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.
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.
“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.”
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.
“We are honored today,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League, “to speak out in a public forum in support of legal recognition of the personhood of preborn human beings.”
Catholics celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception, commemorating the fact that the Blessed Mother was conceived without sin in her mother Annas womb.
On January 24, 2011, a group of over 60 students and staff members from Saint Michael the Archangel High School (SMHS) in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia,… Read More »St. Michael the Archangel High School Carries ‘Personhood Now!’ Banner
Just as the New Year was getting under way, I heard a sermon by a priest named Father John on a subject that invited further reflection.
The problem of past decades has always been in defining abortion within a political framework. In 2011, we should define it in terms of human… Read More »Human Personhood v. Conflict of Interest
Planned Parenthood and the Alan Guttmacher Institute have ramped up their attack on minorities under the battle cry “disparities in health care” reported in the October 27, 2010 Wednesday STOPP Report.
What is it about preborn children that brings out the worst in folks? If we knew the correct answer to that question, we would have achieved a meaningful victory for these babies long ago.
Washington, D.C. (22 October 2010) – After facing down months of criticism leading up to her pro-life television commercial during the 2010 Super Bowl, Pam Tebow,… Read More »After Super Bowl, Tebow Mom Still Fighting for Human Rights with Personhood Endorsement