The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.* This Mother’s Day be sure to thank your mother for, among other things, choosing to give you the gift of life – especially if you were born in or after 1973! Thanks, mom, for life! And thank all of you mothers for choosing life, love and maternity in a … Read More
Threatening a Woman’s “Right to Choose”
The Missouri bill to criminalize coerced abortions has been moving along in the legislature. It has passed the House and a public hearing was completed in the Senate this Monday. It has also sparked an onslaught of negative editorials and letters to the editor claiming that the bill is disrespectful of a woman’s right to choose. Apparently these people have … Read More
Planned Parenthood is not Protecting Women
This Sunday Hannity’s America exposed PP’s inability to recognize and report illegal activity when it’s staring them right in the face. The story centered around a 14-year old girl who was impregnated by her 21-year old soccer coach. The girl’s parents were never notified since PP was given the soccer coach’s number instead and he acted as her guardian. The … Read More
“Let’s Make Sure We Know What We’re Talking About”
In these two videos Fr. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life describes first a “suction aspiration” abortion and second a “dilation and evacuation” abortion. His message: “If we’re going to talk about abortion in this country, let’s make sure we know what we’re talking about. And let’s work to bring it to an end.” h/t Catholic Fire Now, it … Read More
News Flash: Abortion Hurts Women
Pro-lifers and many post-abortive women have been saying this for years, of course and now others are catching on. In the UK the Royal College of Psychiatrists warns that abortion can lead to mental illness. Here is a response to the story from a NJ woman: Life as I knew it ended with the untimely co-erced abortion of my daughter, … Read More
Breast Feeding Benefits
It turns out that there is more to the benefits of breast milk than we originally though. It appears that breast milk contains stem cells that aide the further development of the infant after birth (h/t Mary Meets Dolly): “We already know how breast milk provides for the baby’s nutritional needs, but we are only just beginning to understand that … Read More
The Legacy of Abortion
This was a very interesting op-ed by a woman who shares her experience in a women’s book club meeting in which five of the six women (the author being one of them) admitted to having an abortion in the early years after Roe v. Wade: We were among the first wave of girls who came of age after abortion became … Read More
Blunt’s Task Force
I’ve been giving Gov. Blunt a pretty hard time lately, not that he doesn’t deserve it – with his unwavering support for human cloning research. But I suppose I should give him credit when he stands on the right side of life issues. He is consistently anti-abortion and has done some good things in that area as Governor. Now he … Read More
Abortion Support Losing Ground?
A spoke previously about post Roe policy and pro-choice Anna Quindlen’s Newsweek article, How Much Jail Time?. In his August 15 op-ed for the West Branch Times, Gregory R. Norfleet reflects on that column and the pro-choicers’ ultimatum for pro-lifers: either throw women and jail for having abortions or keep abortion legal: Quindlen’s column seems to imply that she’s getting … Read More
Post “Roe” Policy
Just the other day I raised the question of jail time for abortive women in a post Roe world on my own little blog and today I come to find out that it has recently been a pretty heavy topic of conversation nationally. This is largely due to Anna Quindlen’s Newsweek article, How Much Jail Time?, in which she addresses … Read More