This year marks six years since the tragic and untimely death of Terri Schindler Schiavo by dehydration and starvation at the hands of her husband. Life Legal Defense Foundation’s Board of Directors and staff want to honor Terri’s memory by once again remembering Terri on the anniversary of her death, March 31. We will never …
By Wesley J. Smith, J.D. UK scientists announced that they will ask the rarely-says-no UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) for permission to implant an IVF embryo that is biologically related to three parents (two women and one man). The genetically modified embryo will be created by taking the mitochondrial DNA from a second …
Life Legal Defense Foundation joins San Francisco Bay Area pro-lifers in celebrating the closure of Golden Gate Community Health (GGCH). GGCH was the successor corporation to Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG), the organization that last summer was stripped of its affiliate status by Planned Parenthood Federation of America amidst allegations of financial and administrative mismanagement. …
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GOLDEN GATE SUCCESSOR CLOSES SAN FRANCISCO AREA ABORTION CLINICS Read More »
LLDF held its Annual Benefit on November 18, 2010. The venue was the Terrace Room at the Lake Merritt Hotel in Oakland, California. The Terrace Room is a 1920s art deco supper club with a panoramic view of Lake Merritt. Throughout the evening, the lake presented a backdrop of city lights sparkling over the water. …
Radical Feminism, Abortion and the Ruination of Romance: The 2010 LLDF Annual Benefit Read More »
Every semester, volunteers from Project Truth, with the legal assistance of LLDF attorneys, travel to California college campuses to educate students about abortion and its consequences. In one instance, a college administrator challenged Project Truth member Don Blythe about the group’s methods and make up. This is his response. I want to thank you for …
For almost two decades, attorney Harold Cassidy of Red Bank, New Jersey has litigated on behalf of post-abortive women. He was instrumental in the drafting and passage of South Dakota’s informed consent law, which requires abortionists to inform women that an abortion “terminates the life of a whole, separate, unique human being.” Last year, he …
Attorney Terry O’Malley of Colorado leads the defense for a current case involving an experienced sidewalk counselor who maintains a regular presence outside abortion clinics. The case, which hinges on First Amendment free speech principles, is Mr. O’Malley’s second pro bono case for Life Legal Defense Foundation. A graduate of the University of Kansas School …
Upon the Republican Party winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Marco Antonio Rubio, the junior U.S. Senator from Florida (and what some are calling the rising star of the Tea Party), said “We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party. …
