Abortion

"Personhood" battles have begun in Colorado and Montana.

Pro-lifers recently launched ballot initiatives to protect the unborn in their state and lay a stepping stone to someday overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.

In Colorado, pro-life groups introduced new language after a failed attempt in 2008. The amendment this time leaves out the word "fertilization," which the groups say confused voters, and defines a person as simply "every human being from the beginning of biological development of that human being." more >>

The anti-abortion activist charged with killing late-term abortion doctor George Tiller has been communicating from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable.

According to The Associated Press, Scott Roeder has been sending anti-abortion pamphlets that laud Paul Hill, who was executed in 2003 for murdering an abortion provider, as an American hero.

The pamphlets include Hill's writings which justify the killing of abortion providers. more >>

A pro-life group's national headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, was attacked on Friday by an unidentified suspect who remains at large.

Operation Rescue filed a report with the police after a man on a bicycle attempted to disable the office's security system.

Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, was among four people who were working at the office at the time. He reported hearing noise outside the office in the afternoon and caught the suspect through the security cameras attempting to gain access to the roof. more >>

A federal appeals court upheld Virginia's ban on partial-birth abortion, reversing an earlier ruling that had declared it unconstitutional.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals wrote in his opinion, "The fact is that we – civilized people – are retreating to the haven of our Constitution to justify dismembering a partly born child and crushing its skull. Surely centuries hence, people will look back on this gruesome practice done in the name of fundamental law by a society of high achievement. And they will shudder.”

"A partially born child is among the weakest, most helpless beings in our midst and on that account exerts a special claim on our protection," Wilkinson added. more >>

Southern Baptists passed a resolution Wednesday, celebrating the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president while at the same time denouncing some of the president's recent actions on such issues as homosexuality and abortion.

"Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention ... share our nation's pride in our continuing progress toward racial reconciliation signaled by the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President," the resolution states.

It passed with a near unanimous vote during SBC's annual meeting in Louisville, Ky. more >>