Repudiation of Human Rights Must End
In the wake of the recent Mississippi personhood vote, commentators on both sides of the question appear to be unified in a peculiar way.
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American Life League Statement on Defeat of Mississippi Personhood Amendment
The results of the election in Mississippi are now clear. We are saddened that the good citizens of this fine state have rejected efforts to grant basic human rights to preborn human beings.
The Problem with Half-Truths and IVF
Over the past couple of years a great many shocking facts have emerged about the inherent dangers associated with “reproductive technology,” including and most specifically in vitro fertilization.
The Pill: Demanding Honesty Leads to Justice
The fascinating thing about anonymous blog posts is that they frequently provide profound insight while protecting the anonymity of the writer.
‘Abortion’ May Not Be What You Think
The definitions of the terms used in a discussion can and do change the outcome. The political maxim, “He who frames the issue wins the debate” applies in many situations including how the public views what abortion is and why it is either legitimate or illicit.
Irving Response to Mississippi ‘Personhood’ Initiative
Pro-life deserves to know that formal legal definitions, such as those proposed here, are usually legally required to be interpreted by the courts as “exclusionary”—that is, only precisely what is included in the definition is covered by the law; anything not precisely included in that definition is not covered by the law.
Ignoring Human Rights Has Become the American Way
The headline, “Outcry in America as Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Murder Charges,” speaks volumes about the lengths that some will pursue to express misplaced outrage for the sole purpose of defending the reproductive rights of women.
Intellectually Sabotaging Human Persons
Sometimes a writer will say things that are so outlandish that even my grandmother, God rest her soul, would have been angry.
Myopic Zeal in an Honest World
When I first read Toni Panetta’s rant against elected officials’ “myopic zeal to eliminate women’s ability to access abortion” I was struck with her talent for using words in a way that deconstructs actual facts about the human body and the ability of a woman to become pregnant and carry a child.
Baby Steps to Truth
Encouragement comes about in all sorts of ways, the traditional and the nontraditional—including postings on Facebook pages, videos on YouTube and through many other venues that just a few short years ago were unheard of. Imagine, for example, “tweeting” a friendly greeting ten years ago. Nobody would have known what you were talking about.
Philadelphia 1787
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
A Person Is a Person–No Matter What the Politics Dictate
Personhood has been the cornerstone of American Life League’s mission since its founding in April of 1979. At that time we used the word “conception” to define the beginning of a human being’s life.