Abortion

“[M]ore than 8 in 10 Americans (81 percent) … and nearly two-thirds of pro-choice supporters (66 percent), would restrict abortion to — at most — the first three months of pregnancy…..Additionally, 77 percent of Americans, including 79 percent of women and 71 percent of “pro-choice” supporters, say that laws can protect both a mother and her unborn child.”

“After a months-long investigation by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine revealed that Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in that state were dumping aborted babies in landfills, a state lawmaker is now pushing to have those children’s remains buried or cremated.” CPost

“[I]t would be easy to dismiss charges that extreme anti-abortion rhetoric feeds domestic terrorism, but Christians, if anyone, should recognize the power of words to bring both good and ill.”

Calling legal abortion “murder” when it isn’t (it is, to our shame, lawful) is to say what isn’t true, at least in a civil (not church) context.

“The new law … will go into effect January 1, unless a court overturns it. Two Christian legal organizations have already filed suit, and now the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates have joined them. …the first requirement of the law is for the pro-life centers to post a sign referring women to someplace they can obtain free or low-cost abortions.”

“Known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the bill failed on Tuesday morning to receieve the necessary 60 votes to advance to a vote.” CPost

“StemExpress said it didn’t want backlash over the practice of harvesting tissue from aborted babies to detract from its other work.” WORLD

“Alabama, Louisiana and New Hampshire all have eliminated funding for the country’s leading abortion provider after the release of videos providing evidence Planned Parenthood trades in baby body parts.”