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 | 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 | 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...

Posted by lynne | Mar 14th, 2010

Video with powerful pro-life message: please vote

I’ve been thinking about developing some pro-life videos for lifeminded.org and just came across this one done in Spanish with English subtitles. I think the message is clear and powerful and am considering making one like it in English and using iconic Americans to tell the same story. But before I do, I’d like to get some feedback from others. Please tell me how effective/ineffective you think this...

Posted by lynne | Mar 12th, 2010

Are you following the healthcare reform debate regarding tax payer funded abortions?

Pro choice Democrats are claiming that pro life Democrats like Bart Stupak, are making a straw man claim about tax payer funded abortion. Pro choice Dems are insisting that the current health care reform bill will not allow any federal funds to go toward abortion (whether in abortion services or insurance policies that cover abortion) and therefore, the Stupak Amendment (which would ensure this) is completely...

Posted by lynne | Mar 6th, 2010

Tax-payer funded abortion: Setting the record straight on the Stupak Amendment

As usual, there is a lot of misinformation flying around about the Stupak Amendment, so I went straight to the source to find out what the amendment actually says and does. Here are direct quotes from Rep. Stupak: “Under the amendment, individuals receiving federal subsidies for health care coverage are prohibited from using those subsidies to pay for abortions or to purchase insurance policies that cover...

Posted by lynne | Feb 24th, 2010

If you don’t like abortion…then don’t have one

Ever heard this from pro-choice advocates? It seems like abortion advocates assume that right and wrong is different for different people. This assumption manifests itself in statements like, “You have your truth; I have my truth. Therefore, we should be tolerant of all views. Maybe abortion is wrong for you, but it might be right for others.” This flaw turns the pro-life moral claim about abortion (“Abortion...

Posted by lynne | Feb 11th, 2010

Abortion: the Antidote for Child Abuse

I was recently talking to a pro-choice friend of mine about the Tim Tebow ad. After expressing how hypocritical I thought it was of the so-called women’s advocacy groups to be so negative about Pam’s “choice” to not have an abortion (see my post “Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad = Free Speech”), and after graciously listening to me for a little while, my friend responded by saying,...