Google's Parisian Love Story Conveyed a Pro-Life Message at the Super Bowl
by Troy Newman
Although it was no game changer I believe the best family-friendly and cutting-edge Super Bowl commercial was done by Google. The Tim Tebow ad was good but like many things Super Bowl related, it didn't live up to all the pre-game hype. Its message was so subtle that many may have missed the point.

Hey Media: Is the Duggars Family Too Big or Are Our Hearts Too Small?
by Maria Vitale
A lovely portrait graces the cover of the February 15th edition of “People” magazine. Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar of reality TV’s “19 Kids and Counting” pose with their latest precious bundle of love, their 19th child, Josie. But beneath the pretty picture is an ugly headline -- “The Duggars Under Fire.” Another headline poses the question, “How Many Kids Are Too Many?”

Congress Put Advancing Abortion Ahead of Promoting Good Health Care Reform
by Richard Doerflinger
Due in part to a Senate seat switching parties in a recent special election, health care reform legislation may be stalled in Congress for now. Many had hoped that long-overdue reform, extending affordable health coverage to tens of millions of people who lack it now, was on the horizon. And some, disappointed at the current impasse, are looking for scapegoats.

On Human Exceptionalism: The Crazy Idea Human Life Should be Respected
by Wesley J. Smith
An embrace of human exceptionalism does not depend on religious belief. Whether our distinctive moral characteristics flow from the processes of blind evolution, or the mind of God, or some other mechanism, the unique importance of being human can be robustly supported by a rational examination of the differences between humans and all other known life forms.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development's Ties Pro-Abortion Group Blasted
by Deal Hudson
More startling evidence has been unearthed about the Catholic Campaign for Human development that shows a disturbing pattern of cooperation between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and groups that advocate abortion and same-sex marriage.

Taxpayers Forced to Fund Abortions But Not to Send Kids to Good Schools
by Dr. Paul Kengor
In my last article, a somber remembrance of Roe v. Wade, I called attention to something that shocked readers: I noted that the Obama administration and Democratic Congress "rejected funding for school vouchers for poor children in Washington, DC, but supported funding for abortions for the mothers of those children."

The Notre Dame 88 Need Continued Support From Pro-Life Advocates
by Brian Simboli, Ph.D.
Many persons who attended the March for Life last Friday saw banners asking that charges against the Notre Dame 88 be dropped. The ND 88 protested the University of Notre Dame's conferral of an honorary law degree on a politician with great political power to promote his pro-abortion agenda.

Attacking Pregnancy Centers: Abortion Advocates Can't Produce a Real Scandal
by Joseph Backholm
Yesterday in Olympia the Senate committee on Health and Long-Term care held a hearing on SB 6452 which seeks to regulate crisis pregnancy centers in a variety of unnecessary and unconstitutional ways. The entire time I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I was waiting to hear something scandalous. Surely someone had been kidnapped in an effort to prevent an abortion. But there was nothing.

The Pro-Lifer's State of the Union Address: What Obama Didn't Say About Abortion
by Brad Mattes
Not a word was said, during last night’s State of the Union address, about the administration's pro-abortion 'accomplishments.' But they are many. Mr. Obama recognized, in last night’s speech, that “the only reason we are here is because generations of Americans were unafraid to do what was hard.” But may we add, also to do what was right.

ABC, CBS, NBC Skip March for Life; Abortionist on NPR Calls Pro-Lifers Terrorists
by Tim Graham
As usual, ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored Friday's March for Life protest. (Even the Associated Press skipped over the tens of thousands marching.) But the PBS NewsHour at least offered a brief from news anchor Hari Sreenivasan. NPR covered the trial on the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller on Friday night (as well as Friday morning), but had no March for Life mention.

Newsweek Wrong That Young Women Did Not Attend March for Life Last Week
by Matthew Balan
Krista Gesaman of Newsweek.com's Gaggle blog could have saved herself from the indignity of making the absurd claim that young women were "missing" from protests marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by merely searching through the past coverage of the March for Life by the Washington Post, Newsweek's sister publication.

Chris Smith March for Life Speech: End Abortion to Protect Women and Children
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The following is the text of the speech to pro-life advocates at the March for Life 2010 that took place today in Washington, DC. Smith, the head of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, is one of several members of Congress to address the March for Life crowd.

Remembering Roe v. Wade: A Forgotten Warning From President Ronald Reagan
by Dr. Paul Kengor
Given the somber anniversary of Roe v. Wade -- source of 40 million abortions since 1973 -- I thought I'd share an excellent but forgotten speech by President Ronald Reagan. The speechwriter was Peter Robinson, featured guest of our Reagan Lecture this year.

Terminal Sedation: Abortion for the Elderly by Taking Their Body and Soul
by Mary Ann Kreitzer
Terminal sedation is abortion for the elderly. You have dementia and get pneumonia? Like Rahm Emmanuel says, Never let a crisis go to waste. See it as an opportunity for a quick exit. No antibiotics and terminal sedation. Abortion completed. Your loved one is healthy but brain damaged like Terri Schiavo and Hugh Finn? No problem. Starvation, dehydration, and terminal sedation. Call it late-term abortion.

Losing the Pro-Abortion Bias in the Mainstream Media, Covering Our March for Life
by Cliff Kincaid
Pro-abortion media bias is something that Accuracy in Media has documented and complained about for years. It was so bad that, in 2000, we documented how the New York Times and USA Today had rejected a paid ad from Focus on the Family criticizing partial birth abortion. The bias extends to refusing to cover scientific evidence showing that having abortions increases the possibility of a woman having breast cancer.

Supporting Women in Canada Means Educating That Abortion Hurts Women
by Patricia Maloney
There are no legal restrictions on abortion in Canada; no medical reason required; all paid for by taxpayers. Canada does not legally protect its most defenseless and vulnerable citizens. But if a woman decides to have her baby or if she's not sure yet what she wants to do, she can turn to a Crisis Pregnancy Centre for support and information she will not obtain at an abortion clinic or Planned Parenthood or Pro-Can.

Barbara Boxer Confirms Nelson's Health Care Deal Doesn't Stop Abortion Funding
by Matt Smith
Senator Boxer has been mysteriously quiet since the deal was struck with exception to her remarks on the Senate floor prior to the vote when she implored her colleagues. However, the silence was broken on January 18 when Boxer, according to McClatchy News Service, “said it’s only an ‘accounting procedure’ that will do nothing to restrict [abortion] coverage.”

Nancy Pelosi's Bishop Admonishers Her on Abortion, Eleanor Clift Strikes Back
by Ken Shepherd
Lamenting how Nancy Pelosi's archbishop has "slap[ped] her down," in an online statement addressing the House Speaker's excuse-making for her pro-abortion record, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift used a January 15 Gaggle blog post to praise Pelosi, no stranger to pastoral rebuke, as both a good pro-choice Democrat and a good Catholic.

What if I Were Born After Roe Abortion Decision? Two Reasons to Hate 37
by Bryan Kemper
So what if the year were 1973 instead of 1967? What if my mother told my grandparents about me just after January 22, of 1973? If my grandparents were willing to send my mother away to be alone and scared for months, would they have been willing to just "get it taken care of"? In my heart I truly believe that if my mother were pregnant with me in 1973, I would have never been born.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Has Lost the Battle, California Was Its Waterloo
by Joe Carter
The battle over embryonic stem cell research is over. A few skirmishes will no doubt continue -- perhaps even for years -- and some ESCR advocates will refuse to acknowledge defeat. But they have decisively lost. Years from now, when we look back in astonishment at having been fleeced for billions to pay for therapeutically worthless research, we'll recognize that California was the Waterloo for ESCR.

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Murder or Guilt-Free Medical Practice?
by Judie Brown
If there is an antidote to the escalating trend to kill those perceived to be inconvenient, unwanted or otherwise expendable, it is guilt because without it, man can perpetrate any horror you can think of and the acts committed will soon become commonplace practice. Clearly, terrorism comes in many forms—not the least of which is direct killing of the vulnerable.

A Quiet Admission Speaks Loudly About Abortion and Breast Cancer

by Dave Andrusko
Physicians have been indoctrinated to believe (or have chosen to believe) that it is hooey to contend that having an induced abortion heightens a woman's risk of incurring breast cancer. So, too, has the public, and legislatures around the country. Obviously, they think they can get away with it. The lives of many women and children will be saved if they don't.

Catholics Should be Upset CCHD Still Funding Pro-Abortion Organization
by Deal Hudson
Only a few months ago, it was revealed that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development was funding organizations actively promoting abortion and same-sex marriage. As a result, several organizations were defunded, and the CCHD was declared back on track.

Top Bioethics Stories of the Decade Yield Hope, Concern on Abortion, Euthanasia
by Wesley J. Smith
The first ten years of the 2000s (please, no arguments over whether the first decade really ends this year) brought bioethics front and center into national and international prominence as never before. Since this is the time for creating “top ten lists,” I pondered the matter over my eggnog over the holidays and compiled for NRO, the ten most important stories in bioethics of the last decade.

Abortion Has Considerable Negative Impact on Economy, African-Americans
by Mychal Massie
There is a real economic toll related to abortion, but it's not something Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or the Congressional Black Caucus complains about. In fact, they all support abortion. In fact, abortion may play a key factor in fixing our nation's current economic crisis. Consumer spending is the dominant facet of our economy. With the economy needing a boost and job creation jolted, a baby is a true stimulus plan.

Pro-Life Leaders Promise Fight to Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Not Over
by Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Kristan Hawkins and David Bereit
These are certainly desperate times. Our nation has come to a well-defined fork in the road. President Obama and Congress can either choose to protect the status quo or fund abortion and ram an unpopular and immensely immoral bill through the legislature. It is our hope that the nation does not choose to fund abortion with government money.

Mikulski Pro-Abortion Amendment to Health Care Bill Hurts Special-Needs Kids
by Kristan Hawkins
If the final bill includes the Mikulski amendment, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be able to define abortion as “preventative care” in either all or some cases. Though it may seem far-fetched that abortion could be considered preventative care, it isn't the case.

Battle Over Abortion Funding in Congress Pits Catholics Against Each Other
by Deal Hudson
The present standoff over abortion funding in health-care reform pits two sets of Catholics against each other: The bishops, supported by pro-life leaders, zealously oppose abortion funding, while prominent Catholic members of Congress just as zealously promote it. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leads the pro-abortion Catholic pack pushing hard for abortion funding in the health-care bill.

Embryonic Stem Cell Researchers May Target Minorities for New Embryos
by Dr. David Prentice
Two recent papers–one published online by the New England Journal of Medicine and one just published in Nature Methods–analyzed the genetic ethnic diversity of some of the existing human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines. Not surprisingly, they found that most of the hESC lines represent a limited genetic ethnic diversity, primarily from European and Middle Eastern, as well as some East Asian, descent.

U.S. Catholic Editor Defends Catholic Groups Backing Pro-Abortion Health Care
by Deal Hudson
Bryan Cones, the managing editor at U.S. Catholic, is upset that I used the word "fake" to describe Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Two weeks ago, I criticized those organizations for supporting the Senate health-care bill containing abortion funding. I argue that if the health-care bill contains federal funding for abortion -- no matter what's contained in the rest of the bill -- Catholics in the Congress must oppose it.

Humane Society Animal Cruelty Ad Make You Sad? What About Abortion Victims?
by Maria Vitale
But while watching this spot for the umpteenth time, I couldn't help but wonder: What if cable television ran commercials showing the violated faces of preborn children attacked by abortion? Could viewers stand to be exposed to such brutality, day after day? Would they let the injustice of abortion stand? Would many admit to being “pro-choice,” if those images haunted our television screens?

New York Times Discusses Palliative Sedation, Pain Control Should be Pursued
by Wesley J. Smith
Palliative sedation, that is putting an imminently dying patient into an artificial coma and allowing the disease to take its course, is a legitimate palliative technique–when the symptoms warrant it. Thus, in the rare case where pain can't be controlled or a patient panics due to severe agitation or inability to catch a breath, a legitimate answer is sedation.

Five Ways of Looking at Bart Stupak: Will He Become a Pro-Life Hero on Abortion?
by Deal Hudson
In the coming weeks Bart Stupak will be portrayed as everything from a saint to a demon or just another political hack waiting to make his deal. Who Bart Stupak turns out to be will be the most important factor in this round of the health care debate. For me, Stupak is the Catholic Politician Who 'Gets It.'

Case of Rom Houben Should Prompt Renewed Look at Terri Schiavo's Death
by Wesley J. Smith
Terri Schiavo continues to prick our collective conscience, our sensitivity to the way she died -- deprived of all food and water, even the balm of ice chips for nearly two weeks -- as raw today as on the day she drew her last breath five years ago next March.

Do You See What I See? Christmas Reminds Pro-Life People Unborn Have Value
by Dave Andrusko
While it is not my intention to idealize pro-lifers, it would be false modesty to ignore that they demonstrate a tremendous capacity to truly "see" what others either cannot, or choose not, to see. It is no accident that pro-lifers defend unborn babies. Love and concern for the downtrodden, the dispossessed, and the marginalized is what gives their lives a rich unity of purpose.

Sarah Palin: Death Panels in Senate Health Care Bill Worse Than We Thought
by Sarah Palin
In other words, Democrats are protecting this rationing “death panel” from future change with a procedural hurdle. You have to ask why they're so concerned about protecting this particular provision. Could it be because bureaucratic rationing is one important way Democrats want to “bend the cost curve” and keep health care spending down?

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Says Pro-Lifers Wish There Was Stoning for Abortion
by Tim Graham
Chuck Norris has drawn a lot of liberal fury for his latest column about abortion and the Christmas story. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow drew a wild analogy on her TV show Thursday night. When Norris suggested people in the time of Christ might get abortions to avoid stoning, Maddow imagined that Norris and other pro-lifers wish that deadly punishment had never gone away.

Senator Orrin Hatch: Don't Allow Federal Funding for Abortions in Health Care Bill
by Sen. Orrin Hatch
The Democratic health care proposal being debated in the Senate not only contains large new taxes, enormous government expansion and huge spending, but I'm convinced it also seeks to allow federal funding for abortion -- something 61 percent of Americans do not support, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey.

Doug Kmiec, Tell Barack Obama to Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortions in DC
by Jill Stanek

For his phenomenal work convincing just enough Catholic voters that pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-human embryo experimentation Barack Obama was actually pro-life, Catholic law professor Doug Kmiec was awarded an ambassadorship to the country of Malta, a group of Mediterranean islands off the southern coast of Italy.

I'm Against Abortion, But: A Pro-Life Response to the Frequent Pro-Abortion Claim
by Bryan Kemper
I'm against abortion, but... I think the statement that bugs me most when talking to people about abortion is, "I'm against abortion, but..." I can actually respect someone's total pro-abortion position more than someone who tells me, "I'm against abortion, but..." It just makes no sense to me at all; how can they be against something as vile and deadly as abortion and have a "but"?

Black Women and Abortion: Navigating the History of African-American Culture
by Malaka Grant
Folks get fidgety and indignant because you may be attempting to trample on their “rights” and “choices” with this kind of talk. But when a soldier in Iraq has an 80% higher chance of making it home from war than a Black baby has of making it alive out of his mother’s womb, I have to speak on it.

Abortion Survivor Shares Story of Beating Death at 24 Weeks Into Pregnancy
by Melissa Ohden
Melissa Ohden's 19 month old daughter, Olivia, was not supposed to have a chance at life because of abortion. Not because Melissa ever considered aborting her, but because Melissa, herself, was aborted at approximately 24 weeks of gestation and survived.

Nebraska Pro-Life Groups: Don't Distort Our Embryonic Stem Cell Research Stance
by Julie Schmit-Albin, Dr. Sheryl Pitner and Greg Schleppenbach
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents failed to limit expansion of embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR) at NU. Why won't we opponents of ESCR get over it and move on? Why were state senators contacting us within hours of the regents’ vote? Because the public record now says we supported expansion of ESCR.

Portland Archdiocese CCHD Office Admits, Stops Funding Pro-Abortion Group
by Jim Welsh
After nearly one month of attempts to have Children First for Oregon (CFFO), a 2009 CCHD grantee, defunded for its public opposition to parental notification for minors seeking an abortion, the Archdiocese's Respect Life Office has grudgingly decided to remove CFFO from further consideration for Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants.

Abortion, Assisted Suicide and Bioethics Predictions for 2010, Tough Pro-Life Year
by Wesley J. Smith
"Flash Forward" is a new and interesting television drama presented on the ABC Television Network. The premise is brilliant - due to reasons still unknown, everyone in the world (except the bad guys) blackout for two minutes seventeen seconds. Well, it’s time for our very own "flash forward" as the CBC has again asked me to prognosticate about our bioethical future in 2010.

Another Major Problem With the Senate Health Care Bill: Sex Education Promotion
by Colin Mason
It's funny, the things that never make the news. Take the recent amendment to the Senate health care plan by Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT). This language allocates hundreds of millions of dollars of your money toward "Personal Responsibility Education for Adulthood Training."

CBS News Gives Platform to Late-Term Abortion Practitioner LeRoy Carhart
by Brad Wilmouth
Friday's CBS Evening News devoted a full story, filed by correspondent Jim Axelrod, to late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart --who stepped in to succeed Dr. George Tiller, known for performing many partial birth abortions, after his murder last spring -- during which Carhart was given several soundbites to justify his work.

Planned Parenthood’s Arrogant War On Science: Not Knowing When Life Begins
by David Schmidt
While science cannot answer questions of morality or ethics, it can tell us many facts about the world we live in. Stubbornly, abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood have a hard time accepting basic scientific facts that don't square with their ideology.

Social Justice Begins In The Womb, New Book Show Pro-Life is Pro-Human Rights
by Bryan Kemper
I want to point out two things I have noticed two things about this social justice trend. The first is most social justice organizations we see leave out the plight of the children in the womb who are facing death everyday. For too many people, the social justice timeline begins at birth—when it should start at the beginning of life.

Duty and Disability: Story of Rom Houben Reminds Us All Patients Deserve Respect
by Christopher O. Tollefsen
The recently reported story of Rom Houben is both frightening and inspiring. Houben, wrongly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state over 20 years ago, has recently learned to communicate with the aid of a speech therapist. Few things could seem more terrifying than the prospect of being in such a state, but going unrecognized for so long.

Post-Abortion Pain May be Driving Attacks on Pro-Life Stalwart Sarah Palin
by Janet Morana
It's been over a year since the election of 2008 and yet Sarah Palin cannot show up in the news without a barrage of vicious attacks from the media. Although she is no longer a candidate for vice president, the vitriol continues to spew over the release of her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life."

Daily Iowan Paper Implies Catholic Doctors Uninformed on Abortion-Breast Cancer
by Karen Malec
They didn't tell women the truth about the risks of using the pill and combined hormone replacement therapy, although the data were available in the 1980s. Now they're not telling women the truth about the abortion-breast cancer link. Biased members of the media are their enablers.

New York Times Highlights Divide Between Older and Young Abortion Advocates
by Matthew Balan
Sheryl Gay Stolberg devoted most of her article in Sunday’s New York Times detailing the concerns of radical feminists over the future of legalized abortion, specifically its support among the younger generations. Stolberg tried to downplay the larger opposition to abortion in the 18-30 year old demographic, and only one of the pro-abortion activists that she quoted in her article belonged to this group.

Harvard Study: Planned Parenthood is an Abortion Business and Business is Bad
by Mauricio Roman
Despite profits of $85 million in 2008, Planned Parenthood is facing serious financial difficulties. Difficulties such as these are driving down the number of Planned Parenthood affiliates, from 163 15 years ago to 91 in late 2009. And according to the Harvard case study, this consolidation is expected to continue with several of the remaining affiliates discussing mergers.

Despite Stupak, Rationing and Assisted Suicide Remain in House Health Care Bill
by Anna Franzonello
Even with the inclusion of the Stupak-Pitts amendment barring federal funding of abortion in the health care reform bill passed by the House, H.R. 3962, additional pro-life concerns remain. AUL remains concerned that other provisions of H.R. 3962 interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and could lead to the rationing of care.

Boston Globe Bashes Catholic Bishop Keeping Pro-Abortion Kennedy Accountable
by Tim Graham
The Boston Globe predictably editorialized on Wednesday against Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin for "targeting" Rep. Patrick Kennedy ("Rhode Island bishop errs in targeting Patrick Kennedy.") They predictably cavil that bishops don't punish politicians who support the death penalty and wars.

Beware: Senate Bill Threaten Seniors, Disabled With Health Care Rationing
by Burke Balch, JD
The fundamental question is whether seniors will be prevented from using their own money, if they wish, to gain access to insurance that will not ration medical treatment. The significant cuts that the Senate and House health care bills make in Medicare increase the importance of protecting the right of older Americans, if they choose, to use their own money to save their own lives.

Sarah Palin is Dangerous? Only For The Pro-Abortion Status Quo and Its Backers
by Maria Vitale
What exactly is so dangerous about a woman who, at the present time, holds no political office and has none of the visible trappings of national power? Palin poses a threat to the status quo because she is a woman with high name recognition who dares to go against the abortion establishment. She is pro-life to the core, both in word and in deed.

Sarah Palin: My Life With Trig, Our Down Syndrome Child; Excerpt From New Book
by Sarah Palin
I see photos of Trig and can recognize the physical traits that let all Down children look like brothers and sisters, the characteristics that may puzzle some who, just like me a few months prior, don't yet understand. But looking at these children in real life, we see only perfection. Let's work together to make this world a more welcoming place for everyone with special needs.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Responds to Pro-Life Critics
by Deal Hudson
With its annual collection coming up this Sunday, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is fighting back against the organized effort encouraging Catholics to ignore the collection. A growing number of other CCHD grantees have been found to advocate abortion but the organization has not been unresponsive to the criticism.

The Overpopulation-Population Control Movement Struggles to Stay Relevant
by Colin Mason
Like aging sixties radicals seeking to relive their glory days, the fear mongers at the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) are still trying to scare us with the specter of overpopulation. The trouble is, the world has moved on, even if they haven't.

President Barack Obama Cares More About Funding Abortions Than Health Care
by Deal Hudson
Obama's mind works exactly the opposite of the pro-life mind, and his language has to be parsed from the perspective that access to abortion is desirable -- that it is good. I have resisted coming to the conclusion that Obama cares more about assisting the aims of the pro-abortion lobby than truly making health insurance available to more people. There's no need to resist any longer.

MSNBC Accuses Pro-Life Advocate of Lying About Abortion Funding in Health Care
by Colleen Raezler
MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan has a habit of shouting down conservative guests, but he demonstrated a new low when he accused Cathy Ruse, senior fellow at the Family Research Council, of 'lying' about abortion in the health care debate during a Nov. 10 discussion with her and Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL

2009 a Mixed Bag For Pro-Lifers on Bioethics Issues Like Cloning, Stem Cells
by Wesley J. Smith
I underestimated the resiliency and determination of those who oppose the development of what is sometimes called a culture of death. Thus, the year didn't go nearly as badly as I feared. The lines generally held because people across the nation and the world worked energetically to prevent the worst from coming to pass.

Planned Parenthood Doctor Misleads Teens, Women on Sexual Education, HPV
by Dr. Miriam Grossman, M.D.
As a physician who has spent hundreds of hours with young people with sexually transmitted infections, I'm on a one-woman mission to expose the falsehood of those claims. Planned Parenthood’s sexual health education is not comprehensive or medically accurate; to the contrary, this eminent, federally funded organization endangers lives by withholding critical biological truths.

Unborn Child Was Fort Hood Shooting's 14th Victim, Obama Should Prosecute
by Maria Vitale
In the massive media coverage following Major Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at the military post, I have heard over and over again about the death toll from the tragedy. But seldom mentioned is the most hidden victim -- soldier Francheska Velez’s unborn baby. Velez was on maternity leave when she stopped at Ft. Hood, where she and the child she carried in her womb fell victim to Hasan’s bullet. In the interest of true justice, Hasan should be prosecuted under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Study: 20 Percent of Women Using Abortion Drug Face Medical Complications
by Dr. Randy O'Bannon
Planned Parenthood says "Our monitoring shows that mifepristone medication abortion continues to be a safe abortion option." But a new study from Finland says that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffer at least one significant complication. Nearly 4% reported two or more complications or "adverse events."

Planned Parenthood Director Who Resigned Shares Story on National Television
by Brad Wilmouth
On Saturday's Huckabee show on FNC, host Mike Huckabee interviewed the former executive director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan Texas, Abby Johnson, who became a pro-life activist after witnessing an ultrasound of an abortion while she assisted in a procedure. She charged that the abortion provider tries to "increase the number of abortions they do."

Pro-Life Movement Must Unify After Strategy Difference on Stupak Abortion Amdt
by Steven Ertelt
Sometimes in politics it is amazing how things play out much differently than anyone would expect and that is certainly the case with the vote on the government-run health care bill in the House and the divide produced in the pro-life movement on the strategy concerning the Stupak amendment.

NBC's Surprising Law and Order Show Brings Some Order to the Abortion Debate
by Father Frank Pavone
If you are tired about how the secular media and entertainment industry always slant anything that has to do with abortion in a pro-abortion direction, here is something. You'll see an episode of "Law and Order" that aired in the Fall and that delighted pro-lifers and upset pro-aborts.

The View Hosts Fail to Grasp the Real Immorality of Planned Parenthood, Abortion
by Colleen Raezler
Profits, not the killing of unborn children, are the "real immorality" of abortion, according to "View" panelist Joy Behar. Behar expressed her unique view of morality during the Nov. 3 "Hot Topics" discussion about Abby Johnson, a Texas Planned Parenthood director who resigned from her post last month after seeing an abortion on an ultrasound.

Vitae Monologues Presents the Heart-Wrenching Aftermath of Abortion for Women
by Maria Vitale
Theatre at its best explores the depth of the human experience, showcasing both tragedy and triumph in well-chosen words and spellbinding performances. But it is a rare thing indeed for a modern play to accurately portray the trauma that is abortion. The Vitae Monologues does just that, piecing together the real-life testimonies of women.

Rationing and Death Panels: End of Life Care Should Not End Life
by Ken Connor
The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of "death panels" and "rationing" stirs debate over the government's proper role in health care, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health are lending new weight to the argument that, when it comes to providing end-of-life care for the elderly and terminally ill, sometimes less is better.

Happiness Index Suffers as Abortion Industry Continues to Exploit Women
by Maria Vitale
Could it be that at least part of their unhappiness lies in the fact that women live in a culture that does not necessarily revere mothers? That they exist in a society that often tells women that the best prescription for what ails them is an abortion? Any of the negative consequences of abortion can lead to unhappiness.

Late-Term Abortionist Martin Haskell Allowed to Avoid Ohio Abortion Safety Law
by Operation Rescue
Operation Rescue has obtained two recordings of 9-1-1 calls made within seven days of each other for patients of an Ohio abortion clinic that has been specially exempted from complying with a safety law involving emergency transports. But how is it that, of all the physicians and clinics in Ohio, that Haskell's abortion clinic is the only one that does not have to comport with the law?

Assisted Suicide Advocates Seek to Euthanize The Rule of Law in Connecticut
by Wesley J. Smith
When is suicide, not really suicide? When assisted suicide advocates decide that promoting their agenda requires the deconstruction of accurate and descriptive language. It is one thing when ideological activists try to redefine terms to win a political debate. It is quite another when a judge does it by judicial fiat.

Northern Ireland Guidelines Could Allow Some Abortions, Put Unborn in Danger
by John Smeaton
Statistically an unborn baby in Northern Ireland is safer than anywhere else in the UK. The success of the pro-life movement in preventing the extension of the Abortion Act has meant that the law in Northern Ireland still safeguards the lives of unborn children as well as protecting women from the terrible damage which abortion can cause.

Awarding Good Intentions? Giving Pro-Abortion Obama the Nobel Prize is Wrong
by Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer
In fact, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is the shameless leader of the war against unborn children around the world; his alliance with Planned Parenthood testifies vocally to his pro-death agenda, not to mention his wiping out of the Mexico City Policy to fund the death peddlers around the world.

Organ Harvesting: Now Defining Defenseless Human Beings as Natural Resources
by Wesley J. Smith
For years, organ transplant ethicists and some in the bioethics community have agitated to change the definition of death from a purely biological determination, to one based in utilitarianism and desired sociological narratives. Why mess with death? Too few organs are donated for transplant, leading to long waiting lines and the deaths of some people who might be saved were organs more readily available.

Woman Leaves Baby to Die in Bag, Gets 13 Years; Abortion Prompts Infanticide
by Cathy Ruse
My point in raising these cases is not to argue for criminal penalties for women who have abortions – no one in the pro-life movement seeks that – but to show the irony in our law, and the striking quotes from those in the legal system as they recognize and defend the humanity of the youngest of babies. They sound so much like pro-lifers.

Obama Administration "Hyding" Taxpayer Funding of Abortion in Health Care Bills
by Susan Willis
Contrary to Mr. Gibbs' assertion, however, it is “exceedingly clear” that the Hyde Amendment does not apply to any of the health care reform bills. An explicit prohibition must also be included in the final health care reform bill to avert a huge expansion of federal abortion funding. Without it, and notwithstanding their strong support for health care reform, the bishops will have no choice but to oppose the final bill vigorously.

Guttmacher Wrong: Legalizing Abortions Yield's More, Doesn't Make Them Safer
by Anna Franzonello
We know from history that legalizing abortion leads to more abortions. A prime example is the United States. Between 1973, when the Supreme Court overturned state laws restricting abortion in Roe v. Wade, and 1980 the number of abortions more than doubled. But where abortion has been restricted, abortion rates have decreased.

Barack Obama Wrong to Trample on Conscience Rights of Pro-Life Advocates
by Rick Santorum
In the current health-care debate, President Obama assures one and all that he favors strong "conscience clause" protections. But a look at what his Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has done to a small North Carolina college should raise red flags. In the Orwellian world of Obamacare, the president promises conscience protections while his EEOC is forcing faithful, celibate monks to provide insurance to cover birth control pills.

Catholics Should Oppose the Public Option Because It Means Funding Abortions
by Deal Hudson
Even if the bishops are successful in closing the door on abortion coverage, the presence of the public option in the bill virtually guarantees that it will be added later on. Why? Supporters will make the argument that a government-run insurance program cannot deny its clients coverage being offered by private insurance carriers. If Congress or the White House doesn't add abortion coverage to the public option, you can be sure the courts will.

Pro-Abortion President Obama Not Fit to Share Nobel Prize With Mother Teresa
by Maria Vitale
No matter what elegant speeches the President might deliver on Middle East peace, nuclear arms reduction, or combating global poverty, his words ring hollow, so long as he is willing to promote policies that promote and finance life-destructive activities such as abortion and embryonic stem cell research.

Washington Health Department Holds Regular Meetings With Abortion Businesses
by Jonathan B
In 2008, we submitted a complaint to the Attorney General's office regarding the late-term abortion clinic chain known as Cedar River Clinics. In the response to that complaint, Cedar River director Beverly Whipple indicated that she knew this writer had requested information from DSHS about payments (tax dollars) to her organization. There is no way Ms. Whipple should have known this.

Designer Babies and Consuming Children: Humanity=Artifact, Stock-Smith Debate
by Evan Rosa
On September 18, I attended a debate in which this question is central. The topic: "Designer Babies: The Morality of Pursuing Perfection." Totally creepy, and not far off the same path: the issue here is the making of our children in our own image. At this debate in particular, we were faced with genetic technology and its proposed use to determine what and how and who our children will be.

ACLU Actually Gets It Right in Defending Pro-Life Student's Abortion T-Shirt
by Maria Vitale
For once, the American Civil Liberties Union is right on a pro-life issue. A man in Pennsylvania, William Boyer, has filed suit against central Pennsylvania's West Shore School District, saying that school officials unfairly censored his son E.B. when they forced him to turn his pro-life t-shirt inside out.

Supreme Court Allows Pro-Life Illinois Citizens to be Muzzled on Choose Life Plates
by Mailee Smith
On the heels of recent surveys demonstrating that a majority of Americans are increasingly identifying themselves as pro-life, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a lower court's decision muzzling the free speech rights of pro-life citizens in Illinois to stand. The State of Illinois has done nothing less than censor its pro-life citizens.

Helping Women After Abortion a Great Way to Prevent Repeat Abortions
by Mary McClusky
The self-destructive cycle of abortion can end by accepting God’s forgiveness, and by learning to forgive themselves and all those who were involved in the abortion decision. Though women who have lost a child to abortion often think “I don’t deserve to be happy,” God does not want us to despair.

Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Player Andy LaRoche Helps Down Syndrome Children
by Maria Vitale
A recent edition of the Pirates Insider Magazine describes how LaRoche had invited Chloe and her brother Nolan to PNC Park for a day of practice hits and hanging out with Pirates players. According to the magazine, LaRoche has set a goal of making a difference in the lives of Down syndrome children, and invitations to the ball park are one way to make that happen.

Duggar Family's 19th Child Points to Problem of Underpopulation, Social Security
by Steve Mosher
The Left predictably responded to the new arrival with jeers. Don't you know that babies cause global warming, Al Gore was heard to mutter, while David Letterman spewed his usual ration of dirty jokes. For the population controllers at Planned Parenthood it was no laughing matter, however. They have a particular animus towards those couples who are generous in welcoming children into their families. “Breeders,” they sneeringly call us.

Washington State Quickly Taking First Place in Promotion of Assisted Suicide
by Rita Marker
Assisted-suicide advocates are well aware that, in Washington, they've found a friendly home from which they can expand their operations. The welcoming atmosphere has attracted Exit International's Dr. Philip Nitschke (sometimes called the Australian Kevorkian). Exit International, an equal opportunity death facilitator, has just established its North American headquarters in Bellingham, WA.

Advancing a Pro-Life Culture in a Catholic Community With Pro-Abortion Politicians
by Archbishop Raymond L. Burke
It is clear that we are experiencing today a period of intense and critical struggle in the advancement of the culture of life in our nation. The administration of our federal government openly and aggressively follows a secularist agenda. While it may employ religious language and even invoke the name of God, in fact, it proposes programs and policies for our people without respect for God and His Law.

Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Needs ACORN Treatment, DeFund It
by Gary Bauer
Lost in the deserved attention to the ACORN sting film has been O'Keefe's first release, a 2007 expose of the systemic corruption at another liberal activist organization, Planned Parenthood. ACORN is losing some of its federal funding in part because of O’Keefe’s video. But the Planned Parenthood story is just as incriminating.

Obama May Promise Abortion-Free Health Care But He Won't Likely Deliver
by Ken Connor
Either President Obama has experienced an epiphany regarding the sanctity of human life at every stage of development, or once again his Administration is attempting to pull the wool over the American people's eyes with a rhetorical bait and switch. A review of the facts may provide insight as to which is the case.

Her Choice, Her Problem: How Legalized Abortion Empowers Men Over Women
by Richard Stith
Men these days can choose only sex, not fatherhood; mothers alone determine whether children shall be allowed to exist. Legalized abortion was supposed to grant enormous freedom to women, but it has had the perverse result of freeing men and trapping women.

Violence Begets Violence, Abortion Culture Produces Death of James Pouillon
by Deirdre A. McQuade
Whatever one thinks of the appropriate public use of such images – and there is a range of opinions even within the pro-life movement – certainly no one deserves to be killed for speaking out against the horror of abortion. The photo on his placard is gruesome because abortion is gruesome, but his brutally honest witness is no cause for such fatal hostility.

Pro-Lifers Must be Realistic About How, When Roe Abortion Case Can be Reversed
by Clarke Forsythe
Over the past few years, a very different legal definition of "personhood" has been proposed in various states. These "personhood" proposals have the specific aim of "challenging" Roe, yet they are heading toward a brick wall, because they are based on a clear misreading of Justice Blackmun's language in the 1973 decision.

Washington University Teams With Barnes Hospital to Train Abortion Practitioners
by Joe Oertwerth
Washington University has joined forces with Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Planned Parenthood of St. Louis to train abortionists. It is called the Family Planning Fellowship Program, and its stated goal is to "develop tomorrow's leaders in reproductive health."

Poll Shows Historic Low: Americans Say Pro-Abortion Mainstream Media is Biased
by Brent Baker
“The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys,” a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press discovered. The survey, of 1,506 adults conducted in late July, found “nearly three-quarters (74%) say news organizations tend to favor one side in dealing with political and social issues.

CBS News Ignores Killing of Pro-Life Advocate Pouillon, ABC Biased in Reporting
by Rich Noyes
Katie Couric's CBS Evening News on Friday omitted any mention of the murder of pro-life activist Jim Pouillon in Michigan, despite having discussed the murder of abortionist George Tiller on the June 1, June 2 and June 9 newscasts.

Parsing Obama: We Can't Take His Word on Abortion Funding in Health Care
by Laura Echevarria
Should we take the president at his word when he says that no federal funds will be used to pay for abortion in the health care plan? Well, let’s see what this actually translates into when we view it without the rose-colored glasses the media has been wearing for almost two years now.

Washington Post Stumps for Pro-Abortion Creigh Deeds as Virginia Governor
by Dave Andrusko
The Washington Post's coverage of Virginia governor's race is a prime example of one reason why newspapers are in such horrific shape. Did I expect something resembling balanced news coverage in the gubernatorial contest between pro-life Republican Bob McDonnell and pro-abortion Democrat R. Creigh Deeds? Only if I still believed in Santa Claus.

What Do Abortion Advocates Have Against Human Body, Unborn Children?
by Maria Vitale
I recently learned of a pro-life group which was forced to shelve its life-like fetal models at a county fair because the images had been deemed "disgusting." Keep in mind that these models had not been manipulated in any way—they had not been dismembered, or covered with fake blood.

Blinded by the Light of Discovery: Gene Therapy Manipulation Presents Problems
by Ken Connor
Recent reports of an unprecedented development in gene therapy indicate that humility before the mysterious and awesome power of nature is a lesson mankind has yet to learn. Like Crichton's Hammond, the scientific community seems unable to resist the Siren song of "discovery," even when the future of humanity may well be at stake.

Planned Parenthood Promotes Hotlines for Dangerous Abortions in Latin America
by Carlos Polo
The International Planned Parenthood Federation and its allies have come up with a clever new tactic in its war on the unborn. They have decided to simply ignore existing laws protecting the sanctity of life and set up abortion hot-lines to encourage women to abort themselves.

Stopping Intentional Blindness: Tell Congress That Abortion is Not Health Care
by Theresa Notare
False cultural messages are repeated so much that eventually they take up residence in our interior homes, causing us to think that they are okay. One of the more insidious things false messages can do is to masquerade as necessary parts of basically good things, for example, that “women’s healthcare includes access to abortion.