Posted by lynne | Jan 19th, 2012

What are you doing on January 22nd? (hint: the 39th anniversary of Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton)

March for Life in Washington DC I just wanted to encourage everyone who supports the sanctity of life to get involved in some way on this saddest of days. There are many opportunities: marches, rallies, prayer vigils, etc. It’s important that every life minded person show their solidarity for this cause on a day when we basically have the microphone (the issue gets national and local attention). If you live in...

Posted by lynne | Aug 12th, 2011

Do you know Roe?

                Apparently, many Americans do not know what Roe v Wade actually did. I just read an article posted on the Right to Life of Michigan Blog discussing the results of a July 2011 National Gallup Poll showing: 87 percent of respondents favored laws requiring doctors to tell women about the possible risks of abortion 71 percent favored parental consent laws 69...

Posted by lynne | Jul 7th, 2011

Keep the conversation going

Speak out against abortion No one really wants to think about abortion, much less talk about it. And because so few are talking about, it’s that much easier to forget. As someone who hates to be confrontational and is a peace maker by nature, I totally get it. It’s hard to bring up an unpleasant and controversial topic. But we must keep the conversation going if we ever hope to influence hearts and...

Posted by lynne | May 7th, 2011

The Problem

The Problem we face is that the word abortion has lost almost all of its meaning for most Americans, but there is a way to restore it. There are three reasons the word abortion has lost its meaning in our culture: First, because we think and learn visually with pictures and images. Pictures influence us by stirring our emotions and of course this profoundly affects how we resolve moral issues. And this by the way...

Posted by lynne | Mar 16th, 2011

An Overview of Abortion in Five Minutes

I recently discovered a new video produced by abort73.org, which is an excellent pro-life website geared toward high school and college students.  I think this video is going to be a really useful tool for pro-lifer’s like us because it is a more balanced approach to abortion graphics than some of its predecessors (i.e. “Harder Truth”, etc.). It  contains some of the beautiful images of fetal...

Posted by lynne | Aug 1st, 2010

What is the unborn? A blob of tissue or a human being?

When you get right down to it, “what is the unborn?” is the only question that really matters in the debate over abortion. If what is being aborted is nothing more than a blob of tissue, then abortion is the moral equivalent of pulling a tooth and no justification is necessary. But, if the unborn is a living, developing human being (the smallest, most helpless and most innocent among us), then abortion...

Posted by lynne | May 24th, 2010

“If you don’t save the mother you aren’t going to save the baby!

The phone rang at the Frontline EMC Pregnancy Center in Brooklyn, NY, this week, and the director assumed it was another call from a woman needing crisis pregnancy counseling. This phone call stopped the clinic director in her tracks. It was a credit card company who was excited about the new health law. “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” Linda Marzulla, director of the EMC Pregnancy Center in...

Posted by lynne | Apr 13th, 2010

Men shouldn’t have a say about abortion…What?

“Men shouldn’t have anything to say about abortion – it’s a woman’s issue.” This ad hominem attack ignores the issue of abortion and attacks the gender of the pro-lifer.  This attack is hardly relevant, since arguments and ideas don’t have sexual organs. Gender has nothing to do with the validity of an argument. This reply, usually heard from the most militant and out of touch...

Posted by lynne | Mar 29th, 2010

It is only a potential life

Pro-abortionists commonly dehumanize the unborn in order to justify abortion by referring to the unborn as a “potential life.” But calling an unborn child a “potential life” is just a clever rhetorical trick. There is no such thing as a “potential life.” There are two options. First, we can potentially create life, that is, create a potential for life. When a man and a woman get married and have sex,...

Posted by lynne | Mar 18th, 2010

Abortion is Not Health Care

Women in the US can terminate their pregnancy at any time during the usual nine months of fetal development–for any reason–or no reason at all. Often, pro-choice proponents say that abortion must be kept legal because of all the cases where the mother’s life is in danger. But did you know, according to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, only 6% of the 1.37 million abortions occurring annually in...