Help, Healing, Research, Education and Advocacy
1/19/15 The governor of Texas has just signed a measure intended to help protect pregnant teens from abuse and exploitation. According to LifeNews.com, the new law: … addresses the problematic issue of judge shopping — where abortion clinic attorneys seek out abortion-friendly judges who will rubber stamp teen abortions and rarely allow parents to know […]
By Theresa Bonopartis Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when recently questioned about what limits should be placed on abortion, sidestepped the question, repeating the old familiar mantra, “A women’s right to make her own decisions about her body should be between her and her doctor.” I’m accustomed to the deft use of words by pro-abortion extremists […]
Prof. Richard Stith Why do many pro-choice people find our arguments against early abortion not just unconvincing but absurd? Consider, for example, the ridicule that the defense of human embryos sometimes draws. In order to have any hope of winning the debate, defenders of unborn life must understand how an argument that seems wholly reasonable […]
From 2008: A police sergeant in California told the media that parental notification laws help protect teens and young girls who are victims of sexual abuse. Sgt. Tom Yarrington was speaking in support of Proposition 4, a ballot measure to require that abortion businesses inform the parents of a minor girl before an abortion is […]
Today, Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers testified before the Congressional Executive Commission on China about the one-child policy. The policy requires Chinese couples to have a birth permit before having a child, with most being allowed only one child. The enforcement of this policy includes birth quotas, invasive medical examinations for women, and […]
The Population Research Institute has posted excerpts from a speech that Anne Morse recently gave to the United Nations about the human rights abuses perpetrated in India’s sterilization camps: Last November, 83 women were sterilized in a matter of hours at a sterilization camp in the east Indian state of Chhattisgarh. At least a dozen women […]
Men have no legal say when it comes to abortion, and often little opportunity to support their partners and unborn children. Men and teenage boys who don’t want the abortion may be silenced, left out of the discussion, or be victims of coercion along with their partners. Research suggests that most abortions are unwanted or […]
Abortion does nothing to change a woman’s life situation. All it does is end the life of her unborn child. So why do we act as if abortion is the cure-all solution we’ve been looking for since the beginning of time? Abortion does not end poverty, so why do we offer it as a solution […]
Research, Stories Highlight Plight of Men Who Want to Support Their Partners and Unborn Children Men have no legal say when it comes to abortion, and often little opportunity to support their partners and unborn children. Men and teenage boys who don’t want the abortion may be silenced, left out of the discussion, or be […]
National Right to Life News has reprinted an important article by McGill University professor Margaret Somerville about what constitutes informed consent. She notes: Informed consent is not present if the information is inadequate — that’s medical negligence (malpractice). And even non-material information must be disclosed if it is raised by a person’s questions, which must […]