by APFLI | Sep 3, 2013 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Feminists for Life pioneered promoting holistic, woman-centered resources on campus, making us uniquely positioned to help reach this high-risk group, equip activists, and transform campuses. In the first ten years of the College Outreach Program, abortions among...
by APFLI | Dec 17, 2012 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
In 1998, I wrote an article … titled “A Crisis Pregnancy Close to Home — When it’s your own unmarried daughter facing a staggering ‘choice,’ are you still pro-life?”1 with the permission and encouragement of my daughter Marie, who was 18 years old and pregnant...
by APFLI | Nov 14, 2012 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Open Adoption: A Love Story In 1998, I wrote an article … titled “A Crisis Pregnancy Close to Home — When it’s your own unmarried daughter facing a staggering ‘choice,’ are you still pro-life?”1 with the permission and...
by APFLI | Oct 26, 2012 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
In a response to the sturm und drang over Richard Mourdock, conservative writer Tevin Wax has written a list of the top 10 questions pro-abortion candidates are never asked by the media. The list is insightful and has been passed around pro-life circles today in...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2012 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
An international group of obstetricians and other physicians meeting in Dublin this weekend has issued a statement denying that abortion is ever “medically necessary” for women. In part, the Declaration reads: “As experienced practitioners and researchers in...
by APFLI | May 24, 2012 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Perinatal Hospice Providing Care for the Pre-born and Families A new policy paper released this week by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) features Byron Calhoun, M.D., a perinatologist and professor at West Virginia University-Charleston, addressing the subject of...
by APFLI | Dec 28, 2011 | Abuse / Violence / Forced Abortion, Hard Cases - Incest / Rape / Congenital Anomalies / Life of Mother, Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
… As a former student at a medical college, I’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath in order to participate in clinicals. Because of this, I know there is a “first do no harm” clause. … [I]t is that doctor’s job to ‘first do no harm.’ NOT saving the life of a...
by APFLI | Oct 14, 2011 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The Economics of Abortion By August 31, 2011 the abortion toll will reach . . . 54,513,314 If THIS Doesn't Shock You, Wait Until You See the Bill! Most people are shocked to learn that there have been 54.5 million abortions in the United States since abortion was...
by APFLI | Oct 8, 2011 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The Truth About “Back Alley” Abortions With the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gossnell and his associates for running an abortion “house of horrors” in Philadelphia in January 2011, and legislative proposals to strip Planned Parenthood of government...
by APFLI | Aug 28, 2011 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Commentary: Things Planned Parenthood's 'Truth Team' Forgot to Mention By Susan E. Wills Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has dispatched a "Truth Team" to rally opposition to the Pence Amendment (H.R. 1, sec. 4013), a measure to...
by APFLI | Jul 21, 2011 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The Economic Cost of Abortion: $202 Billion in Lost Taxes Per Year as of 2012 In 2008, there were over 1.2 million unborn children murdered by abortionists in the United States. Of course these babies, unlike those who chose to abort, had no...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2011 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Auschwitz and Abortion: An Echo of History By Brad Mattes, MBS Auschwitz. The name alone stirs up emotions of anguish and horror. It’s the place of unspeakable cruelty and depravity. More than sixty years later, passions continue to run as deeply now as they did...
by APFLI | Dec 18, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
We all hear frequently that … human life must be respected from conception to natural death. Yet most of us have friends, family or co-workers who don’t see things this way. They seem to be basically good people and not some sort of moral monsters. How can...
by APFLI | Nov 5, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
One Woman's Story of Rape, Unwanted Abortion, Acceptance and Healing In this excerpt from The Jericho Plan, one woman shares her story of coerced abortion after rape and how she is healing from the pain of this experience. In 1973 I became pregnant from a date...
by APFLI | Oct 28, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
By TOM COOK and ROBERT MARTIN Last Monday night, Channel 42, the local CBS affiliate, aired a sitcom titled "Rules of Engagement." Promotions for the show aired in many commercial breaks during the Alabama-Florida game and throughout the preceding week. In...
by APFLI | Oct 27, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Responding to: How Dare You Compare Abortion to The Holocaust or Slavery? (2010) I have heard many people cry foul whenever any pro-lifer uses the Jewish Holocaust or slavery in America as a comparison to abortion. Many times at my talks someone will scold me during...
by APFLI | Sep 4, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Martin Luther King’s dream has been hijacked. By whom, you ask? You decide. The Civil Rights Movement has been described, not as a movement about blacks and whites, but as a movement that was about right and wrong and freedom and justice. Blacks and whites alike...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Comment: The barren Left argues that children are a nuisance and a distraction. The truth is that men and women with children are more, not less, productive than their childless counterparts. Steve Mosher Cyril Connolly once said that “there is no more somber...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Abortion kills a living child. But this simple fact is often too easy to ignore since the victims of abortion – even when they survive – rarely ever speak about it. But one victim who did survive an abortion and who is set to address the...
by APFLI | Aug 4, 2010 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
How many near to us are at risk or hurt? "I wanted so badly to talk to someone, maybe someone would say, 'Don't do it, I will help you.' … instead I was herded into a room with about 10 other girls like cattle." Certain themes run through...