Community View: Abortion clinic law is too vague

by: RAYMOND W. BELAIR

REF: the clinic access bill, Last year, the Legislature's Committee on Legislation considered an earlier version of the bill just passed. Witnesses offering testimony to the committee were unable to confirm that anything was taking place at Westchester clinics that justified the proposed legislation. As Legislator Sheila Marcotte, R-Tuckahoe, recently confirmed, the most egregious behavior observed was the offer of a cup of water by a pro-life advocate to a young woman approaching a clinic entrance.  more...

What Kathleen Sebelius is NOT telling us about Women's Health

by: C.J. Williams

"It's Your Time!" is this year's National Women's Health Week tagline. However, in the midst of the frenzy over federally mandated healthcare, election year skirmishes and the so-called "War on Women," it might seem a little difficult to figure out exactly what healthcare means...Sebelius argues that, by providing more birth control, specifically oral contraception and abortion, women will have a better quality of life. In other words, if we can just "cure" our fertility, life will be much better. But fertility is not an illness!   more...

The media's hijacking of pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng's message

by: Dennis Byrne

Whatever fate awaits pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, we know two things for sure: The Chinese tyrants will continue to force women to kill their wanted children. And President Barack Obama, who has ramped up the campaign fiction that Republicans have declared a "war on women," will continue the detente with the real war on women, in Communist China, where real blood is being shed in a fanatical crusade against mothers and their children.   more...

If abortion saves lives … what’s happening in Chile?

by: Andrea Mrozek

A peer-reviewed study published last week examines 50 years of data and concludes that the trajectory of maternal mortality in the South American country has consistently declined, decreasing from 293.7 in 1957 to 18.2 in 2007 (per 100,000 live births)...Yet Chile outlawed abortion in 1989. Chile didn’t just place small restrictions on abortion — it outlawed abortion without exception...  more...

They're Not Human Beings--So Welcome to the Buffet

by: Jonathon Van Maren

As if China needed any more negative press on their barbaric One Child Policy after blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng’s dramatic escape from house arrest, multiple news outlets are now reporting that South Korean officials have seized thousands of capsules and pills that reportedly contain the powdered flesh of fetuses and babies.  more...

THE PROLIFE MOVEMENT–THE SONG OF FREEDOM

by: Ryan Bomberger

The world is moved by music. There is, perhaps, no more compelling construction than a melody to elevate and embolden a cause. Anti-slavery abolitionists understood its power and its ability to sustain them when defeat loomed all around. The “Song of the Abolitionist”, written by the leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison, served as a source of encouragement. Abolitionists were the targets of intense political persecution and verbal and physical violence. Garrison, himself, was brutally attacked for his anti-slavery beliefs, nearly lynched in Boston by a pro-slavery mob. Several stanzas in his song could be a rallying cry for today’s Pro-Life/Anti-Abortion movement:  more...