A flagrant celebration of abortion as a public and personal good, essential to both “freedom” and to “healthcare.”
Why Abortion Advocates No Longer Consider It “A Necessary Evil”
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Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar wrongly claims most women seek health care at Planned Parenthood
Wildly inaccurate statement prompts response “Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s statement that ‘a great majority of women in this country get their health care’ from Planned Parenthood is demonstrably false,” said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) Executive Director...
Tell Congress: Abortion is NOT Healthcare
By Carol Tobias, President The American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation that would repeal and replace major portions of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (more commonly known as Obamacare), will be voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives this...
The right of conscientious objection goes to the heart of medical practice as a moral activity
By Dave Andrusko We’ve covered the battle over freedom of conscience without fail for decades. Beyond an absolute “right” to abortion on demand, paid for by you and me, next to “normalizing abortion,” pro-abortions want most of all the ability to conscript the medical...
No one who believes abortion is wrong should ever be forced to participate in the killing of a fellow human being.
Imagine being forced, against your will, to participate in abortion – the deliberate killing of an innocent child. That would never happen in America, right? Wrong! A long-standing federal law known as the Weldon Amendment exists to guarantee that health care entities...
Canadian doctors have developed a new technique for treating brain tumors
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition One of the more devastating diagnosis is to be told that you have a brain tumor. Brittany Maynard died by physician-assisted suicide last year to avoid living with a brain tumor. California...
Jerry Brown Vetoes Right to Try and Live Bill
By Wesley J. Smith This makes zero sense. Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed assisted suicide into law in California. This week, he vetoed a bill that would have allowed dying patients to access experimental drugs in an attempt to live. From the Sacramento Bee story:...
“A New Ethic for Medicine and Society”
Editor’s note. This first ran in the March 11, 1998, issue of National Right to Life News. I am re-running it today for two reasons. First, it serves as an important history lesson for those who have not been in the Movement as long as some of us veterans. In the...
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is taking a dangerous position on conscience rights
By Patricia Maloney The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), wants to change how doctors are required to refer for care. Their draft policy, Professional Obligations and Human Rights states: “Where physicians are unwilling to provide certain...
Told to abort, mother seeks second opinion and baby—“a fighter” —is born healthy
By Dave Andrusko Not to pick on the medical profession as a profession, but where have you heard this before? A baby, Angel Gomez, is alive—and doing well—but wouldn’t be here at all if the mother had listened to her doctor. Yesenia Torres was 21 weeks pregnant...