An Unborn Child is Counting on You

  By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life Editor’s note. This appeared on page 3 of the August edition of National Right to Life News. You can read the issue in its entirety at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsAugust2014.pdf. It’s amazing how fast this summer has gone. As you read this, many schools are already back in session …

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A Movement of Hope and Miracles

  By Micaiah Bilger, Education Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Lifelines Every baby is a miracle. I’ve heard that saying many, many times, but I understand it a lot better now that I’m working in the pro-life movement. Especially when I read stories about babies like Hannah. While Hannah was still in the womb, doctors diagnosed …

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The Right-to-Life Movement: Alive and Well

  By Carol Tobias, President Editor’s note. This President’s column appeared in the July issue of National Right to Life News. You can read the issue in its entirety online at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsJuly2014.pdf I’ve done some media interviews recently that encompassed variations on the question, “The pro-life movement seems to be growing. How do you account …

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The power of sustaining relationships for our Movement

  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 the last three National Right to Life Conventions where she will again this June. She is a frequent contributor to NRL News and NRL News Today. Perhaps you may have …

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Right to Life Only For “Thinkers?”

By Wesley J. Smith Many bioethicists want to destroy what remains of the sanctity/equality of human life ethic. Two areas of current push in this regard are the drive to permit infanticide and to harvest organs from living cognitively devastated patients.But there’s an impediment: If human beings have equal moral value simply because they are …

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If not me, who? If not us, who?

By Dave Andrusko Ellie Saul is a gifted writer, some of whose postings at bound4life.org  she has happily allowed us to reprint. (To cite two examples, http://nrlc.cc/YmXwZa and http://nrlc.cc/WztKEc.) I find her a delight for many reasons but first and foremost because her writings are bathed in a passionate concern for the unborn, the outpouring …

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Why, against impressive odds, does our Movement not only survive but thrive?

By Dave Andrusko Granted, I only scratched the surface of the 2,600+ responses to “Why Pro-lifers keep fighting abortion,” but I think I get the drift. Message: “drop dead, prolifers.” Hey, that’s okay. Helen M. Alvaré and Meg T. McDonnell no doubt anticipated a hailstorm of withering blowback to their opinion piece in the Washington …

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A Birthday Kiss and a Hug

By Dave Andrusko Today is my oldest daughter’s birthday. The weather is altogether different than it was in 1983; it is relatively warm outside and the ground is free of snow. Emily is a special education teacher and an extraordinary young woman, as kind and as welcoming as she is loving and generous. My wife …

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Why the Movement will bounce back

By Dave Andrusko It can be helpful to compare and contrast, even when the conflicting viewpoints are, on the one hand, a recipe for disaster, and, on the other hand, a reminder of how much the Republican Party stands to lose if it softens its staunchly pro-life position. Side by side they can tell us …

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The Indispensable Role of Men in the Right to Life Movement

By Joleigh Little, Teens for Life Director, Wisconsin Right to Life After years of hearing the (absolutely false to the point of absurdity) claim that the right-to-life movement is dominated by men, I’m going to do something that might be considered a little odd.  I’m going to focus on men. Before I do that, let …

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