Many pro-life activists have been writing and conversing this past week about Senator Marco Rubio’s recent defense of his no exceptions position, while he justifies his sponsorship of rape-exception legislation. As someone conceived in rape and nearly aborted, I’m grateful for his verbal defense of every life, no matter how conceived, but I’m also deeply troubled by some of his comments […]
Today is my birthday. I’m not at all ashamed to tell my age because it’s very relevant. I was born July 22, 1969 — exactly 10 months before the hearing date in Texas in Roe v Wade, and exactly 3-1/2 years to the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S.. I was conceived when […]
7-month pregnant gang rape survivor denied a late-term abortion by the Gujurat high court in India. With those kinds of news stories, we regularly see organizations like Amnesty International and Planned Parenthood International utilizing such stories to demand the legalization of abortion through all nine of months of pregnancy – not only for rape, but […]
After passing the U.S. Senate 99 to 0, our model legislation from Hope After Rape Conception — the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act (H.R. 1257) — was signed into law by President Obama on Friday! Our co-founders from HARC, Shauna Prewitt and Analyn Megison worked very hard on this, working closely with House sponsor Congresswoman […]
Why should I have to prove my worth and my right to life? When I first learned at the age of 18 that I was conceived in rape, I instantly felt targeted and devalued by our society because I’d heard what people said about pregnancy “in cases of rape.” Right away, I felt I was […]
Will the 20 Week Ban Save Babies? ~by Darlene Pawlik HR 36 Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is Back The Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives has announced that it will bring the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to the House floor for a vote on Wednesday, May 13, or Thursday, May […]
About a month ago, I first heard about the Montana “Unborn Child Pain and Suffering Act,” (HB 479) which is their version of the “Pain-Capable” bill. However, instead of banning late-term abortions based upon the premise that unborn children feel pain, this bill, as now passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor for […]
It all started with a text: “Can you drive five hours to Santa Fe to testify before the NM Judiciary Committee on Friday?” Rebecca Kiessling, a dear friend of mine and Founder and President of Save the 1 — for which I am a pro-life speaker and writer, wanted me to go to a hearing […]
New Mexico is currently the late-term capitol of America, so understandably, with a new Republican majority in the House, pro-life legislators and activists are making a push to get late-term abortion banned in New Mexico. Although New Mexico also has a pro-life Republican Governor – Susana Martinez, it still has a solidly Democrat-controlled Senate (25-17.) […]
Pro-life leaders, pundits and bloggers are up in arms now because Republican Congresswoman Renee Ellmers — NC, (along with at least five other female Republicans,) is protesting the terms of the rape exception within the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – H.R. 36, also known as the 20-week abortion ban. As written, the late-term abortion […]