Pro-Life News - Public OpinionNews & Headlines from the Pro-Life Front Lines2024-03-22T03:13:33-04:00urn:md5:80553d5cf9619009328d3f4b69521dd9DotclearBaby Olivia Makes Clear What Radicals Want to Hideurn:md5:01662e191c2e16d3caf6e1f83f1d0fc52024-03-08T10:49:00-05:002024-03-08T11:49:04-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion Would young women be less likely to engage in sexual relations or abort their baby if they first saw colorful images of a child developing in the womb? Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, thinks so – and the highly effective pro-life organization is working tirelessly to make it a reality. "Baby Olivia" is a computer-generated preborn child starring in a stunning three-minute animated video that's being made available to public schools. Despite how abortion radicals might qualify it, the piece is scientifically and factually based. <B><a href="https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/baby-olivia-makes-clear-what-radicals-want-to-hide-and-ignore/">Read more...</A></B></p>Is The Pro-Life Argument Losing Steam?urn:md5:da1f5011c4a559b694c42e167f9782072024-02-22T00:17:00-05:002024-02-22T01:17:58-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion In his book, <I>The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture</I>, leading pro-life apologist Scott Klusendorf writes, "The question of truth and of human value are driving our national debates on abortion, cloning, and embryonic stem cell research (ESCR)." Klusendorf goes on to say, "The debates are contentious because they involve deep worldview commitments that get to the heart of who and what we are as people. But the debate itself is not complex. Either you believe that each and every human being has an equal right to life or you don't." <B><a href="https://www.christianpost.com/voices/is-the-pro-life-argument-losing-steam.html">Read more...</A></B></p>Leftists Are Mad Texas' Law Saved Thousands Of Nonwhite Babiesurn:md5:97b8a7acdc9668d8ea031a21389578ca2024-02-21T11:20:00-05:002024-02-21T12:20:57-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion A new report finds that there were more than 16,000 additional births in Texas in 2022 — more than 13,000 of them to Hispanic women — and wrongly concludes that the state's Heartbeat Act helped drive an increase in Hispanic children and prevented what would have been a further decline in black and white births. The report, by the University of Houston's Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, notes that Hispanic women were "especially affected" by the pro-life law and face "more challenges" in accessing "abortion." The community, the lead author said, should discuss "how this affects individuals." <B><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/20/pro-abortion-leftists-are-mad-that-texas-heartbeat-law-saved-thousands-of-nonwhite-babies/">Read more...</A></B></p>Will Pro-Lifers Talk About the HEK293 Issue?urn:md5:28fd4c97ef5079a6bbb0d8528e3b47822024-02-13T00:03:00-05:002024-02-13T01:03:50-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion Until the Catholic Church is committed to upholding the Magisterial teaching; Catholic philanthropists, business leaders, and hospital corporations take a more proactive role in ethical medical research; and pro-life organizations begin educating about and supporting this integral anti-abortion cause, this problem will continue to grow unchecked for all stakeholders. The pro-life movement should not restrict itself solely to ending the act of abortion, but should proactively work to end the exploitation of abortion in biotechnology. <B><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/12/this-one-abortion-story-changed-medicine-forever-but-pro-lifers-hardly-talk-about-it/">Read more...</A></B></p>Two-Thirds of Americans Support Some Abortion Restrictionsurn:md5:da4128dcbecce1ce2d3b919f04242edd2024-01-18T23:40:00-05:002024-01-19T00:40:56-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion About two-thirds of Americans support some level of government restrictions on abortion, according to a recent poll released by the Knights of Columbus. The poll, which the Knights conducted with Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College, found that 66% of Americans believe that "limits should be placed on when abortion is allowed" and only 33% believe that "abortion should be allowed without any limits" when given the two options. <B><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256572/knights-of-columbus-poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-some-abortion-restrictions">Read more...</A></B></p>How Do You Convince the Other Side Baby Killing Is Bad?urn:md5:d48ad41ff4a4140bff4d24a2015918312023-11-08T23:56:00-05:002023-11-09T00:56:40-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion Among staunch pro-life activists, however, the only fear expressed after Ohio ballot Issue 1 passed was for the abortion supporters who hugged each other and wildly cheered its passage. "The sound of cheering the right to dismember and mutilate infants in the womb is the sound of hell," Sean Feucht, a Christian singer/evangelist, reacted in a Twitter post. "Only a demonic people," he wrote, "would join in this celebration." <B><a href="https://afn.net/pro-life/2023/11/08/pro-lifers-open-to-new-strategy-after-ohio-loss-but-how-do-you-convince-other-side-baby-killing-is-bad/">Read more...</A></B></p>The Pro-Life Movement's Achilles' Heelurn:md5:df28668224a0c9406c5657f4b45bd89d2023-10-25T23:57:00-04:002023-10-25T23:57:35-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion The state-level battles over abortion are exposing what decades of a widespread contraceptive mentality has done to the spiritual state of our nation. Our collective conscience, even that of many socially conservative and religious people, has been dulled to the point of accepting abortion as a necessary evil. This situation should serve as a wake-up call to those who desire to protect the dignity of all human life. <B><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/the-pro-life-movement-s-achilles-heel">Read more...</A></B></p>Ohio Pro-Lifers Confront Abortion Radicalismurn:md5:79d05b4ae0a9094b537e93ab624691072023-10-16T20:21:00-04:002023-10-16T20:21:47-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion One record looms large for Ohio pro-life activists: oh-and-six. That figure represents the fate of their cause in voter-decided state ballot initiatives since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022. It includes both failed pro-life initiatives and, as in neighboring Michigan, successful pro-abortion ones. As Ohio prepares to vote this November on Issue 1, a pro-abortion constitutional-amendment initiative, that oh-for-six record underscores the challenge pro-lifers face. They are up against a well-resourced pro-amendment campaign. <B><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/11/will-ohio-enshrine-a-right-to-abortion/">Read more...</A></B></p>Wounded Women: The Consequences of 'Choice'urn:md5:3c975a13d4c3583ad1ea6a9a491af7cd2023-10-12T21:18:00-04:002023-10-12T21:18:15-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion Evidence undermines the pro-abortion utilitarian’s claim that abortion benefits women overall, increasing their happiness and well-being. On the contrary, abortion often results in physical complications (especially following medically unsupervised chemical abortion), mental health complications, future pregnancy complications, and the tragic loss of a child most women would have preferred to give birth to had they not been pressured, coerced, or lacked the support necessary to follow through with the pregnancy. It should also be noted that there is some evidence, particularly from Eastern Europe, that when abortion restrictions are enacted promiscuous behavior declines, effective contraceptive use increases, and unintended pregnancies decline—all of which might help lead to fewer abortions overall, and so fewer of the attendant harms to women. <B><a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/wounded-women-the-consequences-of-choice/">Read more...</A></B></p>Biden's Justice Department Unjustly Persecutes Pro-Life Activistsurn:md5:ef02298f8cd05b85a8dcd7ff6a846a7a2023-09-15T00:10:00-04:002023-09-15T00:10:53-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion Facing over 10 years in federal prison, Lauren Handy, Will Goodman, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty are currently detained in prison without bail as they await sentencing. This trial was a sham and made a mockery of our justice system. These activists are heroes who used nonviolent direct action to strive for justice, and the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has acted capriciously and illegitimately. For justice to prevail, this decision must be appealed and overturned, Congress must conduct vigorous oversight of the DOJ, and ultimately, the FACE Act must be repealed. <B><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-justice-department-unjustly-persecutes-pro-life-activists-opinion-1826469">Read more...</A></B></p>On Abortion, How Do We Get to Unthinkable?urn:md5:da8b0dee6197b358b82d214a84b729002023-08-18T19:54:00-04:002023-08-18T19:54:07-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion After more than five decades of legal abortion, the majority of Americans no longer recoil in revulsion at the very idea of killing unborn babies in their own mothers' wombs. Unfortunately, for far too long, courtesy of the flawed Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that Dobbs overturned in June 2022, Americans were taught that abortion is a protected constitutional right, not a deadly and horrifying legal and human travesty. So, for the pro-life movement, the central question going forward must be this one: How do we get back to unthinkable, when it comes to abortion? <B><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/abortion-unthinkable">Read more...</A></B></p>Demi Lovato’s Vulgar New Pro-Abortion Song Is ‘Evil,’ ‘Demonic'urn:md5:eb7e36ccb752e650b06d3f01a6afcfac2023-07-06T20:41:00-04:002023-07-06T20:41:23-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion Pop superstar Demi Lovato has received pushback online from several influential pro-life commenters for her new crass pro-abortion anthem titled "Swine." The profanity-filled song and accompanying music video was released late last month on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe V. Wade, ruling that the U.S. Constitution doesn't confer a right to abortion. The 30-year-old former Disney star, who goes by they/them pronouns, compared women who get abortions to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials. <B><a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/demi-lovatos-pro-abortion-song-is-evil-demonic-pro-lifers.html">Read more...</A></B></p>Gallup Poll Shows Gain in Pro-Life Sentimenturn:md5:d5591cd231933c8570487ecc3047f9982023-06-14T22:49:00-04:002023-06-14T22:49:52-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion Gallup released the results of the abortion questions that were included in their annual Values and Beliefs Survey. Overall, the results contain some good news for pro-lifers. The findings indicate that 41 percent of Americans identify as "pro-life." This is an increase of four percentage points from last year's Gallup poll. Additionally, since last year the percentage of Americans who felt that abortion was "morally wrong" increased from 38 percent to 41 percent. <B><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-new-gallup-poll-shows-gain-in-pro-life-sentiment/">Read more...</A></B></p>Abortion and The Inconvenient Truthurn:md5:94932c80b4ef6017588406353bd167292023-06-07T23:58:00-04:002023-06-07T23:58:20-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion With the compliance and funding of the US government, the multi-billion-dollar abortion industry killed over 63 million babies in 50 years. Babies were dismembered alive. Saline injections melted tiny bodies. They were stabbed in the brain with scissors during partial-birth abortions. Sixty-three million babies have suffered and died since 1972, all legally. Whether pro-life or pro-abortion, any rational person would ask, "Shouldn't we question anything that kills 63 million people?" <B><a href="https://www.christianpost.com/voices/abortion-and-the-inconvenient-truth.html">Read more...</A></B></p>How Illinois Is Being Held Hostage by Abortion Rights Extremistsurn:md5:cfeea5259d604d3d89b8c72335274afc2023-05-08T19:39:00-04:002023-05-08T19:39:50-04:00System AdminPublic Opinion State leaders are out of touch with the majority of voters. They have moved away from abortion being “safe, legal and rare” to embracing an agenda that suppresses choice. After expanding taxpayer-funded abortions and recklessly ending parental notification, the General Assembly recently removed medical safeguards and legal accountability for abortion clinics and providers — making abortion less safe. <B><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/5/8/23713044/illinois-abortion-pro-choice-pro-life-springfield-pregnancy-care-centers-bill-hauter-op-ed">Read more...</A></B></p>AP Stylebook Calls Crisis Pregnancy Centers 'Anti-Abortion Centers'urn:md5:1fafc8967b1c2dffa4baceefa9dab23e2023-02-04T10:06:00-05:002023-02-04T11:06:08-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion The Associated Press added an entry to its style guide directing journalists to put the term "crisis pregnancy center" in scare-quotes, and to use "anti-abortion center" instead, to convey that "the centers' general aim is to prevent abortions." The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022. The guide describes the centers as "set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions" and warns writers against "potentially misleading terms" like "pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers." <B><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/03/disgraceful-associated-press-directs-journalists-use-crisis-pregnancy-center-new-abortion-guidance/">Read more...</A></B></p>A New Poll Shows Strong Support for Pro-Life Policiesurn:md5:447a7bf3bd10425b5fae611ee3070f972023-01-18T17:20:00-05:002023-01-18T18:20:42-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion The Knights of Columbus released the results of their annual Marist poll on sanctity-of-life issues. They surveyed 1025 adults between January 6 and January 9 of this year. Unlike many other abortion surveys, they ask questions about a wide range of abortion policies. These Knights of Columbus polls usually find very strong public support for incremental pro-life laws. This year's poll is no exception. It found very strong opposition to both abortion on demand and taxpayer funding for abortion. <B><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-new-knights-of-columbus-poll-shows-strong-support-for-pro-life-policies/">Read more...</A></B></p>Tennesseans Misunderstand Abortion Law, Want Exceptionsurn:md5:7a7beabad63e7f98c7f1b0a19b9038f32022-12-14T18:07:00-05:002022-12-14T19:07:42-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion Most registered voters in Tennessee want exceptions for rape or incest in the state's sweeping abortion ban, but they largely don't know the specifics of what's in the law as it stands today, according to new Vanderbilt University polling. The disconnect comes in a state that votes consistently for Republicans and has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Three out of four people polled think that abortion should be legal if the pregnancy results from rape or incest, an exception that doesn't exist in current law. <B><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/tennesseans-misunderstand-abortion-law-exceptions-95226038">Read more...</A></B></p>AP Stylebook Says Don't Use 'Pro-Life' or 'Pro-Choice'urn:md5:2af7820dd33762752a7c6b9c7c7c033f2022-12-08T16:50:00-05:002022-12-08T17:50:09-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion Replacing the term "pro-choice" and "pro-abortion" with "abortion-rights" inaccurately implies that women have a right to end the life of the child growing in their womb. The Associated Press Stylebook's decision to replace the term "pro-life" with "anti-abortion" is another attempt from the left to paint the pro-life community in a negative light. The new phrasing is not reflective of the pro-life community that exists today, a community that consists of millions of Americans, more than 3,000 pregnancy care centers, and thousands who give of their time and resources every day to journey with women during and after unplanned pregnancies. <B><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/08/major-news-style-guide-tells-reporters-dont-use-pro-life-pro-choice-or-pro-abortion-instead-say-anti-abortion-or-abortion-rights/">Read more...</A></B></p>They're Not Pro-Choice; They Are Pro-Abortionurn:md5:e708ee2cc66e6c9ec98f1d17864a3d0f2022-11-15T16:29:00-05:002022-11-15T17:29:39-05:00System AdminPublic Opinion They call themselves "pro-choice," and they have succeeded in getting almost everyone else to refer to them as "pro-choice." They even refer to those who are anti-abortion as "anti-choice." But they aren't talking about "choice" as if they are supporting the right to choose between chocolate and vanilla. The only choice they support is abortion. They aren't protesting that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Dobbs took away a woman's right to choose to ultimately give birth to a baby. They are demanding that she have the right to end the developing life within her at any time prior to birth. <B><a href="https://broadandliberty.com/2022/11/15/howard-lurie-theyre-not-pro-choice-they-are-pro-abortion/">Read more...</A></B></p>