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Stopping the Abortion Juggernaut in Central and South America
by Carlos Polo
The abortion lobby seems to expect long-established legal systems to simply collapse before their misinformation campaign. But this isn't happening. Instead, they are increasing being defeated by a popular outcry.

"Fetal Position": A "House" Abortion Episode to Remember
by Dave Andrusko
Tens of millions of Americans saw a powerfully life-affirming message driven home with amazing impact. And it did so in a manner that (judging by the House message board) annoyed only those whom it would be impossible not to annoy.

Dutch Euthanasia Law Marks 5th Anniversary - What They Won't Tell You
by Wesley J. Smith
A recent news report on Radio Netherlands, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of formal legalization, gives a good example. It contained no discussion of the approximately 1,000 patients who, without requesting euthanasia, are nonetheless killed by Dutch doctors.

MTV "Run's House" Star Decides Not to Have An Abortion
by Jill Stanek
The third season of MTV's reality show "Run's House," which begins April 9, will feature a poignant episode. They will also learn Run and Justine were told midway through her pregnancy the baby had a birth defect, omphalocele, which causes abdominal organs to grow outside the body. The Simmonses opted not to abort.

Terri Schiavo's Death: Two Years Later And Human Life Still Unprotected
by Pamela Hennessy
I mourn Terri deep within my heart. Because of her, yes. Most certainly because of her. But also because of what her forced death represents to all of us and that is a departure from human compassion and the protection of the basic rights of all people. How it ends up from here depends on all of us.

Genetically Engineering Children -- A New Concern for the Pro-Life Movement
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
For a number of years now, a great deal of discussion has taken place among scientists and in the popular media about the genetic engineering of children. Will it soon be possible, for prices widely affordable at least to the upper-middle class, to guarantee that children have a high IQ, or excellent athletic ability?

Terri Schiavo's Death Was Just the Beginning -- The Euthanasia of a Nation
by Bobby Schindler
Saturday, March 31, will mark the two-year anniversary of my sister Terri Schiavo's death by dehydration. As hideous as it was, the truth is, long before Terri's case made headlines, the removal of basic care – food and water – was becoming commonplace.

Un-Informed Consent: Why Human Cloning Breaks The Rules
by David Pauls, MD FACS
If you came to me to have your hernia repaired, you would expect me to tell you about the operation, the recovery time and the risks of the operation. Yet, when the discussion goes from a hernia repair to embryonic stem cell research and cloning, the imperative for clarity vanishes.

Abortion and Ultrasounds: I Was Once Blind But Now I See
by Star Parker
When these young women see fingers, toes and a beating heart, they understand the emerging life within them. This is a profound moment of personal growth. It's what causes their change and opens the door to their own rebirth and a life with new possibilities.

Politicians Still Wrong on Terri Schiavo Case Two Years Later
by Bobby Schindler
Thomas Jefferson said, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Sadly, many of our politicians have abandoned this basic principle, and in so doing have abdicated their most crucial role as public servants.

Abused, Neglected and Forgotten: The Christian Duty to Care for Parents
by Ken Connor
Baby boomers are beginning to experience sleepless nights as they worry about their mothers and fathers, and legislators should start to worry, too. The fact is that eldercare is already a national problem, and soon will become a national crisis.

Understanding Abortion Kills Children: Are We Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
by Bryan Kemper
When it comes to something so simple as looking at a baby and knowing that it is a baby, we as a nation are obviously not smarter than a fifth grader. In fact we have killed over 1/3 of the fifth graders before they ever got a chance to go to school.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Shows Scientists' Inability to See
by Dave Andrusko
It is too, too much to read "spiritual" rationale for assorted anti-life policies, the kind that combines "pragmatism" and "religion." So you can imagine my reaction when Michael D. Kerlin's op-ed lecture in last month's Newsday ups the ante, telling the reader that Jesus himself would be on Kerlin's side on the embryonic stem cell debate.

Woman Who Regrets Abortion Upset by New Post-Abortion Email Cards
by Matt Abbott
Caron Strong, a post-abortive woman who is the national director of Operation Outcry, is furious at Exhale's "ministry" and their "non-judgmental" after-abortion greeting cards. "It is absolutely tragic to affirm life in one card and support the taking of life in another," says Caron.

Herstory: First US Woman Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell Opposed Abortion
by Cat Clark
In 1849 Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) became the first woman to receive a medical degree from an American medical school, and in 1859 became the first woman on the British medical register. She was ardently anti-abortion and pro-woman, choosing to enter the field of medicine partly because she was repulsed that the term “female physician” was applied to abortionists.

Mitt Romney's Comments on Terri Schiavo Could Sink His Candidacy
by Jim Anderson
Mitt Romney and all my friends who have argued on his side are not only wrong in this case, but their thinking could sink a fair presidential candidate. We may one day look back and see this week will have been the end of his campaign trail.

When It Comes to Politicians, Don't Expect Sincerity on Abortion
by Rich Lowry
Politicians aren't like you and me. Most of them consider (to the extent they must — they'd prefer not to think about it) one of the most profound moral issues of the day and see primarily a potential obstacle or boon to their ambitions. That's just a fact of life. Sincerity would be nice, but on abortion, it often has to be optional.

Hospice Group's New Position on Assisted Suicide Abandons Patients
by Wesley J. Smith
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine has just released a position statement on the issue of physician-assisted suicide, in which it abdicates its core professional responsibility. On the impropriety of permitting doctors to help kill their patients, the association has assumed a position of "studied neutrality."

Yippie! The Third Annual Abortion Practitioner of the Year Awards
by Jill Stanek
I'm so excited! The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers is just three days away – Saturday, March 10! We will not likely get to celebrate this unholiest of unholy days with the actual dirty deed doers themselves, since I anticipate their inspirational work ethic will compel them to labor (pardon the pun) on coincidentally the most profitable day of their week.

The Media Jihad Continues Against Crisis Pregnancy Centers
by Chuck Colson
The picture on the cover of Time magazine shows the palm of a woman’s hand. Placed within it are four tiny rubber fetuses. The magazine title and subtitle proclaim, “The abortion campaign you never heard about: Crisis pregnancy centers are working to win over one woman at a time. But are they playing fair?”

ABC News Recognizes Premature Baby's Birth Could Change Abortion Views
by Brent Baker
ABC's World News led Tuesday night with an unusual spin, one favorable to conservatives: the survival of a baby born in Florida last October just 21 weeks and six days after conception, the least time ever spent in the womb by an infant who has survived.

Media Continues Cover-Up of Alternative, Ethical Stem Cell Sources
by Michael Fumento
For all the talk over the morality of using human embryos in medicine, perhaps there's another moral issue at play: Non-embryonic stem cell researchers are already performing miracles, such as growing new heart and liver tissue and treating multiple sclerosis--all in living humans. Yet they struggle to get federal funds for their research.

Ex-Kansas Atty Gen Responds to Abortion Sex Abuse Case Dismissal
by Phill Kline
Do not lose hope. Deception has always been a part of this issue and each step we take to reveal the truth is a positive step. We must keep moving forward and there are a lot of things yet to be done that are consistent with the law, our responsibilities and the truth.

Portugal's Low Birth Rate and Underpopulation Suggest Abortion Not Needed
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
The global hand of the human extermination movement has taken hold of Portugal, a small country that has long had a low birthrate. Portugal's birthrate dropped below replacement level over 20 years ago and now stands at a meager 1.5 children per woman. An astonishing 30% of Portuguese will be 65 or over by 2050.

Switzerland Wrongly Pushes Assisted Suicide for Mentally Ill Patients
by Wesley J. Smith
The Swiss Supreme Court recently ruled that people with mental illnesses can be legally assisted in suicide. The case came about when a member of Dignitas, an organization, which, for a fee, provides a safe house for—and assistance with—suicide, brought a lawsuit seeking the right to die.

Wounded Women Will Help Pro-Life Community Win Abortion War
by Steven Ertelt
Post-abortive women have become the new face of the pro-life movement and I firmly believe they will help lead the pro-life community into the promised land -- into the time where abortion's days are truly numbered. When we let post-abortive women who have found genuine forgiveness and healing from their abortions lead the battle, we'll win the abortion war.

If Only My Sister Terri Schiavo Was a Convicted Murderer
by Bobby Schindler
As the mainstream media editorialize outgoing Florida Governor Jeb Bush, I can’t help but compare their opposition to the 34-minute execution of convicted killer Angel Diaz with their support of the 14-day execution of my sister, Terri Schiavo.

Pro-Life Attorney: Roe Abortion Case Can be Overturned, Don't Give Up
by Nikolas T. Nikas
Ending the darkness of Roe v. Wade is not only possible, it is more than likely to occur if those who understand what's at stake don't give up, having tired of the seemingly long battle. For, as social-reform movements go, the 34-year struggle to overturn Roe and its judicial progeny is still a relatively young one.

New York Times Gets the Facts Wrong in Reporting on Abortion, El Salvador
by Noel Sheppard
It goes without saying that one of the clarion calls for the liberal media is unlimited abortion on demand. In a New Year’s eve article written by New York Times ombudsman Byron Calame, it is clear that the folks at the Old Gray Lady don’t understand that the killing of a baby really is murder.

Michael Crichton: With Medical Research, Our Bodies Are Not Our Own
by Wesley J. Smith
Best selling author Michael Crichton warned in last Friday's Wall Street Journal (no link available) that people's cells and body substances are no longer necessarily their own, once removed from the body. Scientists can use your cells and blood to conduct research upon, and if they are fortunate, develop into medical products that will make them billions.

Book Claims Toledo, Ohio Catholic Diocese Paid for Abuse Victims' Abortions
by Matt Abbott
By now, many people are at least marginally familiar with the Father Gerald Robinson case in Toledo, Ohio. Robinson was convicted on May 11, 2006 of murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in a hospital chapel in 1980. He is serving a sentence of 15 years to life.

Potential Supreme Court Retirement Could Shake Political Landscape
by Bob Novak
The rumor around Washington -- originating from undetermined sources some time around the beginning of 2006 -- is that Justice John Paul Stevens wants to be replaced by a Republican President, just as he was appointed by one, Gerald Ford.

Stem Cell Research, Cloning and Euthanasia, Bioethics Year in Review
by Wesley J. Smith
The year 2006 was, overall, not a good year for those promoting bioethical and biotechnological policies firmly rooted in the sanctity/equality of all human life—with particular stinging defeats in the areas of embryonic stem cell and human cloning research.

Australia Human Cloning Vote Saw "Con Science" Crush Conscience
by Dr. David Van Gend
The Australian parliament cast its final vote in favor of a proposal to allow human cloning for research purposes. This tragic and shameful vote has been a victory for ‘con science' over conscience.

Demographer Warns United Nations About Abortion War on Baby Girls
by Samantha Singson
Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt warned delegates of the growing global gender imbalance due to prenatal sex selection and sex selected abortions. Calling the trend a “Global War Against Baby Girls”, Eberstadt delivered extensive statistics on the rise of “son preference” in every part of the world.

Portugal Abortion Referendum Makes Democracy Look Like Tyranny
by Martin Helme
I did a thorough search in the English language media to see how the Portuguese abortion referendum was reported. Again and again they mentioned that Portugal was retrograde from rest of the Europe. A nation that is not marching in line with the rest of Europe because it is not destroying thousands of its children every year is considered backward.

Pro-Life Position on Abortion Doesn't Mean Opposing Women
by Andrea Mrozek
After a heated debate on campus and in the media, Carleton University's student association decided this week to limit the activity of pro-life groups on campus. Students spoke out in favor of freedom of speech or in favor of women's rights, but this is a false opposition.

Abortion Debate Helps Us Know When We Become Human Beings
by Nat Henthoff
Overlooked in the wake of last month's midterm elections and the Supreme Court oral arguments on partial-birth abortion is a South Dakota abortion case in the federal courts that casts a sharp shaft of light on the national abortion debate.

Abortion vs. Premature Birth: Why My Wife and I Chose Life
by Robert Cox
Today my son is 15 years old. He had a tough first few years, but has had no lasting medical problems related to his premature birth. He is now an honor student at our local high school. And while we argue from time to time, I am fairly certain he is glad I did not go along those doctors who wanted to kill him all those years ago.

Choosing Which Babies Die in Abortion Beyond Our Human Wisdom
by Jerry Brenneman
When it comes to something like abortion, we don't have what it takes to make this type of life-and-death decision. It simply is not our choice to make. None of us possesses a divine knowledge or wisdom. None of us has all the answers. None of us is omniscient.

Michigan Anti-Coercion Bill Protects Women From Forced Abortions
by Suanne Thompson
This legislation, known as the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act (CAPA), is sponsored by Michigan women legislators. It would give women the backing they need to stand up and say, "You can't force me; it's against the law." For those bullies who refuse to live up to this standard and continue to violate women, this law will identify perpetrators and bring them to justice.

UNFPA Convenes Meeting of Parliamentarians That Endorses Abortion
by Samantha Singson
The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) sponsored a gathering of 180 parliamentarians in Bangkok last week in an effort to get the lawmakers to pledge to promote “reproductive rights.”

Pro-Abortion PAC Emily's List Performed Poorly in 2006 Elections
by Bob Novak
Considering the excellent year Democrats had in 2006 at all levels, a group that funds Democratic women who are pro-choice on abortion would have been expected to do well. That EMILY's List did so poorly, despite the trend, provides yet another interesting confirmation that this election was a non-ideological confrontation between the two parties.

Human Cloning Advocates Shroud The Truth on Women's Egg Donations
by Dr. Monique Baldwin
A final vote about human cloning is looming as the debate begins in the Australia House of Representatives this week. Hidden among the promises of cures and hype about a biotech boom is the assumption that thousands of women will merrily undergo hazardous egg harvesting procedures to hand over their eggs to the cloners.

New Movie "Bella" Excites Pro-Life Community, April Premier Planned
by Robert Novak
"Bella," unknown to the general public, has generated excitement and anticipation in conservative Catholic and other anti-abortion circles. The problem is getting the film in movie theaters around the country for its public premiere early next April. That is never easy for an independent film with no box office names, but the problems are magnified when its message runs counter to the social mores of Hollywood.

The Media Hides What Others Already Know: Abortion Hurts Women
by Karen Malec
Abortion industry consent forms admit that abortion is associated with a number of serious health risks. Nevertheless, when it comes to induced abortion, many U.S. journalists and their medical experts "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil." Although the evidence shows otherwise, they continue to represent abortion as a "safe" procedure.

Adult Stem Cell Research Gives Patients Most Hope for Healing
by Dr. Manny Alvarez
Stem cell research is a much debated and controversial topic in modern medicine. However, the controversy around embryonic stem cells has also sparked an interest in a less ethically risky option: using stem cells taken from adults to treat various diseases.

Late-Term Abortions in Kansas, The Real Human Rights Violation
by Bill O'Reilly
There is something terrible going on in Kansas, and you should know about it. A doctor named George Tiller is performing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of late-term abortions using a variety of medical reasons, including a mother's depression.

Pro-Life Advocates Made Election 2006 Better Than it Could Have Been
by Dave Andrusko
A whopping 36% of the total sample said that the abortion issue influenced their vote. Almost exactly two-thirds of that figure (23%) voted for candidates opposing abortion as compared to only 13% who voted for candidates favoring abortion. The pro-life advantage saved a number of candidates.

Supreme Court Should Say Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Protects Women's Health
by William Beckman
During the November 8th hearing, when Justice Kennedy asked how often the partial-birth abortion procedure was medically needed, the plaintiff's attorney admitted there are no statistics showing that. When the Supreme Court upholds the partial birth abortion ban, one of the suggested dire results threatening women's health will occur.

Western Nations "Committing Suicide" Thanks to Underpopulaton Problems
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
Remove the threat of Islam, remove the threat of Marxism, even
remove the threat posed by the process of cultural breakdown per
se, and the West is still on a rapid course to suicide. It's a
very simple biological reality: Western people are not having
enough children.

Respectable Baby Killing -- Building Mainstream Support for Euthanasia
by Wesley J. Smith
The push to permit infanticide has entered the mainstream. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology (RCOG) has recommended that a debate be had about whether to permit “deliberate interventions to kill infants.”

Abortion-Depression Link Research Could Change Pro-Life Movement
by Daniel Allott
The American Psychological Association (APA) withdrew an official statement denying a link between abortion and psychological harm. This is significant because pro-life and abortion groups have been sparring for years over whether abortion is significantly associated with a higher risk of subsequent depression.

Partial-Birth Abortion: It is What It's Name Implies
by Douglas Johnson
In reality, it has been established beyond reasonable dispute that many abortion practitioners do, in fact, mostly deliver living babies before killing them by puncturing the base of their skulls with sharp instruments, such as the seven-inch Metzenbaum surgical scissors or the trochar (a pointed, hollow metal tube).

Parental Notification on Abortion: Pro-Life Opportunity in California
by Dr. Michael New
It is no secret that the past 10 years have been difficult for the pro-life movement in California. While other states have spent the past decade enacting different types of protective legislation, progress has remained stalled in the Golden State.

Human Cloning Advocates are Really Behind Missouri Amendment 2
by Nikolas T. Nikas & Dorinda C. Bordlee
Tomorrow’s election results on Missouri’s Amendment 2 will set the national tone for the Brave New World issue of whether our law and policy will sanction the creation of human lives to be used as raw material for science experiments. What’s often lost in this debate is the identity of the people who use the hype of medical utopia in their attempt to convince citizens that they’re banning human cloning.

Missouri Amendment 2 Backs Human Cloning, Just Look at Dolly
by Dr. Fazale Rana
It’s a sophisticated shell game of semantics to say that this amendment will ban human cloning. Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is cloning. This level of dishonesty is jaw dropping -- unbelievable bias. SCNT is the same procedure that was used to clone Dolly the sheep.

Why I'm Voting Pro-Life, and Motivated About the Elections
by Father Frank Pavone
Election Day is approaching, and I'm motivated to vote and to influence many other votes. I'm motivated because voting is part of what I need to do to fulfill my life's dream -- a dream shared by many others -- that abortion, the biggest holocaust the human family has ever known, will cease.

Polaroid Babies: Countering Pro-Abortion View on Embryo Development
by Professor Richard Stith
Why do many pro-choice people find our arguments against early abortion not just unconvincing but absurd? Consider, for example, the ridicule that the defense of human embryos sometimes draws. In order to have any hope of winning the debate, defenders of unborn life must understand how an argument that seems wholly reasonable to us can strike our opponents as a bizarre.

Pro-Abortion Lawmaker Manipulated Records of Abstinence Education
by The Abstinence Clearinghouse
The new report, Abstinence and Its Critics, released by Rep. Mark Souder, rectifies the misinformation widely disseminated by the mainstream media and clearly shows that abstinence programs are effective. The report further indicates "the value of abstinence for young people cannot be overestimated."

The Big Stem Cell Research Breakthrough The Media Won't Disclose
by Wesley J. Smith
Did you see the size of those headlines? "Stem Cells Used to Create Artificial Liver," the New York Times screamed on its front page. What's that? You didn't see those headlines? You say you somehow missed the story? Well, don't blame yourself. You are not out of touch. The above headlines never appeared, the stories have not been written.

Missouri Amendment 2 is a Fraud, It Promotes Human Cloning
by Cathy Ruse
Constitutional Amendment 2 is a fraud. It purports to ban human cloning, but the fine print actually creates a constitutional right to human cloning. It purports to ban the purchase and sale of human eggs, but the fine print actually gives a constitutional safe haven to human egg trafficking.

We Need a Pro-Woman Stem Cell Research, Human Cloning Policy
by Marcy Darnovsky
As the midterm elections draw near, stem cell politics may be taking a new turn. For years, the debate about stem cell and cloning research has focused almost completely on the moral status of embryos. The need for young women to provide fresh eggs for cloning research, and the risks that poses, have been all but overshadowed.

California Proposition 85, Parental Notification on Abortion, Makes Sense
by Noelle Patno
Parental involvement also curbs abusive relationships in which older men exploit young girls and use secret abortions to cover up their crimes. Such situations are disturbingly widespread: a study of 46,000 pregnancies of school-age girls in California revealed that 71 percent were caused by men with a mean age of 22.6 years.

Michael J. Fox's Stem Cell Research Television Ads Are All Wrong
by Ken Conner
Fox leaves the impression that some people are against using "life-saving stem cells." The problem is that Fox does not differentiate between the use of therapies utilizing adult stem cells, the harvesting of which poses no ethical problems, and therapies involving embryonic stem cells, the harvesting of which results in profound ethical problems.

Scientists' Open Letter: Missouri's Amendment 2 Backs Human Cloning
A key question regarding Missouri's proposed Amendment 2 is: Would this constitutional amendment prohibit or promote "human cloning"? As individuals who have studied this issue in depth, we hold that it clearly authorizes and promotes human cloning.

The Truth Behind the Michael J. Fox Stem Cell Research Deception
by Wesley J. Smith
Michael J. Fox’s ads exemplify what is so wrong with the larger pro-cloning political campaign: Long on hype, steeped in deceit, preying on the fears of disease victims, exploitive of our national fixation with celebrities, and appealing strictly to the emotions so that we will "feel" rather than "think."

California Mom's Experience Highlights Need for Abortion Meausure
by Bob Mcphail
On Friday morning, July 30, 2004, Diana Lopez, a divorced mother of four young children, was awakened by a phone call. The call was from a staff member at the middle school that her two oldest children attend, Memorial Academy in San Diego. Lopez recounted that the staff member told her that her 13-year-old daughter had been taken to the hospital because she was bleeding.

Why Does Congress Fund Planned Parenthood When It Sues on Abortion?
by Jay Sekulow
On one hand, Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in America, is funded in large part by our hard-earned tax dollars. Then Planned Parenthood turns around and sues Congress for passing a law banning partial-birth abortion. In essence, Congress is taking our money, giving it to Planned Parenthood, who then sues Congress with the aid of the money we've already given them.

Women Who Regret Abortions Prepare Their Own Ad Campaign
by Matt Abbott
Some pro-life women are gearing up to answer Ms. magazine's recent pro-abortion advertisement with an advertisement of their own. They hope to gather at least 1,700 signatures for the advertisement, which will give a voice to women who regret their abortions.

Scientists Want to Change Human Cloning Terminology for More Support
by Jennifer Lahl
So, it makes sense why biologists want to remove cloning from their vocabulary. If you want to do something unethical, just change the terms so people can feel good about the decisions and views they hold and you can do the research you want to do.

California Newspaper Proves Necessity of Parental Notification on Abortion
by Karen England
In an article published today by the Sacramento Bee, the hypocrisy of Proposition 85’s opponents is revealed in a telling anecdote. While profiling both opponents and proponents of parental notification before a minor's abortion, the paper interviewed a young volunteer for the “No on Proposition 85” campaign.

Worldwide Population Growth Has Been Plus for the Environment
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
Opponents of population growth almost always cite environmental concerns, and this week's media coverage of America hitting 300 million in population was not an exception. Our population hit 200 million in 1967 and 300 million last Tuesday. In those 40 years, America cleaned herself up quite well.

Some Experts Think Experimenting With Living, Disabled Patients Is Okay
by Wesley J. Smith
In the real world, we have a higher sense of morality and ethics. We would never use catastrophically disabled human beings so crassly. We understand that treating people as mere things violates the intrinsic dignity of the individual and the equal moral worth of all human life. Well, most of us do.

Doctors: South Dakota Abortion Law Parallels Scientific Understanding
by Dr. David Stevens and Dr. Gene Rudd
From a medical and ethical perspective, this law gets it right on every point. Some may challenge the law on ideological or political grounds, but when it comes to the law's scientific and ethical foundations, it is above reproach.

Pro-Abortion Activists Try to Rewrite History on Susan B. Anthony
by Marjorie Dannenfelser
The new claim by pro-abortion activists that Susan B. Anthony was not pro-life doesn't pass the straight-face test. Anthony's own words speak for themselves – she called abortion ‘child murder.’ I don't know how anyone can read that and somehow think Anthony would today defend abortion on demand laws.

"Values Voters" Have Two Big Pro-Life Votes This Election Season
by Janice Shaw Crouse
There are two big-ticket, values-voters issue campaigns in the upcoming midterm election. The ramifications of the outcomes for the two issues would be hard to overestimate. Two great moral issues of election 2006 will be determined at the polls and it is the people's voice that will determine the outcome.

Population Reaches 300M But Overpopulation Concerns Don't Exist
by Jonah Goldberg
As I write this, America’s population reportedly has passed the 300 million mark. The most remarkable aspect of this landmark event is how unremarkable it really is. Today, overpopulation anxieties pale by comparison to years past. These days, overpopulation is primarily a hang-up for environmentalists, though suburbanites and feminists occasionally whine about it, too.

Deceptive Initiative Would Mislead Missouri Into Supporting Cloning
by Yuval Levin
This November, voters in Missouri will be asked to consider a ballot initiative on human cloning and embryonic-stem-cell research. But many of the most basic facts about just what the proposal says and aims to do have not fully emerged.

Tennesee Rep. Harold Ford Not Pro-Life on Abortion, Despite Claims
by Douglas Johnson
Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee, has recently characterized himself as "pro-life." Remarkably, some journalists and other commentators are gullibly accepting this characterization without checking out Ford's 10-year voting record on abortion-related issues in the House of Representatives.

Euthanasia Not About Terminal Illness Despite Advocates' Claims
by Wesley J. Smith
The legalization of assisted suicide/euthanasia would, by definition, harm society. It corrupts the purposes of medicine, it discriminates against the vulnerable by permitting the facilitation of some suicides, while requiring the prevention of others, and it opens the door to the fall of a steep moral cliff.

Misleading Missouri Measure Would Launch Human Cloning in U.S.
by Robert Novak
The problem is that the proposal so narrowly defines cloning as to open the door in Missouri to any cloning procedure that takes place outside the womb. If this is approved by a state that historically is a barometer of national trends and is considered a pro-life stronghold, it will be a national model for breaking popular resistance to what the scientists and biotech companies want.

"I Had an Abortion" Campaign Ignores Women Damaged by Abortions
by Eve Sanchez Silver
I am writing in response to Ms. Magazine's "I Am Glad I Had An Abortion" campaign, and the magazine editors insistence that the opposite of "I am Glad I Had An Abortion" is NOT "I Regret my Abortion" but rather "I Regret my Birth."

Missouri's Titanic Embryonic Stem Cell Research Initiative Deceptive
by Jill Stanek
Consider the iceberg, of which only the tip is visible. Such is the short Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative to be voted on next month. Beneath it looms a titanic constitutional amendment. Amendment Two, as it is called, is a proportional Titanic. At five pages and 2,000 words, it is half the length of the entire United States Constitution.

Washington Post Bias: Pro-Abortion Democrat is "Mainstream" Paper Says
by Tim Graham
Shailagh Murray's front-page story in the Washington Post today is called "A Balancing Act in the Upper South." A better title might have been "I'm NARAL-Endorsed, But I'm Hoping You Don't Notice." It's funny how Murray can't seem to locate that endorsement, and she doesn't call McCaskill a pro-abortion liberal, but she is merely in the "mainstream" -- of the liberal Democratic Party.

Bush Admin's Desire to Decrease Population Control $ May Not Stand
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
Official federal spending on overseas "population assistance," which means population control, has a slim chance of dropping significantly in fiscal year 2007. The Bush Administration proposed only $357 million for such family planning programs early this year, a significant reduction from the $425 million it typically proposed in previous years.

Scientists Pushing for Human Cloning Want More Than Just Research
by Wesley J. Smith
We are always assured by "the scientists" that they don't support "reproductive cloning," but only want a license to clone so that the asexually created embryos (for now, leading to fetuses later) can be researched upon. To some degree, that is true -- but not because of any moral calculation.

Senate's Failure on Abortion Notification Bill Points to Pro-Life Election Concerns
by Steven Ertelt
The Senate's failure to approve an abortion bill that would have provided support for parental notification and consent laws across the country points to the need for pro-life advocates to get involved in key election battles that are happening in virtually every state.

Terri Schiavo's Brother Says Ellen Goodman Op-Ed Misguided, Inaccurate
St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s brother, says a recent nationally syndicated editorial written by columnist Ellen Goodman is misguided and inaccurate. The following is a copy of his letter to the editor to the Boston Globe newspaper reaction to her opinion piece, “Playing vegetative mind games.”

Standing Up to the United Nations' Bullying on Abortion
by Janet Shaw Crouse
Last week, a well-respected insider and two stalwart outsiders stood up against the United Nations’ bullying. They've had their fill of the UN forcing nations into compliance with non-binding treaties engineered by the left to impose their views on the rest of the world.

Terri Schiavo and the "Unconscious" Interactive Patient
by Wesley J. Smith
I can't let it go: I just can't. A lot of people thought about poor Terri when it was revealed that a British patient diagnosed as PVS was clearly interactive, based on MRI testing. That brought to many people's minds, mine included, the request of Terri's folks that she receive a test that would measure brain function rather than mere structure.

Pro-Life Arguments Get New Forum in Risque TV Show "Nip/Tuck"
by Kathryn Lopez
“Nip/Tuck” is one of the most risque shows on television. The cable drama — about the escapades of two Miami plastic surgeons — has it all: beautiful people, pretty much every deadly sin and vice. But in one main storyline in its season premiere earlier this month, “Nip/Tuck” was positively dichotomous, positively pro-life.

Euthanasia Radicals Show True Colors in Canada With Suicide Pill
by Wesley J. Smith
Euthanasia radicals are always trying to pretend that all they want is access to assisted suicide for the terminally ill in unbearable pain for whom nothing can be done to alleviate suffering. This is a false premise, of course. But it is not the true agenda, which is really about eventually getting to the place of near death on demand.

Ethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research Experiment Was Just Another Fraud
by Michael Fumento
The fierce public debate over killing human embryos to create lines of embryonic stem cells is over; tout fini; the end. It was buried with a stake thrust through its heart by a study published in the world's most prestigious science magazine, Nature.

How to Talk to Democrats About Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Eric Pavlat
Once again, medical experimentation is being carried forward on those who are not judged to be “full persons” and are not granted “the same rights and respect that others [enjoy].” This time, though, it's performed on those whom the legal system won't even grant a lawyer: the human embryo.

Opposing Abortion: How Ronald Reagan, Henry Hyde, Others Became Pro-Life
by Fred Barnes
How do people become pro-lifers? What turns people into passionate foes of abortion and related issues like euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research? I'm talking about people who, as adults or mature teenagers, were either pro-abortion or basically indifferent to the issue. Then something changed their mind, prompting them to take up the anti-abortion cause.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding Worse Than Abortion
by Richard Stith
To the casual observer it might appear that the arguments against abortion must be stronger than those against publicly funding the destruction of embryos. This conclusion, however, would be mistaken. The funding of destructive embryo research is actually worse than legal abortion.

Missouri Human Cloning Group Needs to Tell Truth About Stem Cell Research
by John Dunsford
It is strange that an organization identifying itself as a "Coalition for Lifesaving Cures" needs to sponsor a professional advertising campaign at a cost of millions of dollars seeking to persuade Missouri voters to support stem-cell research. Unfortunately, the proponents of the initiative have chosen to advertise the plan with the hype of a commercial for lottery tickets.

British Doctor: We Must Help The Dying Not to Kill Them in Assisted Suicide
by Baroness Finlay
The boundaries that we have put in place in society are that doctors do not kill patients. The law is there to protect the majority in society - it is there to protect the vulnerable from harm. The only people better off by someone being dead are those who are left behind.

Colorado Liberals Less Concerned by Abortion Racism Than Wrong Figure
by Denny Hartford
So how do Colorado liberals respond? Well, rather than deal with the fact; namely, the "appalling" rate of abortion among black women itself, they do what comes natural -- ignore the salient issues altogether and get angry at the person with the audacity to point out the obvious.

Michael Schiavo: Giving Euthanasia a Face in the 2006 Elections
by Nat Henthoff
Among the celebrities journeying to Connecticut to support Ned Lamont's campaign to unseat Sen. Joseph Lieberman is Michael Schiavo, known around the world as the husband who finally succeeded in having the feeding tube removed from his late wife, Terri Schiavo.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advocates' Lies Get Pass in Mainstream Media
by Wesley J. Smith
Reporting the same supposed scientific achievement by Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), the Washington Post quoted the company's bioethics adviser Ronald Green: "You can honestly say this cell line is from an embryo that was in no way harmed or destroyed." Unfortunately, you can't "honestly" say that.

Women Overlooked in Biotech Debate, Human Cloning Exploitive
by Katrina George
We've heard a lot about promised cures for everything from spinal cord injury to Alzheimer's. We've been alerted to a brain drain of scientists unless parliament gives the nod to the technology. Amid all the hype, there has been silence about the interests of one stakeholder: women.

North Country Gazette Attacks LifeNews.com, Concern About Terri Schiavo Questioned
by Steven Ertelt
People like Terri Schiavo deserve to live and when the right to life is abrogated by abortion, euthanasia or embryonic stem cell research, whether some people like it or not, LifeNews.com will tell the story that the mainstream media often refuses to report or covers up with biased or inaccurate stories.

Woman Hurt by Abortion Clashes With Ms. Magazine on Post-Abortion Campaign
by Matt Abbott
The following is a slightly edited version of recent correspondence between Luana Stoltenberg, Iowa state leader of Operation Outcry, and the editor(s) of the virulently pro-abortion Ms. magazine.

Selling Death: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide Advocates Market Their Agenda
by Pamela Hennessy
Calling up terms such as "compassion," "choice" and "easy landing," pro-euthanasia and mercy-killing advocates have crafted out a rather brilliant advertising campaign that has influenced the general public in a successful and most dangerous way. Some of these so-called compassionate types will even urge you not to be a burden on your family and loved ones.

Ms. Magazine "I Had an Abortion" Campaign Doesn't Represent Women
by Michael Medved
These ladies, despite reluctance to disclose their personal history, count unequivocally as "Pro Abortion" regarding the rest of America. Their strident voices demonstrate their isolation from an American mainstream and a growing consensus that government indeed has a proper, inevitable role in discouraging abortion and encouraging respect for human life.

Morning After Pill Will Do More Harm Than Good, Doesn't Lessen Abortions
by Wendy Wright
Abortion advocates claim that making the "morning-after pill" available over the counter would be safe and reduce pregnancies and abortions. The real-world experience shows just the opposite. Easy access to the morning-after pill would also be harmful to women and girls.

Prenatal Testing Brings Inherent Moral Dangers, Leads to Abortion
by Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.
Prenatal technologies are indeed powerful tools that must be used with great discernment and circumspection. When used appropriately, these technologies can be a real source of assistance to growing families. Those families that manifest an openness and receptivity to every child God sends them, regardless of their imperfections and ailments, provide a compelling and vitally important witness in our troubled times.

Terri Schiavo's Father: Florida GOP Gov Candidate Charlie Crist Let Terri Die
by Bob Schindler
As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist.

Nurse: New Orleans Euthanasia Charges Remind Us "First Do No Harm"
by Jennifer Lahl
Disasters do happen. We must be prepared for them when they do. And killing our patients is never an appropriate response to their care. Those who we trust our very lives with have an obligation to first, do no harm. The ultimate in patient abandonment is to end their life in possibly their greatest hour of need.

PETA: Sacrifice Human Life, Not Animals, in Stem Cell Research
by Steven Milloy
The animal rights activist group PETA seems to have its own "ethical" problem -- urging the sacrifice of human life rather than that of laboratory animals for medical research. I assumed that PETA most likely opposed ESC research since it necessarily involves the sacrifice of animal lives as well as human embryos. Au contraire.

Boston Globe Says Abortion for Unwanted Children Better Than Birth
by Mark Finkelstein
The unborn children of teenage mothers who don't want them are better off dead. I don't see any other way to interpret the Boston Globe's editorial of this morning. The Globe clearly seems to be concluding that death would be kinder for the unborn child.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Could Foster Experiments on Prisoners, Patients
by Paul Greenberg
The next ethical ridge to be crossed would then loom ahead: If it's permissible to experiment on embryos destined to be destroyed, why not on terminally ill patients, or prisoners on Death Row, or, well, the list would surely grow.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Biased on Coverage of Bush Stem Cell Research Veto
by Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann characterized President Bush's veto of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research as a "hard stance" and a "setback for stem cell research" as the President was "honking off" and "turning his back on" federal funding proponents "despite pleas from his own party."

New President of Planned Parenthood Abortion Business May Not Last Long
by Jim Sedlak
Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood hired Cecile Richards as its latest president. The obvious question when the organization brings in a new president is, "Will she be one of the 'major presidents' or just a place holder?" We predict that she will be able to fool herself and get by on her charm and drive for a year or so, but after that, it will be the babies that get to her.

Post-Abortion Leader Takes Pro-Life Message to Episcopal Church Convention
by Georgette Forney
We spoke boldly and tirelessly to everyone we could about the value of life, the importance of protecting it from fertilization to natural death. When we heard about the task force being formed to research the declining population in the Church, we laughed and when we realized that the Episcopal Church chose to uphold the sanctity of abortion, we cried.

Science Magazine Promotes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Scam
by Michael Fumento
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) receive tremendous media attention, with oft-repeated claims that they have the potential to cure virtually every disease known. Yet there are spoilsports, self included, who point out that they have yet to even make it into a human clinical trial.

ABC News Biased in Covering Bush Veto of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill
ABC News on Wednesday framed its coverage, of President Bush's veto of a bill to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, from the point of view of those upset by his decision. Charles Gibson, anchor of the newly-named World News with Charles Gibson, delivered a tease and a plug which conveyed only the view of those in favor of the bill.

Planned Parenthood Labels Several Pro-Life Groups "Terrorists" on Abortion
by Kevin Holtsberry
At a time when terrorism is a global threat and has more than few people worried about a regional war in the Middle East, the folks at Planned Parenthood have apparently checked their common sense at the door. Shocking, I know. On their website they are comfortable labeling pro-life and pro-family organizations as "terrorists and extremists."

House Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advocates Torpedoed Bill With Lies
by Rich Doerflinger
Representatives Mike Castle and Diane DeGette, House sponsors of the embryo destruction bill, mounted a last-minute campaign against the “alternatives” bill, managing to sway or confuse enough House members that the bill narrowly failed to achieve the two-thirds support needed for approval on the suspension calendar.

Abortion Backer: Amnesty International Should Take No Position on Abortion
by Denise Noe
Amnesty International should take no position on the legality or illegality of abortion but should continue to work to protect the rights of people who struggle politically and socially on either side of this issue on which “decent people may disagree.”

Missouri Ballot Proposal Creates Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dictatorship
by Steven Rogers JD
The proposed amendment creates a new constitutional right. This guarantees the right to conduct embryonic stem cell research. The right is to-be preeminent and, unlike other constitutional rights, may not be regulated in any manner by any of the three branches of government. It is designed to operate above the rule of law.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill Could Lead to More Scientific Fraud
by Robert P. George and Eric Cohen
The current effort in Congress to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to include embryos left over in fertility clinics will never satisfy scientists, because such stem cells will not give them the genetic control they want over the cells.

Terri Schiavo's Brother: Liberals, Democrats, Disabled Supported Terri
by Bobby Schindler
Many in the ill-informed media continue to give Mr. Schiavo a free pass when it comes to insulting comments about my family and as to his conflicting specifics and statements, which can easily be disputed by reading court documents or referring to his previous interviews. Unfortunately, this basic effort has been continually overlooked by the journalism profession.

Terri Schiavo Day Would Help Us Restore Respect for Human Life, Disabled
by Kevin Fobbs
I have spent the last several months writing and speaking about Terri Schiavo and the need for a national Terri's Day. I have seen even in my own state those who are well meaning, yet have backed away from even discussing what happened to Terri. It is as if they have to look over their shoulder to see if the ACLU thought police are listening in.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Support is More Politics Than Science
by Michael Reagan
It keeps popping up like weeds in your garden. Just when you think you've weeded out all their myths and falsehoods, the advocates of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) are back pounding on your door and demanding your tax dollars to fund this latest example of junk science masquerading as the real thing.

Supreme Court Should Uphold Congress Authority on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
by Jay Sekulow
The high court should defer to Congress in this area in light of the extensive consideration Congress gave to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The fact is that the measure approved by Congress and signed into law by President Bush represents a permissible and constitutional course of action.

Congress Can Support Stem Cell Research Without Destroying Human Life
By Robert P. George and Eric Cohen
Too often in this debate, science and ethics are regarded as being on a collision course. They need not be. For what could be more pro-science than relying upon scientific ingenuity to lead the way to stem cell advances without conducting unethical cloning experiments?

What's the Difference Between Terri Schiavo and Terry Wallis?
By Terence Jeffrey
Some media reports have cited doctors keen to draw a distinction between Wallis and Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose deliberate killing by dehydration last year ought not to have been allowed, even if she had had no hope of recovery. Nonetheless, these reports suggest that Schiavo could not have experienced a recovery like Wallis did, because her brain injury was more severe.

Abortion Practitioners Need Prayers to Stop, Pro-Life Catholic Priest Says
by Father Frank Pavone
I have reflected on the lives and souls of abortionists. I have quoted their words so that you can glimpse their pain. In this column, I rejoice to tell you yet again that the former abortionists you may already know -- like Bernard Nathanson, Carol Everett, and Tony Levatino - are only the "tip of the iceberg."

Louisiana Abortion Ban Represents New, Winning Strategy for Stopping Roe
by Dorinda Bordlee and Nikolas Nikas
Move over ERA. It’s time for the PRA – the Post-Roe Activation clause. Led by women with the courage to share their stories of profound grief and medical trauma that they suffered after they chose the “choice,” Louisiana has passed legislation to outlaw the human rights violation known as abortion on demand.

Nat Hentoff: Child of Abortion Practitioner Insists on Life for the Unborn
by Nat Hentoff
A longtime friend of mine is married to a doctor who also performs abortions. Their 9-year-old son -- having heard a word whose meaning he didn't know -- asked, "What is an abortion?" His mother, choosing her words carefully, described the procedure in simple terms. "But," said her son, "that means killing the baby."

New York Pro-Life Group Opposes Involuntary Euthanasia Bill
by Chris Fitch
The New York State Right to Life Committee opposes the Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA), unless our critical amendments are incorporated into the bill to prevent hospitals from denying life-saving treatment against the will of patients and their families.

Senate Overlooks Embryonic Stem Cell Research Fraud With $ Vote
by Steven Milloy
The Senate is preparing to vote this summer on a bill restoring funding to embryonic stem cell research. It's a situation that should make you wonder whether our elected representatives pay any attention at all to current events.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Hucksters Exploit Misery for Money
by Michael Fumento
The media in general don't want to hear about use of adult stem cells to cure paralysis, or about adult stem cells at all. In fact, they frequently attribute adult stem cell breakthroughs to embryonic stem cells. The South Korean incident unintentionally provided false hope for paralysis sufferers, and that's painful. But ESC acolytes are knowingly lying to them. And that's wicked.

ACLU's Free Speech Advocacy Depends on Who's Doing the Speaking
by John Leo
Many people believe that the American Civil Liberties Union no longer cares much about free-speech cases. Now, the organization is thinking of curbing the speech of its own officers. It has drawn up standards, not yet promulgated, that would discourage public dissent on ACLU policies and forbid open criticism of anyone on the board or the staff.

Europe Freezes in Demographic Winter Due to Severe Underpopulation
by Don Feder
With Europe locked in the depths of demographic winter, the World Congress of Families offers a thaw as it prepares for its 4th Congress -- Warsaw 2007. The population bomb, hyped by the likes of Paul Ehrlich turned out to be a dud. The Western world now faces the reality of depopulation. Since the 1970s, worldwide fertility rates have been cut in half.

Psychologist: More Studies Needed on How Abortion Hurts Women
by Dr. Warren Throckmorton
Recent research from Norway and New Zealand has reported an association between abortion and subsequent mental health problems. Although the two investigations are not the first to suggest such a relationship, they are well-designed studies suggesting that abortion may be linked to negative mental health reactions for some women.

Harvard Report Bashing Abstinence Education Relies on Decade-Old Data
by Janice Shaw Crouse
A report released this week by a Harvard University student, and published in the online edition of "The American Journal of Public Health," purports to show that virginity pledges are ineffective. This major hit at abstinence pledges contains several problems and the data is a decade old.

Right to Die Movement is Really About Euthanasia, Not Compassion
by Wesley J. Smith
THERE IS A PRETENSE in contemporary assisted suicide advocacy that goes something like this: "Aid in dying" (as it is euphemistically called) is merely to be a safety valve, a last resort only available to imminently dying patients for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating organization Dignitas is just about done with pretense.

Houston Hospital Planning to Euthanize Patient Despite Family's Wishes
by Wesley J. Smith
For years I have been warning that bioethicists are getting their ducks in a row to permit them to refuse wanted life sustaining treatment that is removed because it keeps the patient alive, not because it doesn't provide medical benefit. These are value judgments, not medical determinations.

Terri Schiavo's Death: Not About Who Decides, But What We Decide
by Laura Echiavarria
The primary question of the case wasn't who had the right to make the decision to deny Terri food and water, but whether the decision was right at all. We are all a car accident away from being disabled. Will you or I one day face a fate similar to Terri's? Like Terri, is there a point when we are not human enough or alive enough to be allowed to live?

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Scientists Exploit Paralysis for False Hopes
by Michael Fumento
There's bad news for paralysis victims hoping that some variety of stem cell will soon help them walk again. These victims are being mercilessly exploited by those desperate to convince us that embryonic stem cells – yet to be tested in a human – are a miracle cure desperately needing massive infusions of taxpayer funds.

Whether Terri Schiavo or Haleigh Poutre, We Should Err on the Side of Life
by Kathryn Jean Lopez
Christopher Reeve, Terri Schiavo and Haleigh Poutre are all very different — different circumstances, different ages, different classes. But they should all make us think about the same question: Shouldn't we always err on the side of life?

Abortions Are Declining Nationwide, Despite Media and Pro-Life Bashers
by Steven Ertelt
One of the untold stories in the abortion debate today is the significant progress that's been made in reducing the number of abortions. Thanks to dozens of pro-life laws approved by state legislatures each year, the growth and effectiveness of pregnancy centers, and the popularity of abstinence among teenagers, states across the country are seeing abortions decline. In some cases they've reached their lowest abortion total since Roe.

Media Buried Embryonic Stem Cell Research on Dana Reeve Story
by Tim Graham
The national media was full of broken hearts last week when Dana Reeve died at 44, after nearly a decade of caring for disabled “Superman” star Christopher Reeve. It was obvious from the coverage that this woman had won hearts and made friendships in the media elite. But something strange happened in all the laudatory waves of coverage. Someone shrunk her activism.

CBS News Shows Bias on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Michael Fumento
For a wonderful example of triumph of hype and politics over reality, look no further than two CBS News 60 Minutes segments that aired towards the end of February. Like most of the media, it remains obsessed with promoting a will o' the wisp science while ignoring an alternative that's been saving lives for decades and also avoids ethical concerns.

Abortion Lies vs. Realities: Misleading Women About Their Health
by Janice Shaw Crouse
At the 50th session of the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, members of the Pro-life, Pro-family Coalition for Non-Government Organizations are distributing vital information about abortion -- information that flies in the face of the conventional leftist wisdom.

Newsweek's Debate: "Hard Right" vs. "Pro-Abortion Rights" Groups
by Tim Graham
The most transparently obvious way of displaying liberal bias is to take an issue like an abortion, and suggest the conservative side is extreme, while describing the liberal, abortion-on-demand side without a label, as reasonable, almost non-ideological. Newsweek's that obvious in this week's issue.

Human Rights and the Barbaric Partial-Birth Abortion Technique
by John Whitehead
There are some things so evil that, even in a world filled with pain and suffering, it is almost incomprehensible that they exist in a so-called civilized society. What’s more, such evils should be opposed by any and every person who claims to be a champion of human rights. Partial-birth abortion is one such evil.

Daughter's Abortion Death Prompts Father to Start Post-Abortion Foundation
by Christina Mitchell
If it's true hindsight is 20/20, then George J. Zallie's vision never has been sharper. But his heart is in pieces. Zallie's daughter and youngest child, Stacy, took her own life in October 2002, almost a year after having an abortion she kept from her close-knit family. Zallie is convinced the resulting emotional roller coaster led to her death.

Like Terri Schiavo, Haleigh Poutre Not Safe When Others Decide Her Fate
by Wesley J. Smith
In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life.

Hollywood Elite Should Join the Call to Save Haleigh Poutre
by Michelle Malkin
I have a question for the hordes of bleeding-heart Hollywood stars who joined the "Save Tookie" brigade. Where are you now? In Boston, an innocent girl was sentenced to death by the state. Her name is Haleigh Poutre. Last fall, she was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her unconscious with a baseball bat.

As Roe Turns 33, Don't Forget Pro-Life Laws Lower Abortions
by Rebecca Hagelin
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood concerned a law that New Hampshire passed in 2003 requiring minors to give parents 48-hours notice before an abortion. Is such pro-life legislation effective? Do parental-notification laws, partial-birth abortion bans and informed-consent laws make a difference?

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Media Hypes a Fraud
by Wesley J. Smith
The other story here is the media’s attempt to shore up public perception of embryonic-stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning even in the midst of the implosion of its most exciting “breakthrough” and the utter discrediting of the field’s most promising star.

Hollywood Filmmaker Who Made Abortion Movie to Attend March for Life
by Matt Abbott
When pro-life activists gather in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 2006 for the 33rd Annual March for Life, there will be a new face on stage -- the face of a Hollywood filmmaker. Jonathan Flora, the director of A Distant Thunder, the first motion picture to address partial-birth abortion, will be there.

ABC News Profile of Abortion Practitioner Attacks Samuel Alito Nomination
by Noel Sheppard
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- ABC News’ Martin Bashir last evening on “Nightline” brought on an Arkansas “abortionist” to sell America the virtues of this oftentimes ghastly procedure, while making a political statement against the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

Human Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cell Research Exploits Women
by Jill Stanek
The fear that cloning would exploit women was the major reason the United Nations called for its ban last year. The U.N. was concerned that cloning would create an international market for eggs and egg donors that would exploit disadvantaged women in particular.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Fraud Shows Limits of Human Cloning
by Wesley J. Smith
For years, human cloning has been promoted through propaganda techniques of misrepresentation, exaggeration, and false hope for the suffering. The human cloning agenda is falling into public disrepute-and for that, proponents of the agenda have no one to blame but themselves.

CBS News Describes Girl's Inc's Pro-Abortion Views as Pro-"Discussion"
by Mark Finkelstein
For CBS and the Early Show, an explicit statement that Girls, Inc. "supports a woman's freedom of choice" and Roe v. Wade is nothing more than support for "an open discussion of abortion."

Gianna Jessen: I Was an Abortion Victim at Seven and a Half Months
by Gianna Jessen
My biological mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when she decided to abort me. I don't know why she made that decision. She went to a clinic in Los Angeles and had a saline abortion. The idea was that within 24 hours she would deliver a dead baby. But, by the grace of God, I survived.

FDA Should Take RU 486 Abortion Drug Off the Market for Killing Women
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
The FDA under the Clinton Administration officially rushed the approval of RU-486 under expedited procedures normally reserved for drugs needed to save people's lives. Women have been paying with their health and even their lives since.

Inside Look at Abortion Practitioner Provides Eye-Opening Report
By David Sanders
This week the Los Angeles Times' provided its readers an enormous service. William Harrison, Fayetteville's self-proclaimed abortionist, opened his doors to Stephanie Simon, a Times staff writer, providing her an all-access pass to the realities that exist within an abortion clinic's walls.

Senate Democrats Playing Politics With Adult Stem Cell Research Bill
by Wesley Smith
Four million babies are born in this country every year, bearing gifts of inestimable value. Foremost among these, of course, is the love they bring into the world and elicit from it. More practically, however, these infants bring with them something that we are learning has great potential to alleviate human suffering: the stem cells contained in the blood of their umbilical cords.

Giving Thanks for Pro-Life Groups: A Case Study in Saving Lives
by Jill Stanek
State and local pro-life organizations form the political and educational nucleus of our movement. The importance of these groups cannot be overstated. Our one strength with politicians is our grassroots. Our one way around liberals and the mainstream press is by direct education.

Assisted Suicide Sometimes Used on Patients Not Terminally Ill
by Greg Piper
If you're interested in medical ethics surrounding assisted suicide, quality of life and such, two great sources for such news and commentary are Slate's Will Saletan and bioethics writer Wesley J. Smith. The latter points out that assisted suicide has been carried out on the non-terminally ill.

Abortion Advocates Will Attack Pro-Life UN Nominee This Week
by Kate O'Beirne
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to vote this week on the nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey to be assistant secretary of State for the bureau of population, refugees, and migration. California Democrat Barbara Boxer will reportedly make the case against the former Maryland lawmaker's confirmation.

Adoption Should Not be Taken Lightly as Abortion Alternative
by Mary Worthington
One of the arguments that the pro-abortion movement continually tries to use to convince society of the necessity of abortion is that with adoption, the birth parents "will have someone else raise their baby." This view is seen as simply unacceptable for their rigid ideology because all pregnancies, not just all children, must be planned.

Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Empowers Men to Take Advantage of Women
by Jill Stanek
Imagine giving men the same "reproductive rights" as women: the freedom to terminate fatherhood at any time during a partner's pregnancy, and corresponding with baby abandonment laws, up to one year after delivery. Most unmarried men appear to be bully on and often bully for abortion.

Samuel Alito Will Likely Do the Right Thing on Abortion at Supreme Court
by Joseph A. D'Agostino
Washington's conservative and pro-life activists are almost uniformly pleased with the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito as the replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Alito has a long record of intelligent, conservative, by-the-text interpretation of the Constitution and law that promises an excellent Supreme Court justice. Yet a few pro-lifers point to cases in which Alito did not rule in a pro-life direction. I believe their criticism rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of judges’ proper role.

California Holds Tanning Salons to Higher Standards Than Abortion Centers
by Dr. Pia de Solenni
Despite the fact that parents generally have the best interests of their children in mind and they are legally liable for any costs or complications resulting from their minor daughter’s abortion, the state of California does not require them to be notified. Yet, the state requires not only parental notification but parental consent for a minor age 14 to 18 to use a tanning bed.

Review: "A Distant Thunder" a Quality Pro-Life Movie, Thought Provoking
I think this video could be a great tool for classrooms. It's much higher quality than most prolife videos I've seen and could lead to a number of interesting discussions after the video because there are a number of things that are left unanswered.

Without Parental Notification, Abortion Harms Girls And Parents
by Eileen Roberts
Parental notification laws do not take away a woman's right to an abortion; they simply protect our daughters from the harms of surgery. But more importantly, it allows parents to put their arms around their daughters and say, "I love you, and we'll get through this together."

Terri Schiavo Case Shows Some Problems With Living Wills
by Pamela Hennessy
Since the court-sanctioned death of Florida’s Terri Schiavo, the conversational media and written press have predictably and (almost) obediently echoed sentiments of self-proclaimed bioethicists in touting living wills as a measure to ensure that one’s own autonomy and personal directives are observed and held fast to in times of medical crisis.

Harriet Miers' Friends May Have Promised She'd Overturn Abortion Case
by John Fund
On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination was announced, Dr. James Dobson and other religious conservatives held a conference call to discuss the nomination. One of the people on the call took extensive notes, which I have obtained. According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers's close friends--both sitting judges--said during the call that she would vote to overturn Roe.

Woman Who Regrets Abortion: California Needs Parental Notification
by Matt Abbott
Dawn Jackson had an abortion when she was a teenager. The San Antonio, Texas resident still has painful memories of that time in her life. Now she is speaking out in support of parental consent, and in particular California's Proposition 73, which "would require abortion businesses to notify a parent or guardian 48 hours prior to performing an abortion on a minor girl" in that state.

Leading Black Pro-Life Advocate Defends Bill Bennett on Abortion-Crime
by Day Gardner
Everyone is talking about the statement made last Thursday by talk show host Bill Bennett. It is my understanding that Mr. Bennett is pro-life and therefore opposes abortion; however, what everyone is so upset about is the fact that as an example, he stated that if Black babies were aborted then the crime rate would drop.

Was the Autopsy the Final Word on Terri Schiavo's Euthanasia Death?
By Diana Lynne
In the minds of many Americans, the results of the autopsy performed on Terri Schiavo served as the final word on the debate over whether the 41-year-old brain-damaged Florida woman should have been dehydrated to death per court order. News outlets across the board delivered the results released June 15 to their audiences as "vindication" for Michael Schiavo for having fought seven long years in court for the right to remove his wife's feeding tube and end her life. At the same time, journalists vilified the Schindlers, Terri's parents and siblings, for having opposed him. "End of story," many say, while others beg to differ.

Adult Stem Cells Are Better: No Jaundiced View Please
by Tony Perkins
From Britain, we learn that doctors treating liver patients using adult stem cells from the patients' own bone marrow have scored some stunning successes. Dr. Nagy Habib, a surgeon at London's Imperial College, took adult stem cells from his patients' own blood and reinserted the cells into the patients' livers.

Walt Disney Director Makes Pro-Life Abortion Film, Crime Drama Thriller
by Matt Abbott
Jonathan Flora, a producer for the Walt Disney Company, has written and directed a 35-minute film on the subject of “partial-birth” abortion – and the buzz surrounding it seems to be quite positive thus far. Says Flora: “A Distant Thunder is a film I wrote and directed as an independent project outside of Disney. It is a supernatural, courtroom thriller that … is generating awareness and dialogue about a topic surrounded by a great deal of misinformation and controversy.”

Planned Parenthood Cares More About Abortion Than Teen Girls
By Peter Bronson
Public schools require permits, doctor's permission and written consent from parents to give a Tylenol to a student. It's much easier for an eighth-grader to get an abortion. All it took last year for a 14-year-old "Jane Roe" was a cell phone number. A staffer at a local Planned Parenthood clinic called the number and got permission - from a 21-year-old man who was molesting the girl and coerced her into an abortion.

Adult Stem Cell Research Treats Spinal Cord Injury Patient
by Wesley Smith
Korean scientists have used umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal cord injury patient. The patient is a woman who has been paraplegic from an accident for more than 19 years. She had surgery and also an infusion of umbilical cord blood stem cells.

Botched Abortion Kills Disabled Kansas Woman and Her Baby
by Dr. Kelly Hollowell
I have written only a handful of columns that required fighting back the tears. This is one of them. In Christin's case, she was taken by her family at 28 weeks pregnant to Wichita, Kan., to the infamous abortion clinic of Dr. George Tiller. According to the medical examiner's report, her horrifying and painful death was a direct result of the abortion.

Pro-Life People: Stand Up Against Abortion By Attending a Life Chain
by Suzanne Fortin
On Sunday, October 2nd, thousands of pro-lifers across the US and Canada will participate in Life Chain, a silent, prayerful, hour-long protest to tell the truth about abortion: that abortion kills babies. I strongly urge all pro-lifers reading this to look up http://www.lifechain.net to find out where their local Life Chain is being held

Abortion Advocate: Judge Upholding Pro-Life Law Should be "Lynched"
by Tony Perkins
Judge Roberts should feel lucky that Ohio abortionist Carol Westfall does not sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas described the unsubstantiated attacks on him during his nomination hearing as a "high tech lynching." Ms. Westfall, executive director of two abortion clinics in Ohio, called for the actual lynching of a female judge who upheld commonsense legislation dealing with parental notification and informed consent of women regarding the consequences of and alternatives to abortion.

"Reproductive Freedom" Dominates Supreme Court Battle on Roberts
by Jennifer Roback Morse
It is startling to realize that the looming battle for the Supreme Court hinges on whether nominees will pledge their support for the utterly irrational demand to suspend the law of cause and effect. For that is what the claim that we have a constitutional right to “reproductive freedom” amounts to. All Americans are entitled to have the cause, namely, unlimited sexual activity, without ever experiencing the effect, namely, a live baby. To see the absurdity of this claim, try out a couple of analogies.

Pro-Life Participant Rebuked at United Nations Disability Conference
by C-FAM
At a recent UN conference held to negotiate a treaty on the rights of the disabled, the concerns of a pro-life NGO leader were openly criticized by the conference chairman, a highly unusual move given the extreme collegiality that typically prevails at such meetings. The exchange took place during an August 8 meeting of the Sixth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.

Another Catholic School in Chicago Honors Pro-Abortion Official
by Matt C. Abbott
In 2004, there was the scandal of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a Catholic institution, giving an award to strongly pro-abortion Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Despite pleas from concerned Christians and even from Francis Cardinal George, Loyola refused to cancel the award. Well, it seems history is once again repeating itself. The Women's Council of St. Ignatius College Prep, located in the city of Chicago, will have Madigan as their featured speaker at their 7th Annual Women's Council Dinner on September 22, 2005.

"March of the Penguins" vs. Pro-Abortion March of Women
by Jill Stanek
Last week, my 5-year-old grandson and I went to see the movie, "March of the Penguins." MOTP is a documentary that tells of the incredible sacrifices emperor penguins make to reproduce, protect their eggs, and safeguard their babies' lives in the harshest conditions on earth. In light of the pro-life issue, I watch animal documentaries and dramas with mixed emotions. On one hand, there are usually a couple of scenes about pregnancy or giving birth corroborating that, yes, on a gut level, people do recognize the sanctity of life.

Planned Parenthood Turns Sweetheart Deal on Morning After Pill Sales
by Jim Sedlak
Within the next week, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce its decision on whether a drug known as Plan B will be available over the counter without a doctor's prescription. FDA approval would not only represent an ideological victory for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, but it would also generate a financial windfall. Because of a series of shrewd business agreements, the organization could be in position to make a minimum of $100 million profit over a five-year period from Plan B sales if the FDA gives the go-ahead for over-the-counter distribution.

Tracy's Abortion Remembered -- A Sales Pitch and Absent Boyfriend
by Rebecca Pearce-Banks
In this line of writing, sometimes people trust you with secrets they wouldn't tell their best friends. I was honored and humbled when Tracy* told me about her abortion and it's terrible aftereffects. She asked me to share it with you. Years ago, when I was 19 and my boyfriend, Bill*, was 27 I got pregnant. My precious baby is gone because I made the decision to have my pregnancy terminated. Please, I beg you, don't do this to yourself and your child.

"The Island" Movie Expresses Pro-Life Objection to Human Cloning
by Phyllis Schlafly
Surprise, surprise. In the midst of the controversy in Congress about whether to maintain President Bush's principle that it is unethical to create human life for the purpose of destroying it, Hollywood released a big-budget pro-life movie. The movie, called The Island, is a sci-fi action thriller with a powerful message against creating human life in a laboratory.

Bill Frist "Misdoagnosed" Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Tony Snow
No politician can resist the temptation to press up against the glass storefront called History and think wistfully: "This is where I belong." So when the Siren of Enchantment crooked her finger last week at Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., he strolled to the Senate floor and urged American taxpayers to underwrite embryonic stem cell research, promising that the shift would "define us as a civilized and ethical society forever in the eyes of history."

John Roberts Shouldn't be Asked About Abortion
by Paul Greenberg
A nominee for the court shouldn't be taking stands on political issues precisely because he is not running for a legislative or executive office. Instead he's been nominated for a seat on the highest court in the land, and there is a difference, a big one. Unlike a senator or a governor, a justice of the Supreme Court is sworn to do impartial justice. Which means he shouldn't even come close to prejudging issues that are likely to come before him

Juvenile Diabetes Group Should Stop Backing Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Jill Stanek
I've had it with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and how it exploits sick children to beg for money from legislators. I've also had it with legislators who make decisions about our money based on emotions rather than facts and who then exploit sick children for political gain.

Senator Durbin's Humanitarian Concern Stops at Abortion Clinic Door
by Robert Knight
In 2003, when the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to ban the barbaric “procedure" known as partial-birth abortion, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) voted “nay." This is the same Sen. Durbin who on Tuesday, June 14, compared personnel at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot and others—that had no concern for human beings." The senator's humanitarian impulse toward terror suspects seems curious, given his efforts to protect abortionists’ “right" to pull fully formed children out of the womb up to their necks, pierce their skulls, suck out their brains, and extract the dead bodies.

Actress Caron Strong Helps Lead Post-Abortion Outreach Group
by Matt Abbott
Caron Strong is a former actress who has appeared on TV and in film. She’s the mother of a young daughter, Cayla, her pride and joy. Caron recently became the national director of mobilization for Operation Outcry: Silent No More, an organization "working to overturn Roe v. Wade in light of new evidence of the physical, emotional, and psychological damage to women who have experienced abortion and new scientific evidence regarding the undeniable humanity of the child at the time of conception." She knows first hand the horror of abortion. She's been through it more than once, and she doesn't want women to needlessly suffer like she has.

The Population Control Controversy -- Overpopulation Myths Continue
by Matt C. Abbott
During the last three decades, the issue of overpopulation -- or perceived overpopulation --has been discussed in various capacities. The primary instigators of these discussions have been the radical environmentalists, the radical animal rights activists, and certain wealthy elites in our Western society. All of these groups more or less assert that human beings are destroying the planet. There are too many of us, they say. Hence, we must utilize "family planning" (read: abortion, contraception, sterilization), even in a coercive manner, to limit the number of people born into the world.

A Mother's Act of Love to Save Her Unborn Child
by Justin Torres
Thirty years after Roe, we have not yet fully come to understand all the ways that abortion has distorted our culture, coarsened it, made it less loving and less noble. The moment of hesitation I describe is the culture of death whispering insinuations at us. It is important that we continue to shout truth from the rooftops to drown out its voice.

Americans Ready to End Roe v. Wade Abortion Decision, Despite Polls
by Star Parker
Support of Roe v. Wade is by no means unequivocal. Further polling by Gallup shows support for legal abortion "under any circumstances" at only 23 percent. The majority of those who support abortion feel it should be legal "only in a few circumstances." What this polling data tells me is that most Americans are not supportive of the spirit of Roe v. Wade. It's also sharp and clear from the Gallup poll that Americans are not happy about the moral state of our country.

The Abortion Industry's Hypocritical Sexual Abuse Cover-Up
by Steven Ertelt
Recent news once again proves the hypocrisy of the abortion industry. As you've seen reported on LifeNews.com, state authorities in Kansas and Indiana are investigating allegations of statutory rape on young girls in both states. State officials know the girls were raped because they became pregnant and had abortions. Amazingly, their efforts to find out more information about the victims and to prosecute the rapists have run into a brick wall as abortion businesses refuse to hand over paperwork that would help put the criminals behind bars.

Choice on Abortion for All -- Except Pharmacists
by Debra Saunders
Warning: If Barbara Boxer and Frank Lautenberg have their way, consumers could force dissenting pharmacists to stock particular drugs and to dispense them. Choice, once again, is a one-way street. Indeed, some in the anti-choice crowd can't even support the compromise of requiring pharmacists to find a co-worker or refer a customer to a nearby pharmacy to dispense a disputed drug.

It Didn't Start With Dolly - Human Cloning is Close at Hand
by Wesley J. Smith
HERE'S AN EASY POP QUIZ: What's the name of the first cloned mammal? If you answered, "Dolly," that would be . . . wrong. Wrong? But wasn't Dolly the sheep touted by the media as the first mammal ever made "asexually" through the cell nuclear transfer cloning process? Yes, but there are a lot of things you hear from the scientific/media establishment that are not exactly accurate.

"Pro-Choice" Advocates Only Back Choice on Abortion
by David Boaz
Feminist groups have come out against a woman's right to control her body. No, it's not April Fool's Day, and the story didn't appear in the satirical paper The Onion. No drug or medical procedure is without risk. Not abortion, not breast implants, not the morning-after pill. The question is who makes the decision. One answer is "it's a woman's right to control her body." Apparently that's only the feminist answer if the question is abortion.

Push-Polling on Terri Schiavo?
by Nat Henthoff
During the intense national debate about the worth of Terri Schiavo's life, a majority of Americans agreed with her husband that they would not want to continue living. But when the pollsters called, did they describe the actual facts of her condition to get the responses that created and confused the national response?

Terri Schiavo Case Reveals How We Treated Disabled Americans
by Cathy Cleaver Ruse
TERRI SCHIAVO is at the heart of a human tragedy being played out in our nation, and watched by the world. Her plight dramatizes one of the most critical questions we face: To be a truly human society, how should we care for those who cannot care for themselves? Ultimately what happens to Terri Schiavo will say more about us than it does about her.

Combating "Friendly Fire" in the Pro-Life Movement: A Gonzaga Lesson
by Jim Anderson
FRIENDLY fire is not just a battlefield problem. Churches have dealt with it for years. Now it is becoming too common in the pro-life movement. Let me be really clear by using just one real-life example: The specific case of basketball-great Gonzaga University and its president. Perhaps only a few of those close to Fr. Spitzer know how he has stuck his neck out for the pro-life cause each year. These critics of Fr. Spitzer probably have not heard how pro-abortion advocates view him. They consider him their adversary.

Abstinence Education Works, Despite Objections From Abortion Advocates
by Paul Weyrich
WHOEVER COINED the phrase "you can't argue with success" never ran into the folks who run the pro-abortion lobby. The representatives of these groups are willfully blind to the fact that more teens are open to the message of abstinence and to incorporating it into how they lead their lives.