By Dave Andrusko I had coffee this morning with my pastor. I got to Panera’s a little early and as I always do when I have a spare minute, I checked my tweets which roll in like waves from the ocean. One, I saw, had come in very late last night. Someone I have known …
Continue reading "Unexpectedly Pregnant later in life"By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation One of the greatest attributes of the pro-life movement is the concern it shows to pregnant women facing serious challenges in their lives. There is no woman in Pennsylvania–or across the country–who should feel as if she is being forced into abortion. Help is as close as …
Continue reading "Reaching Out to Pregnant Women Facing Challenges"“You’re going to be a mom.” “You’re doing to be a dad.” By Dave Andrusko David, my son, his wife Jean, and their two kids are on an abbreviated three day holiday trip. They’ve tweeted numerous pictures of their time in a state park which includes multiple examples of Ethan’s fascination with all creatures green …
Continue reading "“Honey… we’re pregnant”"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 "What upsets pro-abortionists now? “Assigning human attributes to not-yet-human embryos”"By Save the Storks This true story was submitted to us by Jen. “There’s been so much in my newsfeed lately regarding the debate between pro-life and pro-choice and the rights and ethics behind each stance. I know I share many of those posts, but rarely do I speak about why. I used to be …
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By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation The couple was already in their 30s when they met and married. Less than two months after the nuptials, the wife became pregnant. It was unplanned. It would be quite late in the game before the husband, who was facing serious financial struggles, knew of the pregnancy. …
Continue reading "Needed: The hand of friendship to a pregnant woman in dire difficulty"By Jay Hobbs There is no doubt in Laura’s mind that a free ultrasound test at a pregnancy center saved her son, Cash’s, life. When she found out she was pregnant, Laura was a single mom of two girls, having struggled without child support, working two jobs and making ends meet thanks to government assistance …
Continue reading "Unsure whether to abort, woman asks, “What is God trying to tell me?”"By Texas Right to Life Pro-Life students at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, have an active presence on campus. The Pro-Life student group, Lumberjacks for Life, works to bring the Culture of Life to their community. In 2009, Lumberjacks for Life embarked on an exciting initiative when they became the first Pro-Life group …
Continue reading "“Lumberjacks for Life” work to empower pregnant and parenting students on campus"By Dave Andrusko We received some very interesting (and affirmative) responses to a recent post written by a mother whose teenage daughter had become pregnant and how the family together found a life-affirming answer (“Mom, I’m pregnant.”). I would really like to hear from you–what you’d say in the following two scenarios to the parents. …
Continue reading "You are the friend of the parents of a pregnant teen: what would you say to them?"By Elizabeth Spillman, StandUpGirl.com This past Friday, I was honored to be able to participate in my 7th March for Life in our nation’s Capital. While traveling from my home in Oregon to Washington D.C. for the March, I had an interesting interaction with a friend that caused me to refocus on why I was …
Continue reading "Why I March: Reflections on the March for Life"By Jay Hobbs There is no doubt in Laura’s mind that a free ultrasound test at a pregnancy center saved her son, Cash’s, life. When she found out she was pregnant, Laura was a single mom of two girls, having struggled without child support, working two jobs and making ends meet thanks to government assistance …
Continue reading "Unsure whether to abort, woman asks, “What is God trying to tell me?”"By Dave Andrusko Often I will pick apart pro-abortion arguments because they are either blatantly untrue, ridiculous extrapolations, and/or internally incoherent. However I also try to be a keen enough (and sympathetic enough) observer to look beneath the surface. So when a friend forwarded “Abortion in the Public Imagination,” a post at Patheos, I resisted my …
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