Category: ProLife Laws

Honduras Just Put Respect for Preborn Life in their Constitution
Brenna Lewis | February 2, 2021
As January came to a close, lawmakers in Honduras took a big step in protecting the lives of their most vulnerable citizens by amending their constitution. The new amendment prohibits the “interruption of life” of a fetus, “whose life must be respected from the moment of conception.” This Central American nation was already among the most pro-life in the

Abortion Cases on the List for the Supreme Court this Year
Jessica Nardi | February 2, 2021
There’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the U.S Supreme Court right now. Yes, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a champion for pro-life women, was confirmed but the continued swirls of whether President Biden will “pack” the court with abortion supporting justices is another question. Meanwhile, there’s a series of abortion-related cases that may be heard by SCOTUS this year. CBSNEWS

North Dakota Judges Forced to Allow Down Syndrome Abortions Even Though They’re “Eugenic”
Brenna Lewis | January 20, 2021
Something unusual happened recently in a courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota. Two federal appeals judges, Ralph Erickson and Bobby Shepherd, were reviewing an Arkansas bill that would make it illegal to target babies with Down Syndrome for abortion. They wanted the bill to be allowed. But a 1992 judicial precedent forced them to deem it unconstitutional. So what did

Did the Pro-Life Movement Cause an Increase in Late-Term Abortions?
Brenna Lewis | January 14, 2021
The abortion lobby says yes. But the numbers tell a different story. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published a study specific to Texas that assessed the state’s postponement of surgical abortion during the early months of COVID. The conclusion of the study seems certain that late-term abortion numbers increased as a result (something the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute

What Removing the Hyde Amendment Really Means
Jessica Nardi | January 11, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden has adamantly supported discarding the Hyde Amendment during his presidential campaign and that hasn’t changed as it gets closer to Inauguration Day. In short, the Hyde Amendment protects taxpayers from having their tax dollars used to fund abortions. Here’s what removing the Hyde Amendment actually means for Americans. What is the Hyde Amendment? The Hyde Amendment

This Texas City Council Refused to be a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn”
Brenna Lewis | November 21, 2020
Texas is working to make abortion illegal and unthinkable, one city at a time, through the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn initiative. In Lubbock, TX, this effort has been with significant efforts from a student, Katherine Cochran, who is the Students for Life Industry Impact Captain in Texas. She, along with other Raiders Defending Life at the Texas Tech

American Pollsters Need to Re-Think Their Career Paths
Brenna Lewis | November 4, 2020
If we thought the pollsters (and the media) screwed up big time in the 2016 Presidential election… their failure this time is enough that they may want to rethink their careers. In fairness to them, it’s a tumultuous time in our history. But they were still wrong about their election predictions across the board. Don’t let the media and pollsters

Meet Lauren, a Colorado Mom Working to End Late-Term Abortion
Brenna Lewis | November 2, 2020
Coloradans this election have the opportunity to vote on something BIG – and it’s all thanks to an army of pro-life advocates in the Denver area who made it happen. Currently, it’s legal in Colorado to abort a child up until birth for any reason. This beautiful, mountain state is one of seven states in the U.S. with this

Pro-Life Values Are Under Attack… Look What They’re Doing in Poland
Brenna Lewis | October 30, 2020
Students for Life has documented many incidents against pro-lifers—from harassment, to vandalism of sidewalk chalk displays, to assaults against staff members—and it’s downright dangerous how violent the abortion movement has become. Such violence doesn’t merely occur in the Untied States, though. After Poland’s Constitutional Court ruled abortions in cases of “a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable life-threatening disease,” to

Things You Need to Know about Legal Abortion
Jessica Nardi | October 29, 2020
Why do Roe and Doe Matter? In 1973 Roe v. Wade along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton were decided on the same day, allowing abortion on demand in the United States. Through a constitutional “right to privacy” Roe enabled unrestricted abortions with no exceptions or regulations, while Doe legalized abortion on demand for the full nine months