Abortion

This month marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s hideous decision to legalize abortion on demand in the United States. Since then, some 50 million unborn children have lost their lives. The constant killing, with the blessing of both the government and the media, has coarsened our national life, and deadened the consciences of many.

And for those of us who believe in the sanctity of human life, and the Imago Dei being implanted in every human being, these 39 years have been full of frustration and anguish in our so-far unsuccessful efforts to overturn Roe.

Adding insult to injury, the Obama administration is seeking to increase access to abortion through the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - otherwise known as ObamaCare. According to CitizenLink, “Under ObamaCare regulations, insurance policies would be required to cover free to women all contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and reproductive counseling methods that the Food and Drug Administration has approved.” more >>

A federal judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., recently ended the U.S. attorney general’s “two-year political prosecution” of a pro-life educator who accused of allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

“This is a tremendous victory not just for Susan but for the First Amendment and the pro-life movement,” Harry Mihet, senior litigation counsel for Liberty Counsel, commented. “Attorney General Holder sought to use federal law as a billy club against pro-lifers, but received instead a clobbering from the very Constitution he had sworn to protect. Freedom-loving Americans everywhere should rejoice.”

According to the Liberty Counsel, Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously sought to fine Mary Susan Pine, founder of a nonprofit pro-life organization called F.A.C.E. (Faith, Action, Counseling and Education), thousands of dollars as well as ban her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside of the Presidential Women’s Center abortion clinic for purportedly obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic in November of 2009. more >>

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is defending his abortion views against an ad from the Newt Gingrich campaign accusing him of making pro-abortion decisions when he was governor of Massachusetts.

“What happened after Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney changed his position from pro-abortion to pro-life?” the ad asks. “He governed pro-abortion.”

The ad claims that Romney appointed a pro-abortion judge, expanded access to abortion pills, put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board while failing to put a pro-life group on the same board, and signed government mandated healthcare with taxpayer funded abortions. more >>

Southern Baptist churches will commemorate Sanctity of Life month on Jan. 15. Several Kentucky Baptist-affiliated pregnancy resource centers are set to speak at these churches Sunday.

The Central Kentucky Crisis pregnancy center is one of 49 pregnancy care centers participating in Sanctity of Life this weekend.

Marcia Gilbert, director of the center, told The Christian Post that their organization will speak at Southern Baptist churches regarding the fight for pro-life, the current state of the country’s pro-life movement, and what the center does to help someone in a crisis pregnancy. more >>

A women's facility in Ohio that offers adoption services in addition to an abortion clinic appears to be setting the pace for new clinical standards that could potentially reduce the number of abortions in the U.S. and alter the landscape of productive care.

The Choice Network, which has four facilities throughout Ohio, is unique in that it offers women with unplanned pregnancies the full spectrum of options – all available on site. Founder Molly Thomas Rampe says the clinic provides an essential service to women.

"[We] make sure that women are making an informed choice; that when men and women enter the clinic that they know all the options," Rampe told The Christian Post Friday. more >>

Pro-life advocates in Arkansas submitted to the state attorney general’s office a revised state constitution amendment to give rights to the unborn in the hopes that the measure will make it to the 2012 ballot, and eventually force a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Roe vs. Wade.

Personhood Arkansas submitted the document for approval Wednesday, exactly a week after its first proposed amendment was rejected.

State Attorney General Dustin McDaniel rejected the measure last week citing several phrases that he believed were ambiguous and undefined. more >>