Editor’s note. This blog was posted today at Right to Life of Michigan, NRLC’s state affiliate. In a widely-reported case in Sanilac County has led to the first known court case involving Michigan’s Rape Survivor Child Custody Act of 2016. The Act increased legal protection for rape survivors facing child custody cases. Sanilac County Circuit …
Continue reading "Michigan’s Rape Survivor Child Custody Act put to the test"By Holly Gatling, Executive Director, South Carolina Citizens for Life Five months after I graduated from the University of South Carolina with my degree in journalism, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landscape altering 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. I wasn’t paying attention, even as a young journalist. I had other things on my mind, …
Continue reading "Threads in a larger tapestry: a Journalist’s Journey into the Pro-Life Movement"By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday 28-year-old Lonnell McDonald was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated assault, but is still facing a pending charge for conspiracy to commit capital murder in a beating of an eight-month-pregnant teenager so vicious as almost to defy description. As NRL News Today reported last year, the unidentified victim …
Continue reading "Man sentenced to 10 years for stomping on pregnant rape victim’s belly causing an abortion"By Dave Andrusko A little over two years ago, I wrote a story I remember to this day…and I’ll bet most of you who read “A Prayer Answered: 100-year-old-Mother reunited with biological daughter” do as well. Minka Disbrow’s story of courage and faithfulness and forgiveness began in horror—raped as a young girl in 1928—and …
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