Brian Rohrbough, president of the new pro-life organization American Right to Life has recently issued a "Media Advisory". As I suspected from the inception of this new organization, ARL is going to be spending a lot of time criticizing National Right to Life.

It’s interesting to note, first of all, that when you go to the American Right to ( Read more... )

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has come out against the idea that states should decide whether to make abortion legal or not.

She then quotes an article talking about how Huckabee-as opposed to Fred Thompson-doesn’t agree with the “letting the states decide it” approach. And this is true, at least over actually condemning ( Read more... )

There are two ways that we can look at the life issue: from a moral standpoint and from a legal standpoint. Thankfully, the pro-life side has the upper hand on both of these, but especially legally. While I find it silly that morals-especially the morals of abortion-somehow change with each individual person, legally things are pretty clear. In ( Read more... )

You all probably know that I was somewhat disappointed with National Right to Life's (NRLC) recent endorsement of Fred Thompson. This was however, in my opinion, an inevitable endorsement. Romney's my man, and perhaps that played a part in the slight sadness as well. But I think really what I didn't like was the timing of it ( Read more... )

The response, detailed above, to the book's central moral claims is also instructive. In 1970 and for many years thereafter, advocates of legal abortion portrayed themselves as the party of cool, dispassionate reason. Their opponents were the prisoners of superstition and emotion. Pro-abortionists back then tried-not, I think, well-to argue either ( Read more... )

After Congress voted in support of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the President signed the bill into law, and the Supreme Court of the United States upheld that law.

Today, Senators Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Barbara Boxer, and others have introduced H.R. 1964 and S. 1173 in a brazen political move to entirely undo the progress we've ( Read more... )

"On October 21, Ginsburg said she doesn’t think the court will overturn Roe v. Wade, but if it did let each state make its own abortion laws, not much would change. “Women of means” would still be able to travel out-of-state to get abortions, but poor women wouldn’t have any options."

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This is like a movie, seriously ( Read more... )

Feministing links to this article today, reporting on Sen. Brownback's bill that would require women to get ultrasounds before getting an abortion ( Read more... )

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