Tag: unborn babies

The disputed premise is that there is no morally significant difference between unborn and already-born human beings. But consider the differences. Size doesn’t matter, since big people are not more valuable than small people. Development doesn’t matter, since a five-year-old girl is not less deserving of moral respect than her more-developed older brother. Read the …

By Alithea Williams Editor’s note. This is excerpted from a post at SPUC—The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Here at SPUC, we come across all sorts of amazing stories about the development of unborn babies in the womb. Some of the scientific studies we read are trying to answer important questions such as …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation I have found that some of the most eloquent spokespeople for the pro-life movement are the youngest ones. That truth became abundantly clear once when I was reading through dozens of “thank you” cards for state lawmakers that had been handmade by students, some as young …

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation I remember celebrating the first day of summer once with a trip to a nearby butterfly garden. Entering that sacred space was a breathtakingly beautiful experience. I stood in awe as these elegant creatures fluttered above my head, then gracefully descended to a leaf, a flower, or …

By Dave Andrusko Big Picture time. Beyond what is for now the impregnable fortress known as the Supreme Court’s posture on abortion, what are some of the other principle factors sustaining abortion’s unspeakable ugliness? It seems to me they can be divided up into two major categories: human frailty and a pattern of demands which …

By Sarah Terzo A pro-choice writer shared the following argument against laws protecting babies from late-term abortions: “We may, as many people do, sympathize with the pain we think the fetus feels, but we must be careful in saying that this sympathy establishes the personness of the fetus. It establishes nothing but our ability to …