Terms like “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are automatically polarizing. The moment you choose to share your beliefs about abortion with another is often the moment they stop listening. The issue has been hashed and rehashed. It’s all too easy to forget that we are talking to real people. Many of the very women we speak with…
Terms like “pro-life” and “pro-choice” are automatically polarizing. The moment you choose to share your beliefs about abortion with another is often the moment they stop listening. The issue has been hashed and rehashed. It’s all too easy to forget that we are talking to real people. Many of the very women we speak with…
Xavier Symons, writing for BioEdge, a news website that focuses on bioethics, wrote an article about ectogenesis. Ectogenesis refers to a human embryo or fetus developing in an artificial environment outside of the woman’s uterus. Scientists recently kept premature lamb fetuses alive in an artificial environment, so hopes are high that they can eventually develop artificial…
Live Action News — Yesterday, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California Berkeley, with protesters and security gathered outside. Inside, an interesting interaction occurred between Shapiro and a pro-abortion student during the event’s Q&A, in which the student asked, “Why, exactly, do you think a first-trimester fetus has moral value?” Shapiro answered: A first-trimester fetus…
In my book Why ProLife? I say that every argument for abortion which appeals to a woman’s inconvenience, stress, and financial hardship can be made just as persuasively about her two-month-old, her two-year-old, her teenager, her husband, or her parents. In many cases older children are more expensive and place greater demands on their mother than an…
This article was originally published by Roland C. Waren on Care Net’s Abundant Life blog on June 20, 2017. Awhile back, I wrote a post titled, “Knowing when human life begins – it’s in our pay grade” that addressed Pastor Rick Warren’s conversation with then presidential candidate Barack Obama about his abortion position. A central point of my argument…
This article was written by Sean McDowell The question of abortion in cases of rape is one of the most difficult and sensitive issues to address. The unborn is a human being with intrinsic value and worth, and yet the mother has been violated in the most profound way. Our hearts should be broken that…