Editor’s note. Yesterday we posted excerpts from four pro-life Republican senators who spoke Monday in support of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. S. 130 received 53 votes, but 60 votes were required to move the bill forward (in the jargon, “invoke...
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Infanticide Makes a Comeback
By Wesley J. Smith It’s not that Democrats support infanticide: They just aren’t against it. What other conclusion can one reach when 44 out of 47 Senate Democrats blocked the Senate from voting on a bill requiring that any baby who survives an abortion — in other...
Infanticide: Between a Woman and Her Doctor?
By Right to Life of Michigan Pro-abortion Senator Gary Peters [D-Mi.] During the 1996 partial-birth abortion debate, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said babies don't receive human rights until they come home from the hospital. Monday night, 44 U.S. Senators affirmed that...
Rep. Reschenthaler Fights to Protect Abortion Survivors, Stop Infanticide
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) furthered Republican efforts to force a vote on H.R. 962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which protects babies born alive after failed abortions. This marks the seventh time Democrats have...
“It’s a discussion worth having”: the born-alive abortion survivor and “fourth trimester abortion”
By Dave Andrusko We have now reached the countdown stage. There are only four more days before the Senate is scheduled to vote whether to proceed (“invoke cloture”) on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. As we come closer to Monday, let’s ponder what a...
Infanticide becomes justifiable
By Wesley J. Smith Photo by Craig via Creative Commons. Image cropped. Fr. Richard John Neuhaus wrote that bioethicists “professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on the way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as...
Tucker blasts pro-abort for dodging VA Gov’s infanticide comments: ‘I think less of you’
By Calvin Freiburger Tucker Carlson January 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson devoted his opening monologue [last] Wednesday evening to Virginia Democrats’ apparent support for infanticide, leading to a firey exchange with a pro-abortion...
National Right to Life Praises Sen. Sasse’s Call for Action on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) today praised Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) for taking to the Senate floor to call for passage of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130). If enacted, the bill would extend federal legal protection...
Late-Term Abortion and Infanticide: Defending the Indefensible
By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation I recall an incident that occurred when I was working as a journalist for the mainstream media. A woman from the pro-abortion lobbying group known as NARAL led a gaggle of reporters to...
The Pagan Logic of Infanticide
Autonomy over Human Dignity By John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera Among the pagan practices vanquished by early Christians was infanticide. As Christianity fades in the West, so do our defenses against infanticide in all its grisly forms. Since its beginning, the...