Abortion Slogans Refuted

Pro-Abortion Slogan #1:  "We demand the freedom to choose! Freedom of choice!"

Summary of the Pro-Life Response.

(1) CLARIFICATION:  We must distinguish between licit and illicit freedoms.

(2) PARALLELISM:  Unlimited "freedom to choose" means simple anarchy.

(3) MAXIM:  No freedom is absolute. Read More...

Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983)

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

No. 81-746

Argued: November 30, 1982

Decided: June 15, 1983 [*]

An Akron, Ohio, ordinance, inter alia, (1) requires all abortions performed after the first trimester of pregnancy to be performed in a hospital (§ 1870.03); (2) prohibits a physician from performing an abortion on an unmarried minor under the age of 15 unless he obtains the consent of one of her parents or unless the minor obtains an order from a court having jurisdiction over her that the abortion be performed (§ 1870.05(B))… Read More…

Catholics for a Free Choice

by Brian Clowes

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a Washington, D.C.-based organization whose objective is to convince lawmakers, the popular media and Catholics that there can be an authentic "Catholic pro-choice" philosophy. CFFC was founded in 1970 by three members of a pro-abortion group called the National Organization for Women (NOW). Its first public act was to ridicule the Catholic Church by crowning one of these women "Pope Joan I" on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Read More...

Free Choice

by William E. May

The expression "free choice" is connected in today's public opinion with the struggle conducted by different groups in favor of liberalizing the laws on procured abortion in different countries. In the name of the right of the human person to his own body in order to realize his life's project, these groups asserted that a pregnant woman has the right to abortion, and that the law has to respect such a right. Read More...

Legal Status of the Human Embryo, The

by Rodolfo-Carlos Barra

Discussions about the humanity of the embryo, product of the male-female union, arise as one tries to formulate premises that facilitate the legalization of abortion and the practices that threaten the very existence of the new being. In this context, it became necessary to coin the term "pre-embryo." This procedure is not new. From antiquity, people have questioned the humanity of other persons every time it became necessary to use arguments to exploit or terminate them. Read More...

Maputo Protocol, The

The Maputo Protocol was written in large part by the Londonbased International Planned Parenthood Federation, or IPPF, the largest abortion-promoting organization in the world. The values of this group are not African in any way, shape or form. IPPF has no regard for national or local traditions and customs in its efforts to legalize abortion worldwide. [...] The Maputo Protocol is the ideal instrument to legalize abortion all over Africa. Read more:  maputo_protocol_english.pdf 214.52 Kb

Obama v Life I: Before the Election

from HLI's Pro-Life Talking Points Series

Barack Obama declared the expansion of abortion his first priority: During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama discussed a large number of pressing issues facing the federal government from the economy and health care reform to terrorism and the war in Iraq. He chose to make the removal of all restrictions on abortion his first priority from the beginning of his campaign. Read More...

Obama v Life II: His First 100 Days as President

from HLI's Pro-Life Talking Points Series

As both a state and U.S. senator, Barack Obama compiled a 100% pro-abortion-on-demand voting record, and he favored abortion-on-demand as a presidential candidate. In his closely-watched first 100 days as President, every relevant decision he made favored abortion. Below is a timeline of President Obama's pro-abortion actions during his first 100 days in office. Read More...

Pro-Abortion Violence

Most people perceive the struggle over abortion in the USA to be a vicious and brutal battle -- with all of the violence being committed by so-called "fanatical anti-choicers."

This is entirely due to the stupid actions of a handful of deranged individuals and the persistent and monolithic bias of the national broadcast, print, and entertainment media. Read More...

Pro-Abortion Violence: Setting the Record Straight

from HLI's Pro-Life Talking Points Series

The Media Narrative for "Pro-Life" Violence is Seriously Distorted. The fact is that abortionists and pro-choice activists are guilty of much more violence than pro-life activists (not to mention abortion itself!), and it’s time that those who don’t know this history, especially the media, learned the truth. Read More...

Pro-Choice

by Joseph & Michael Meaney

The pro-choice ideology was born at the end of the sixties through pro abortion groups progressively using twisted semantics to hide what being in favor of abortion meant. An important step in this propaganda came in the seventies and eighties, when there was an attempt to argue in favor of abortion in the sense of negating that the fetus is an individual or even human. The pro choice arguments do not stand up to a calm study of the scientific facts. Read More...

Pro-Life Organizations

by Brian Clowes

In "Pro-Life Organizations," from his book The Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes provides a brief introduction to the myriad of pro-life organizations existing in today’s world, and then he provides a long list of organizations, including contact information and a description of the scope and mission of each. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Racism of Abortion, The

by Brian Clowes

In "The Racism of Abortion," from his book The Facts of Life, Dr. Brian Clowes discusses topics such as: how abortion is racial genocide; abortion as the new eugenics; Norplant; the ultimate impacts of abortion on culture; and minority pro-life organizations. For the Table of Contents with links to the full content of the chapter, click here...

Sexual and Reproductive Rights

by José Alfredo Peris Cancio

A series of vague and imprecise expressions made headway following a precise strategy during the Cairo and Beijing international conferences. The basis of this was a skewed interpretation of the 1948 International Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations grounded in a different vision of man than the one which inspired this fundamental historical text. One of the most important among these expressions is "sexual and reproductive rights" which is closely tied to an individualistic and statist conception of man and of society. Read More...

State of Abortion Laws Around the World

State of Abortion Laws Around the World, from the Pro-Life Research Series, presents the status of abortion laws around the world on a country-by-country basis.  The report also includes a summary of events in 2009 that demonstrate the continual battle between pro-life missionaries fighting for life and the culture of death.  To download a printable pdf version, click here: State of Abortion Laws.pdf 5.58 mb