As the national debate continues over a bill in the Virginia state legislature allowing women a chance to see the ultrasound that abortion centers typically perform before an abortion, pro-life advocates say those ultrasounds are medically necessary when the abortion drug is used. By arguing that ultrasounds aren’t needed before an abortion or that they [...]

The White House has indicated Obama administration officials will meet with religious employers over the controversial mandate that requires them to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for their employees. Meanwhile, 70,000 Americans have signaled they want the mandate revered. As The Hill reports: A White House official said the administration [...]

A new national poll Rasmussen Reports conducted finds Americans oppose the Obama administration mandate requiring religious employers to pay for coverage for birth control (which also includes drugs that may cause early abortions). The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds 38 percent of likely voters think health insurance companies should be required by law [...]

Abortion advocates in Virginia have come under heavy criticism for equating the ultrasound legislation there would allow women to see before an abortion to rape.  Yet, while abortion backers say having an ultrasound is like getting raped, a 2003 study shows 99% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities do them beforehand. Published in the medical journal [...]

It’s Day 1 and 40 Days for Life is off to a fast start! I have spoken at kickoff events in three cities. Our national director, David Bereit is speaking in College Station, Texas tonight to launch the 10th campaign there since he and I led the first-ever 40 Days for Life in 2004. Be [...]

Pro-life organizations continue to push for the Blunt amendment to be adopted when the Senate returns from its recess to stop the new Obama mandate that forces religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions. Roy Blunt, a pro-life Republican senator from Missouri, is behind the amendment and he tells [...]

When many people think about Planned Parenthood, they think about death: especially the 330,000 deaths the nation’s largest abortion provider wrought via their scalpels, syringes, and vacuum devices last year. Others think of the abortion mammoth’s tacit support of gender-based abortions or their current efforts to export their death machine to Africa. But too few [...]

Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist,is well known for his 2008 article in the New Republic titled “The Stupidity of Dignity.” ThePresident’s Council on Bioethics, in its Human Dignity and Bioethics, had underscored the importance of dignity in contemporary ethical discussion, and Pinker wanted to reject it wholesale. Pinker criticizes the use of dignity for a [...]

The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has launched a new campaign ad that attacks pro-life Republican hopeful Rick Santorum and falsely claims Santorum supports funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The ad lists different funding measures Santorum supported as a member of the Senate and makes the claim that, by voting for an [...]

The Obama administration seems to have a new motto: “don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Or maybe that has been their motto all along. Either way, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to the United States only solidified this impression. The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party has selected Xi to become China’s [...]

The Planned Parenthood abortion business has crated a firestorm of criticism for itself by making the wild-eyed claim that allowing women in Virginia a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child before the abortion is akin to rape. However, new information has surfaced showing the abortion business already does pre-abortion ultrasounds on women [...]

If you are around young children very often, you’re probably familiar with the Olivia the Pig series. My niece loves those books. But you’re probably not as familiar with Oliver the Egg. Let me tell you about him. [...]

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Many are familiar with the beginning of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous poem, but there is a lesser known line which relates perfectly to the current crisis of the recent HHS mandate: “I love thee freely, as men strive for Right.” In this line, Browning recognized [...]