"...according to a new documentary on her life, 'AKA Jane Roe,' which premieres Friday on FX, McCorvey made a startling claim during a 'deathbed confession' delivered in 2017: She was paid to embrace the anti-abortion movement.' - RNS
"After Hallmark scrubbed all mentions of the pro-life film Unplanned from a recent broadcast, pro-life advocates grew outraged. The star of Unplanned, Ashley Bratcher, first revealed that all references to the film had been removed from Hallmark's broadcast of the Movieguide Awards, even though Unplanned was nominated for awards in three categories." - W.Examiner
"Pro-life advocates in the U.S. Senate will try again Feb. 24 to gain passage of protections for unborn babies late in their mothers' pregnancies and newborns who survive abortions -- something they have been unable to do the last two years. .... the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" - BPNews
"In Colorado, thousands attended the 'Celebrate Life' march to rally against late-term abortions. . . .approximately 9,000 people appeared in Chicago to protest their beliefs in the 'March for Life Chicago.' In 2014, only 1,000 showed to the event. This year’s theme was "Life empowers: Pro-life is Pro-Woman.'" - Christian Headlines
"The number of abortions fell in one year by more than 13,000 to 623,471 in 2016, the latest year for which data is available, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Nov. 29 report." - BPNews
"In reality, pro-life is pro-woman. ...Pro-lifers insist pregnancy doesn't have to mean an end to anything, whether that be an innocent child's life or a female's hopes and dreams." - Kimberly Ross
By David Gunn
Recent events have thrust the issue of abortion back into the public spotlight. Now the culture war’s battle lines are being redrawn in familiar places as pundits, partisans, and politicians line up to yell at and talk past one another. That’s unfortunate, because this issue deserves to be treated much more seriously than the political football it has become. We’re not talking about the stuff of mundane political discourse. This isn’t about marginal tax rates, trade policy, or property rights. This is about the taking of innocent human life. Even from an irreligious perspective, what more fundamental human concern could there be than that?
Conservatives are often accused of being on the “wrong side of history.” The argument goes like this: conservative values and ideals are quickly becoming outmoded, and eventually society will look back on conservative social norms with the same derision we now reserve for such historical misdeeds as slavery and institutionalized misogyny. Occasionally, there might even be a grain of truth in this line of thinking—after all, William F. Buckley once defined a conservative as someone “who stands athwart history, yelling ‘Stop!’” That’s because conservatives believe that in many cases what society calls progress is in all actuality a foolhardy march toward self-destruction. “There is a way that seems right to a man,” King Solomon wrote, “but its end is the way of death” (Prov. 14:12).
