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Nothing quite gives a pro-life activist the opportunity to find out where our culture is at and how wounded it is as being out on the streets, discussing abortion with our generational counterparts. The first thing that always strikes me is how…

H.R. 1797 -- The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act pending in Congress -- as amended on June 14, 2013, now has a rape and incest exception -- as if children conceived in rape are such mutants that we are incapable of feeling pain. 

Well,…

The New York Times Magazine has published a fawning article about an ongoing research project, sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco, about women who sought abortions but were unable to obtain them because of the gestational age…

To the surprise of exactly no one, Planned Parenthod President Cecile Richards is thrilled that so-called emergency contraception (hereafter:EC) is now available over-the-counter with no age restrictions.

This means that 16 year old girls (and…

Earlier this week, I was asked on a radio program what I as a pro-life activist had to say about Father’s Day. My answer was simple: Where are all the fathers?

In today’s hookup culture, the dynamics of so-called “choice” (and, for that matter,…

As I reported here previously, Quebec will be debating the legalization of euthanasia–not assisted suicide–a bill that does not limit medicalized killing to dying patients.

But don’t tell that to so-called journalists, who are busily about the…

An Australian journalist and TV personality who is campaigning for legal euthanasia has penned an emotional open letter to her deceased mother in which she describes how close she came to killing her by smothering her with a pillow, and apologizes…

An autistic teenager was murdered by his mother to “end his suffering. From the CBS Chicago story:

Cook County prosecutors said a west suburban woman and family caregiver planned for at least a week to kill the mother’s 14-year-old son,…

Two Glasgow midwives, who won a landmark legal battle to avoid taking any part in abortion procedures, may now have to return to court.

Last April appeal judges ruled that the right of Mary Doogan and Concepta Wood (pictured) to conscientious…

In December 2010 Planned Parenthood ordered all its affiliates to begin offering abortions at a minimum of one clinic location by the beginning of 2013.

At the time the number of Planned Parenthood affiliates stood at 87, far below their…

When confronted with an uncomfortable issue—and one which people have very strong views on—people often try to find a middle road, a way of agreeing with everyone, or at least not angering them. If those people are politicians, they’re often as…