The Prescience of the Pro-Life Movement

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Dictionary.com defines “prescience” as “knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.” See what has come to pass, see how pro-lifers knew how it was inevitable. On the night of January 22, 1973, CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite led off his newscast with a …

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Reminder to media: The pro-life movement is largely a movement of mothers

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation One thing that might surprise the editors of many women’s magazines is to what extent the pro-life movement is a movement of mothers. This is not to negate the incredible contributions of pro-life heroes of the male persuasion, such as former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum…the …

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After over 45 years of darkness, the light refuses to be extinguished

By Dave Andrusko “The presumed stripping of personhood from embryos has other frightening and horrifying dimensions for pro-life people. It is probably safe to say that in our society (as in most), the relationship between mother and child is assumed to be the most intimate, most sacred, and most self-sacrificing relationship of all. To people …

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A magnificent month for the Pro-Life Movement

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This appears on page two of the July issue of National Right to Life News. Please read the issue in its entirety, pass it along to your pro-life friends and family, and drop me a line at daveandrusko@gmail.com. By all accounts, the month since we published the June digital edition …

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The pro-life movement is largely a movement of mothers

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation One thing that might surprise the editors of many women’s magazines is to what extent the pro-life movement is a movement of mothers. This is not to negate the incredible contributions of pro-life heroes of the male persuasion, such as former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum…the …

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One historian’s interpretation of the Pro-Life Movement prior to Roe v. Wade

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. As we’ve discussed over the last week and a half, once the calendar turns to December, pro-lifers begin to think even more intensely about January 22, the anniversary of the devastating Roe v. Wade decision. Over the next 3 ½ weeks we will continue to run new and old posts …

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The Pro-Life Movement and a season of Thanksgiving

Editor’s note. This appeared in the November digital edition of National Right to Life News. Please be sure to read and share the entire contents of the latest issue of the “pro-life newspaper of record.” The November digital edition of National Right to Life News came out Tuesday, November 21, two days before Thanksgiving. As …

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And the greatest of these is love

By Melissa Ohden Editor’s note. Melissa is the survivor of a “failed” saline abortion in 1977. She speaks all over the world including at many National Right to Life Conventions. She has often written for NRL News Today. Truth. Legislation. Love. When I’m asked about the most important tools that we can utilize in the …

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One historian’s sympathetic interpretation of the Pro-Life Movement prior to Roe v. Wade

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through August 25. 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 ten months. I try not to …

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One historian’s sympathetic interpretation of the Pro-Life Movement prior to Roe v. Wade

By Dave Andrusko I try not to go overboard, making comments that require more than a review or two of a new book, but Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-life Movement before Roe v. Wade by Daniel K. Williams appears to offer a lot both to “novice” pro-lifers and those of us who have been …

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Why We Do What We Do

  By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life Editor’s note. This appeared in the May issue of National Right to Life News which can be read in its entirety at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsMay2014.pdf There are many ways people can make a difference in the pro-life movement. National Right to Life focuses on what I call the …

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