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06 Oct 2021

The Abortion Industry Says We Want to Jail Women. Is It True?

Brenna Lewis | October 6, 2021
  Recently, the abortion industry and its supporters have pushed the notion that the pro-life movement wants to sentence women to prison for seeking an abortion or even for miscarrying a child. This is blatantly false… so let’s examine this popular criticism of the Pro-Life movement that is just so wrong. When did this belief become so popular? The conversation
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24 Sep 2021

Pro-Choice Public Writing Professor Accidentally Cites Embryology Textbook

Brenna Lewis | September 24, 2021
  On September 7, 2021, Ms. Magazine published a piece by Carrie Baker titled “Media Repeat Junk Science Behind Abortion Ban Laws: Check the Science — There is No Heartbeat at Six Weeks.” Baker’s not-really-a-heartbeat piece followed the same general format as the many others before it: cite nothing but interviews and replace arguments with ambiguity. [Read more about this approach –
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13 Sep 2021

NPR Interviews Abortion Activists to Determine if Embryos Have Hearts

Brenna Lewis | September 13, 2021
  On Sept 3 (2021) NPR published the article “The Texas Abortion Ban Hinges On ‘Fetal Heartbeat.’ Doctors Call That Misleading” by Selena Simmons-Duffin. In NPR’s tweet of the article, the description said “What an ultrasound detects in an embryo at 6 weeks is electrical activity from cells – not a heart.” Here I will explain the incomplete and inaccurate ideas Simmons-Duffin’s
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02 Sep 2021

The Top 8 Myths About the New Texas Abortion Law

Brenna Lewis | September 2, 2021
  Texas has enacted the nation’s first Heartbeat Act (SB 8), a law that prohibits abortionists from killing preborn babies after a heartbeat is able to be detected by medical equipment. The heartbeat of gestating humans begins around 21 days after fertilization as the heart is one of the first organs to form. The law is unique as it empowers
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01 Sep 2021

The New Texas Abortion Law Isn’t Actually Radical

Brenna Lewis | September 1, 2021
  Abortion supporters are freaking out today as a new Heartbeat Law goes into effect in Texas. The law prohibits abortion after a preborn baby’s heartbeat is able to be detected, which is roughly three weeks after fertilization. It also, uniquely, empowers citizens to act when the law is broken – as a result, it has been hard for corporate
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14 May 2021

Victory! Texas Says No More Aborting Babies with Heartbeats

Brenna Lewis | May 14, 2021
  This week, a major victory took place in Texas with the Texas Heartbeat Bill approaching the final stages of passage. This bill was authored by Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) and sponsored by Representative Shelby Slawson (R-Stephenville) and, starting September 1st, 2021, will outlaw abortions after the baby’s heartbeat can be detected.  But this Texas bill is special in an
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31 Mar 2021

What a Legend! AZ Senator Attaches Abortion Ban to Totally Unrelated Bill about License Plates

Brenna Lewis | March 31, 2021
  A healthy handful of U.S. states are on a roll right now with writing and passing pro-life legislation (some of which pose a formidable challenge to Roe v. Wade – fingers crossed). But the award for the most creative and cheeky pro-life effort has to go to Republican Sen. Sine Kerr of Arizona who this week proposed essentially a Heartbeat
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12 Oct 2020

Public Fetal Heartbeat Display, Judge Costumes, and the Call to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett

Kristi Hamrick | October 12, 2020
Students for Life of America/SFLAction’s Kristan Hawkins calls on the U.S. Senate to Confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court;    Doppler Heartbeat Event reminded Protesters of the Need to Protect Life in Law;   SCOTUS Squad Rallied in Judges’ Wigs and Robes Countering the Handmaid’s Tale Fictional Characters   “Judge Barrett is quite literally the role model for a new
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14 Jul 2020

Federal Judges Can’t Acknowledge That Heartbeats Indicate Life

Brenna Lewis | July 14, 2020
  The state of Georgia garnered national attention in 2019 with their attempt to pass a “heartbeat bill,” legislation that would prohibit abortion when baby’s heartbeat can be detected. A parallel situation just occurred in Tennessee when the court immediately blocked their heartbeat bill minutes after its signing by the governor. The ACLU (supposedly the ‘American Civil Liberties Union’) can chalk up
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28 Feb 2020

SFLA’s “Heart to Heart” Tour Makes Its Way Across the Midwest

Brenna Lewis | February 28, 2020
This semester’s campus tour display, Heart to Heart, will visit dozens of campuses before its conclusion in April 2020. Last week, it made stops across the Midwest, in Kansas & Nebraska. SFLA Regional Coordinator for the Midwest, Connor McCarty, shared some stories from his time on campuses with the tour so far. Wichita State Monday, February 17 Leading up to this stop,
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