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By Paul Stark "With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig." -- A tweet from Richard Dawkins, echoing philosopher Peter Singer, who has made the same comparison. (Dawkins is...
By Sarah Terzo During my research on Planned Parenthood I stumbled across a quote from a Planned Parenthood clinic director that I’d like to share. It is from an old article (Sandra G. Boodman, “The Dearth of Abortion Doctors; Stigma, Low Pay and Lack of...
By Dave Andrusko The capacity of the unborn child to experience pain in all likelihood poses as great a danger to the reign of Roe v. Wade as anything we’ve seen in 40 years. Medical science for decades has treated the unborn as a patient. That makes pro-abortionists...
By Dave Andrusko Still catching up on events that took place while my family and I were on vacation. This post elaborates on a terrific piece written by Kate Yoder for Newsbusters that we have reproduced. (See “MSNBC’s Wagner: Fetal Pain Argument About Taking Away...
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. This article, which first ran in 2011, debunks a study by the...
By Dave Andrusko Over the past decade NRL News and NRL News Today have collectively carried dozens and dozens and DOZENS of articles about the topic of the capacity of the unborn child to feel pain. So when colleagues tell you on your return to work of a must-read...
By Rai Rojas Editor’s note. While my family and I are on vacation, we are running some of our favorite NRL News Today stories from the last four months, entries from our “Roe at 40" series, and an occasional update. When he was about six months old, my grandson and...
By Dave Andrusko Probably because I’d already read a preposterous rewriting of the history of abortion in the United States, by the time I sat down this afternoon to peruse two diatribes against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, I was even less in a mood...
By Dave Andrusko Just after midnight when the Texas Senate passed HB 2, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (who presides over the Senate) tweeted that “Love wins tonight as the Texas Senate stood firmly on the right side of history.” The Texas Senate has just finished rejecting...
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Defenders of late abortions try to argue that the unborn child at twenty weeks is not capable of feeling pain, claiming the connections in the fetal brain are not fully formed. Those who know...