by APFLI | Aug 29, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
EDITORIAL The American Psychological Association (APA) has arbitrarily decided that abortion doesn't hurt women. Ever. In a new draft report on released on August 12th by the secretly appointed "Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion," the APA flatly...
by APFLI | Aug 29, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
EDITORIAL When Planned Parenthood Action Fund president Cecile Richards repeated Feminists for Life's trademarked line “Women Deserve Better®” while addressing the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, she missed the point. The Guttmacher...
by APFLI | Jul 30, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Alice Walker is well known for her book, THE COLOR PURPLE. How My Mother's Fanatical Views Tore Us Apart (Alice Walker's daughter, the cost of feminism) by Rebecca Walker The other day I was vacuuming when my son came bounding into the room....
by APFLI | Jul 16, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
I had had an affair with Ray. My husband John was too busy caring about himself and had neglected the children and me. Ray was very handsome and made me feel wanted and needed a lot more than my husband… Unfortunately, Ray was also an alcoholic and...
by APFLI | Jul 12, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
(CASE STUDY TESTIMONY) I was 17 when I became pregnant. I wanted to have the child but my boyfriend threatened me. I was also terrified of the reaction of my father. I was...
by APFLI | May 11, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
People regularly send poetry to express their feelings about abortion and the gift of life. Here is one such poem… The Thoughts of the Unborn Pain is so real and it's easy to see It all happens to you and me I know we are born to die But at...
by APFLI | Apr 29, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
I was 18 years old when I got pregnant. Since I had already enlisted in the Air Force, I thought I had to have an abortion in order to make something of my life. My best friend drove me to the abortion center. It was like an assembly line. When the ultrasound was...
by APFLI | Apr 10, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on 8Apr08, Feminists for Life president Serrin M. Foster moderated a Pregnancy Resource Forum.[SM] In anticipation of the Forum, the following op-ed by Brenda Kay Zylstra was published in The Daily Illini....
by APFLI | Mar 26, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
by Will Gorman, Los Angeles, California A few years ago my 30-year-old daughter picked the night of the Dodger playoff game to tell me she was pregnant – hoping I’d be so enthralled with the game that I wouldn’t be too upset by the news. ...
by APFLI | Mar 6, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers is just around the corner – March 10 – but it appears I'm the only one celebrating this year. Not one national abortion website is showcasing this exciting holiday. Popularity may be dwindling...
by APFLI | Feb 15, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
…Eighteen years ago as I sat quietly… I experienced a deep realization – I harbored resentment in my heart. The realization caused me to repent and forgive. Forgiveness set me free from within, and I began to see with a clarity I never had before....
by APFLI | Jan 20, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Serrin M. Foster President Feminists for Life of America On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, many will focus on the undeniable humanity of the unborn child now seen clearly by millions through sophisticated sonograms...
by APFLI | Jan 14, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
by Colin Mason The topics of unplanned pregnancy and teen motherhood have always been politically sensitive ones for our morally schizophrenic nation, a nation that has the highest rate of teen pregnancy of any developed country. On the one hand, conservatives hold...
by APFLI | Jan 1, 2008 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Even from death row, you can change history and save lives. Two death-sentenced Kentucky prisoners have a grievance which the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear. In the case of Baze v. Rees, the inmates argue that the method of execution most commonly used –...
by APFLI | Sep 5, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
Maggie found herself an unemployed, divorced mother of 2, living with a man and pregnant with his unwanted child. She had an abortion. She wasn't far along in the pregnancy. It was a hurried decision. Maggie says, "The abortion issue preys on fear — the...
by APFLI | Jul 24, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
[The majority of this article was written in 1992 (one section has been added in 2007). It is posted to show how much information a normal American could find regarding the dangers & deceptions of abortion 15 years ago.] by Sue Turner, M.Sci. On a beautiful...
by APFLI | Jul 22, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
TO MY BABE “I was young. I had been carrying you for nearly 2 months when I found out about you, Babe. I was so confused. It was getting “late” and things were being rushed. I had now to make a decision – a decision which I would later regret...
by APFLI | Jul 21, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese It has not been easy to acknowledge that feminism has promoted the unraveling of the most binding and important social bonds. Not easy, but unavoidable. Like countless other women who cherish improvement in the situation of women in the...
by APFLI | Jul 21, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
[from On Message, Life Dynamics] Pro-abortion rhetoric: Women must not be denied the right to control their own reproductive lives. RESPONSE: We have absolutely no interest in controlling women's reproductive lives. However, the biological reality is...
by APFLI | Jun 26, 2007 | Responses - Defending Life / Rebuttals / Advocacy / Dating / Adoption
It's the great moral divide of our age. Here one doctor explains why she's so passionate about persuading her patients NOT to have abortions. Arms folded protectively around her chest, the thirty-something in her smart business suit was tearful but adamant....