Tag: Fetus

The “bizarre bifurcation” in the way pro-choicers think about wanted and unwanted “fetuses”

By Sarah Terzo Editor’s note. The “Elders” in the quotation is Dr. Joyce Elders, who was President Bill Clinton’s Surgeon General for about a minute and a half. In 1995, pro-choice feminist Naomi Wolf wrote: This has led to a bizarre bifurcation in the way we who are prochoice tend to think about wanted as …

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ACOG suddenly substitutes “fetus” for “baby” in popular pamphlet

By Dave Andrusko I saw the press release from a pro-life source last week but in the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving week I didn’t actually confirm what it claimed. My bad. The press release read A very subtle word change in a widely distributed patient handout may have major political implications. The American Congress …

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“It wasn’t just getting rid of fetal tissue”

By Sarah Terzo A woman considering an abortion did research on fetal development. She says: “I started doing some research. I went around the hospitals and I started to see all the latest equipment and scans and all the rest of it.… I started seeing tiny little embryos and fetuses. And they didn’t look at …

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Ben Shapiro leaves pro-abortion Berkeley student speechless

By Pete Baklinski During a Q&A session after its much-hyped speech last week at UC Berkeley, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro utterly destroyed a stock pro-abortion argument from an audience member. A student challenged Shapiro on abortion, asking “why, exactly, do you think a first-trimester fetus has moral value.” Shapiro answered: “A first-trimester fetus has moral …

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“A fetus becomes a human being when the woman decides it does”

By Sarah Terzo From pro-abortion supporter Joyce Arthur: “So all in all, a woman’s reasons for having an abortion are ethical. … A fetus becomes a human being when the woman carrying it decides it does. Pro-choice leaders and activists are wrong to encourage debate on the status of the fetus. They are wrong to …

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Pay no attention to the Baby on the Monitor

What were they thinking? An embarrassing article in The Atlantic reveals so much about the state of the pro-choice movement By Eric Metaxas Imagine being told that microscopes falsely “advance the idea” that bacteria and viruses cause disease. Or what if someone told you that telescopes falsely “advance the idea” that galaxies exist? You’d think …

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Salon tries, fails to teach pro-choicers how to effectively argue with pro-life relatives

By Carole Novielli Ten suggestions on how to argue abortion with your pro-life relatives, published by Salon, gives some indication that abortion supporters are having to be much more creative to defend the indefensible. In the article, entitled, “How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and …

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Abortionist: You Need the Biggest Forceps You Can Get

By Sarah Terzo Abortionist Dr. Cope — It is advisable to use the biggest forceps that you can get through the cervix to morcellate the fetus…[the need to] “visually check the parts as they are retrieved” “is necessary to ensure complete evacuation but is part of the reason that second trimester abortion is not popular …

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Reaching new speeds and new depths in the rush to dehumanize the unborn

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. If you are not receiving NRL News Today in your email inbox, please take 30 seconds and sign up now! What is that French phrase– plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose–the more things change, the more they stay the same? This aphorism has been running through my mind …

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Pro-abortion writer tells pro-choicers to ‘get over’ sex selection abortions

By Sarah Terzo A pro-choicer writing about how her fellow pro-choicers should not oppose sex selection abortions: “Also, let’s just remember that we are talking about fetuses. No matter how many ultrasound pics get posted to Facebook, these are fetuses with female genitals or male genitals—not little girls and little boys. If pro-choicers object to …

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Pro-abortion writer admits life begins before birth

By Sarah Terzo Pro-Abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it: The idea that “life begins at birth” is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe …

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A mother who’d lost her unborn baby angrily responses to NARAL

By Eleanor Josephine Editor’s note. The following was posted at Right to Life of Montana. The introduction is from Lianna Karlin, president of RTL of Montana President. NARAL, National Abortion Rights Action League, one of the nation’s most vehement abortion rights groups, fired off a series of tweets slamming Super Bowl 50 commercials, including a …

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