By David Prentice, PhD Editor’s note. This appeared in the journal of the Christian Medical & Dental Association and is reposted with permission. What defines our humanity and what it means to be a human being? Put another way, who counts? Every human life has value, no matter the age or stage of development, size, …
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By Grace Browne Editor’s note. This appeared at SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” — Universal Declaration of Human Rights December provides us …
Continue reading "Have we liberated the oppressed, or redistributed the oppression?"By Leena Kollar Editor’s note. This guest post appeared a while back on the blog of Secular Pro-life and is reposted with permission. It was a quiet Sunday evening and my husband and I were winding down for the night to go to bed. We had contemplated going out to see a movie at the theater …
Continue reading "Human Then, and Human Now– My Baby"By Wesley J. Smith We live in an increasingly secular society. One consequence (among many) of this cultural shift has been an increasing rejection of the once uncontroversial belief that humans reside uniquely at the pinnacle of moral worth. Activist academics, purveyors of popular culture, and issue ideologues across a wide swath of movements—from bioethics, …
Continue reading "Simply because we are human means every life has equal and incalculable moral value"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 …
Continue reading "“A fetus becomes a human being when the woman decides it does”"By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. Though I deal daily with a lot of data and statistics and issues as NRLC Director of Education & Research, my work–our work–is hardly theoretical. It isn’t about numbers or groups or even laws. It’s about people. Real lives, real people. When we pass laws or share factsheets or speak …
Continue reading "Real babies made a real impression even on the hard of heart"By Maria Gallagher, Legislative/PAC Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation In this era of remakes, it’s often interesting to see how an actor or actress attempts to re-define a role. Whether it’s a television adaptation of “Hairspray,” “Grease,” or “Peter Pan,” it can be intriguing to view a production with a new player in the lead. And …
Continue reading "Changing America’s storyline — for the better!"By Clinton Wilcox 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. This first ran August …
Continue reading "What is the Unborn? A Case for Biological Humanity from Fertilization"By Dave Andrusko I count on my trusty readers to alert me to stories that I would never have seen. Today’s example is about something I’d not even heard of: pregnant women Photoshopping their baby’s sonogram on their stomachs. From the accounts I read this actually began on the social network Flickr in 2009 and …
Continue reading "“Assigning human attributes to not-yet-human embryos” upsets pro-abortionists"By Katie Yoder Hollywood constantly flaunts pro-abortion media (think: Obvious Child, Scandal). So when a big-name actress like Mila Kunis uses pro-life language, it’s a rarity. On Wednesday, Kunis (That ‘70s Show, Black Swan) appeared on Live with Kelly to discuss her role in the upcoming film Bad Moms, which hits theaters July 29. But …
Continue reading "Actress Mila Kunis On Second Pregnancy: ‘I Have a Human Inside’"By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. A friend wrote me about a program similar to the one described below which we wrote about a while back. That is great news. Out of the mouths of babes… or in this case, out of the word processor of Washington Post reporter Emma Brown explaining the impact of the …
Continue reading "The “disarming power” of babies to “help teach children how to be kind”"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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