Do unborn babies prefer Mozart or the YMCA? And other questions you didn’t know needed answering!

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 …

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Protecting unborn babies “helps make the earth a better place for everyone”

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 …

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If we protect butterflies, why not unborn babies?

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 …

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Pro-Choicer: sympathy for the pain we think unborn babies feel means nothing

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 …

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Unborn babies: hostage until the millennium arrives

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 …

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Decades after baby’s birth, fetal cells “come to a mother’s rescue”

By Dave Andrusko Later today or more likely tomorrow I will post a story that I’ve tried to get to since last Friday. In a controlled study, patients received a single injection of a type of adult stem cell, isolated from umbilical cords. Patients who received these cells showed significant and long-lasting improvement in the …

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Pro-choicer: our sympathy for unborn babies means nothing

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 …

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Holding the lives of unborn babies hostage until the millennium arrives

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. Editor’s note. This is …

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Thoughts on Life on the 4th of July

By Dave Andrusko I am writing this on July 3, two days after NRLC’s marvelous annual convention concluded. Like many, many others I blogged all three days—and I will continue commenting on this outstanding gathering all this week. In 2015 just prior to the Fourth of July, NRLC President Carol Tobias wrote a very thoughtful …

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Eight years later, real hope and change for unborn babies

By Carol Tobias, President Editor’s note. The January digital edition of National Right to Life News—35 pages of news stories, columns, editorials, and human interest features—is now available online. Please pass along the link using social media. The following appeared on page 3. Eight years ago, we were told that newly elected pro-abortion President Barack …

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Bioethicist makes powerful stand for unborn babies at Citizens’ Assembly

Editor’s note. This comes from our friends at SPUC–the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. On January 7, Dr. Helen Watt of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre gave oral evidence to the Irish Citizens’ Assembly. The Assembly has been charged with examining the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution. Adopted in 1983, it protects the …

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