Pro-Life

February 24, 2024

Sunny Side of The Stream: Lawmakers in Four States Consider Laws That Would Show Fetal Development Video in Classrooms

By Aliya Kuykendall, The Stream - “Baby Olivia” is an educational animated video illustrating human development from fertilization until the point that a baby is ready to be born. Live Action, a pro-life advocacy group, made the three-minute video. This video, or ones like it, may soon be shown in classrooms in several states... “The Baby Olivia project provides a medically accurate, animated glimpse of human life from the moment of fertilization. The story details her growth as she progresses from one developmental stage to the next..."

February 24, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker: “All Human Beings Bear God’s Image From the Moment of Conception”, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker issued the following concurring opinion in a case last week that ruled 8-1 that unborn children are human beings and the state’s wrongful death law can include them when it comes to destroying human embryos at an IVF fertility clinic... A good judge follows the Constitution instead of policy, except when the Constitution itself commands the judge to follow a certain policy. In these cases, that means upholding the sanctity of unborn life, including unborn life that exists outside the womb.

February 22, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Rules Human Embryos are Human Beings With Human Rights, by Joshua Mercer

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled Friday that frozen human embryos conceived in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children, with human rights under state law... In the court’s opinion, Justice Jay Mitchell cited the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. He wrote that the state law “applies to all children, born and unborn, without limitation” and “regardless of their location.”

February 22, 2024

RARE: NBC News Actually Airs Personal Regret Over Abortion, by Jorge Bonilla

By Jorge Bonilla, Newsbusters - On the one hand, Amy Brown’s expression of regret is more fully captured in the written piece albeit, as noted by the great Mary Margaret Olohan, buried in its 27th paragraph: “I could tell that Sam understood that this hurt, and that it was a very difficult decision, and that it was one that I regretted,” she said. Amy said she initially thought that having an abortion would bring her “freedom” but she instead was filled with remorse over the decision and wished she would have considered other options. “I could tell that he got it and that he felt my pain.”