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.