Life Issues

Congress may be in its last week of business for 2011. So, part of its work this week will be choosing whether or not to support family values in the 9 spending bills it has left to pass for FY2012. With time running out, Congress may negotiate and package those 9 spending bills into one bill called an omnibus (read: a big, fat bill with two or more spending bills included) and then pass the omnibus before week’s end (the temporary measure to fund the government expires this Friday).  Read more

How many abortions have occurred in the U.S. since legalization in 1973? What are some characteristics of women who have abortions? (more…)

I hate having to write this blog today.  Read more

Even though the presidential election is over a year away, most of the news is taken with Republican hopefuls right now. Which makes it hard to remember that Congress still has business to do. {Well, until Harry Reid shakes things up a bit like he did yesterday}. Warning: you may lose consciousness in a sea of procedural jargon about a “nuclear option” and other Senate Swahili that nobody understands.  Read more

A bit of good news.  Congress passed and the president signed a law (the America Invents Act, H.R. 1249) that includes an important, but not well-known, pro-life provision called the Weldon Amendment. The amendment prevents the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) from issuing patents that are “directed to or encompassing a human organism.”  Read more

I recently noticed a story in the New York Times called the Two-Minus-One Pregnancy.  The premise of the article is that there is a growing movement of women who are willing to “selectively reduce” – i.e., abort – a child in the womb if an IVF (in vitro fertilization) procedure results in more than one baby.   Read more

In the hot pursuit of technological advancement we have often left behind morality, ethics, and the sanctity of life.  Prenatal surgery stands as a shining example of how we can use advancements in medicine to affirm the dignity of all human life.  Read more

“We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth — the right to know who both our parents are.  And we’re ready to reclaim it.”  Read more

The Bible is far from silent on the topic of the sanctity of human life, especially in the womb. This resource provides just a few of the Scripture verses that speak to the value of preborn life created in God’s image from the moment of fertilization.  Read more

The sanctity of human life. Is it still a sacred concept or an adage that doesn’t apply in today’s society?  Read more