Wesley J. Smith Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell (in …
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Wesley J. Smith The Obama administration pulled another fast one when it announced its much-anticipated “compromise” on the free-birth-control rule as it affects religious employers opposed to contraception. There was hope in some quarters that the administration would back off its narrow religious exemption. Alas, a careful reading of the proposed rule shows that instead …
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S. Adam Seagrave When intellectual arguments against abortion fail to persuade, recourse must be had to images and strategies that awake what David Hume considered our “moral sense.” Roe v. Wade is often compared to the infamous Dred Scott decision, and much has insightfully been made of the parallels between the issues of slavery and …
Dana Cody, President of Life Legal Defense Foundation, was privileged to be part of the National Law Tour sponsored by Students for Life of America. The tour, entitled 40 Years of a Deadly Legal Anomaly and the Downfall of Planned Parenthood, included presentations by an impressive array of attorneys and others active in the pro-life …
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Katie Short Looking out on this crowd, I would estimate that about three out of four of you here were not born when Roe v. Wade was decided 40 years ago. And that’s a good thing. Actuarially speaking, we are so much better off than the other side. So what was Roe v. Wade? For …
On September 7th, 2013, Dana Cody & Allison Aranda of Life Legal Defense Foundation will present a powerful seminar focused on the free speech rights of pro-life advocates in the Southeast: Life and Freedom: Protect Your Rights or Lose Them? This seminar is open to the public at no cost and will take place from 10:00 …
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(June 24, 2013 – Washington DC) The Supreme Court announced today that it will review a decision of the First Circuit upholding a Massachusetts law that severely restricts the free speech of pro-life advocates. In McCullen v. Coakley, seven Massachusetts residents who engaged in pro-life counseling outside of abortion clinics challenged a state statute creating …
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In a vote on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” (HR 1797) by a vote of 228-196. Six Democrats voted in favor, and six Republicans voted against the bill. Thank you to everyone who contacted your member of Congress to support this historic legislation. It …
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States is scheduled to consider petitions for certiorari review in three cases of interest to pro-life advocates. In Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice the lower court held that requiring abortion providers who dispense the RU-486 abortion pill to adhere to Federal Food and Drug Administration …
Pro-Life and Pro-Abortion Laws Considered for Review at Supreme Court Read More »
Living consistently with one’s personal pro-life convictions takes courage, and sometimes comes at significant cost. Katie, a veteran of the United States Military, returned to school as a surgical technician student at a university in Virginia. She was looking forward to graduation in June 2013; all she had left was completion of her clinical phase …
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