more