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The religious left feels left out. According to an article in The New York Times, liberal clergy feel excluded from the political arena and blame the religious right for occupying what they once believed was their exclusive territory. They are, according to the story’s headline, “seeking to break right’s grip on nation’s moral agenda.” I wasn’t aware the nation had a moral agenda. An immoral one, perhaps. The religious left’s agenda is little different from that of secular progressives — from gay rights, to sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants, bigger government and tax increases, abortion. Some on the religious left...

Congressman Steve Scalise, a top pro-life Republican in the House of Representatives, was injured today when a gunman opened fire on a group of Congressional Republicans practicing for the annual Congressional softball game. The gunman wounded both the Republican lawmaker as well as other people. Scalise was shot in the hip and several Capitol police officers were also victims of the shooting. Because he is part of the Republican leadership, Scalise has protection from the US Capitol Police. One of those members — who was injured himself — ultimately shot the gunman, who is now in captivity. Five people were...

Abortion activists dressed up in costumes from the dystopian show “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Tuesday to protest an Ohio bill that would protect unborn babies from brutal dismemberment abortions. Wearing red robes and white bonnets, abortion activists with the radical pro-abortion group NARAL sat silently during a Tuesday hearing about the bill, the BBC reports. Their silent protest compared abortion regulations to enslaving women, the central plot of the “Handmaid” series based on a novel by Margaret Atwood. In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” only a few women are fertile; those who are able to conceive are enslaved and forced to bear...

Nigel Biggar has said: 'It’s not clear that a human foetus is the same kind of thing as an adult'Pope Francis has appointed 45 new ordinary members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, according to a statement on the Vatican website. They include Nigel Biggar, who has said that he thinks the limit for legal abortion should be 18 weeks. In a dialogue with fellow philosopher Peter Singer in 2011, reported by Standpoint magazine, Biggar said: “I would be inclined to draw the line for abortion at 18 weeks after conception, which is roughly about the earliest time when there...

A double-gold Olympic medalist claims every female track-and-field athlete she knows has had an abortion. The Jamaican-American athlete revealed in her new book that she herself had an abortion - just one day before leaving for the Beijing Games in the summer of 2008.

(Sacramento, CA) – Planned Parenthood Northern California is set to close three locations, including Vacaville, Pittsburg, and central Richmond, on June 30, according to local pro-life leaders and confirmed by a Planned Parenthood spokesperson. Abortions through 10 weeks of pregnancy, using the Abortion Pill, were done at these three northern California Planned Parenthood locations. Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger who was a fervent supporter of the Eugenics movement – which sought to reduce the number “unfit” people (as Sanger called them) including most minority racial groups.

The pro-life movement receives a significant amount of criticism from pundits and commentators for not being more supportive of contraception and sex-education programs. Most pro-lifers respond by saying that any gains in contraception use will likely be offset by increases in sexual activity. This will actually result in both more unintended pregnancies and more abortions. A strong body of empirical evidence bolsters these arguments. For instance, last week the Journal of Health Economics published a study by British academics David Paton and Liam Wright. It found that recent budget cuts in Great Britain’s sex-education program were correlated with statistically significant...

Early Options, an abortion facility in New York, has a fancy website featuring happy couples embracing. The facility advertises something it calls the “Soft Touch” method of abortion, which is a suction aspiration abortion using a hand-held syringe. In this type of abortion, a tube attached to a syringe is inserted into the woman’s uterus, and the abortionist manually creates the suction by pumping the syringe. This pulls apart the preborn child, forcing her, often in pieces, from the woman’s body. The abortion facility calls this type of abortion “noninvasive” and “natural.” There is, of course, nothing natural about inserting...

A new Marie Claire article blames pro-life Christians for being the ones behind the effort to defund and shut down the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood. Pro-life Christians may take this as a compliment, but author Laura Kasinof does her best to keep pro-lifers – particularly evangelical Christian pro-lifers – from thinking that they are succeeding. Kasinof uses several personal stories, along with statistics, to show that evangelical Christian women are using Planned Parenthood and aborting their unborn babies, despite the wide-spread opposition to abortion among evangelicals. Kasinof painted the abortion chain as a savior for these women –...

Celebrities keep using the red carpet to promote a group that sheds more innocent blood through abortion than any other group in the United States. On Sunday at the Tony Awards, several stars wore pins and ribbons to show their support of the Planned Parenthood abortion chain and the pro-abortion American Civil Liberties Union. The two groups often work together to challenge laws that protect unborn babies and moms from abortion. Variety reports “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill wore a blue ribbon to support the ACLU, while Hollywood icon Sally Field, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star Rachel Bloom and actress Olivia Wilde...

On June 11, 2015, Women's Med Center in Dayton, Ohio committed an abortion on a woman who was unable to consent. According to a state report—which did not become public until last year—the woman (identified only as "Patient #1") was unable to hold a coherent conversation or even lift her head. Her speech was slurred, and according to the person who gave her a ride to the center, she "took two Soma and several Percocet and probably both Suboxone and perhaps some heroin on the way in." She was described as "semi-conscious with low blood pressure." Women's Med Center dutifully...

Open Your Eyes People! What Planned Parenthood is teaching your children in Public Schools! ****WARNING GRAPHIC***

FULL TITLE: Abortion Almost Destroyed Her Until She Found Forgiveness in Christ: “It’s a Scarlet Letter I Never Thought I’d Wear” It’s not every day that the truth about abortion is revealed in the pages of People magazine so it’s worth taking note when it happens. Using excerpts from her memoir, Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me About God and Life People reported that Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross had an abortion a day before flying to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. The excerpts make it very clear that the abortion decision is one she and her...

A birth control packaging mix-up could lead to unintended pregnancies. Lupin Pharmaceuticals recently announced a recall of Mibelas 24 Fe (Norethindrone Acetate and Ethinyl Estradiol 1 mg/0.02 mg chewable and ferrous fumarate 75 mg) tablets.

Deja Foxx, a young woman from Arizona, is being touted as the new face of the abortion chain Planned Parenthood. The teen first caught abortion activists’ attention earlier this year when she criticized pro-life Arizona U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake during a town hall meeting. Abortion advocacy groups and liberal media outlets painted the young teen as a heroine for speaking out so boldly in favor of the abortion chain. This week, the Washington Post profiled Foxx and described her as the “new face of Planned Parenthood.” Foxx explained how she grew up in a low-income neighborhood with a mother who...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the parents of sick baby Charlie Gard, over plans to take him to the US for treatment. Chris Gard and Connie Yates want the 10-month old, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, to undergo a therapy trial. His mother broke down and screamed as the decision was announced. Charlie can stay on life support for 24 hours to give the European Court of Human Rights a chance to give a ruling. He has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October last year. The hospital said therapy proposed...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG TV-9) -- Parents in Iowa can sue for wrongful birth. That first of its kind ruling from the Iowa Supreme Court is stirring up emotions in the abortion debate. Parents in Lee County filed a lawsuit against a Fort Madison hospital and with a gynecologist clinic. They say doctors failed to warn them about abnormalities on their child's ultrasound. Those abnormalities that might have prompted the parents to get an abortion. The case centers on a now 6 year old boy who was born with cerebral palsy and other disabilities that make it unlikely he'll ever walk...

Britain’s leading provider of abortion services has said that requiring a father’s consent before an abortion is carried out is “not desirable”, and that abortion should be “fully tax-payer funded”. In the run-up to the general election next week the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has been lobbying Parliamentary candidates to sign up to its “My Pledge, Her Choice” campaign, calling on candidates to protect clinic access and funding for British women, oppose “parliamentary attacks” on abortion rights and support further moves to decriminalise abortion. But in response to a UKIP candidate’s offer to support the pledge as long as it...

Washington state teen Maddy Rasmussen has been involved in abortion advocacy for years. So, when it came time to plan her senior high school project, Rasmussen decided to create a website to help people who want to abort their unborn babies. A graduating senior, Rasmussen recently launched her website, “The Safe Place Project,” which lists every abortion clinic in the country, the Waterland Blog reports. The site also tells women if their state has a mandatory waiting period, informed consent and parental involvement requirements for minors. “My ultimate goal for this project was for it to be a safe place...

The Fourteenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1868, declares that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” A debate that has been raging in courtrooms for years is whether the “life” part includes unborn persons. Harvard Law student Joshua Craddock did some constitutional soul searching to answer that question in a new report for the Harvard Law Journal, concluding that unborn babies do fall under the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections. One might look to dictionaries of legal and common usage, the context...