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Posts tagged "pro-choice"

Pro-Choice Activist Gets Prison for Sending Pro-Lifers Death Threats

Death threats don’t always come from the right, as this article in LifeNews.com points out. Father Frank Pavone , director of Priests for Life, made this observation: Pavone added, “From the point of view of my work as a pro-life leader, I also take this opportunity to point out that violence and threats of violence... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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Is a fetus a parasite?

Some folks got their noses out of joint when I wrote about the debate in my Chicago Tribune op-ed column. (View it here. And be sure to read the comments posted below the column to get the flavor of the wrath that I incurred.) What do you think? poll by twiigs.com... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm
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Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) once was pro-choice too

The Daily Beast writes about Rick Santorum’s wife, Karen with this headline: The GOP contender’s hard-core pro-life wife once dated an abortion provider. What follows is a 1,300-word article describing Karen’s live-in relationship in her 20s with anobstetrician who provided abortions. Now, we’re informed that she is “hard-core pro-life,” the implication being that she and, I... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 16, 2012 at 12:25 pm
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At last, Illinois supreme court agrees to hear arguments in long-stymied parental notification law

Sixteen years ago, the Illinois Legislature enacted a law requiring a parent or guardian to be notified 48 hours before a child under 18 has an abortion. This reasonable requirement still hasn’t been enforced because pro-choice radicals like the American Civil Liberties Union have for years tied the law up in the courts, defying the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm
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Abortion compromise on 'informed consent'?

One of the many contentious issues in the abortion debate is whether women planning the procedure should be “fully informed” of the risks. Pro-lifers think they should; pro-choicers think they shouldn’t. Or at least the government shouldn’t prescribe what doctors must say to patients. Who can argue against patients having a chance to give their... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 18, 2011 at 8:30 am
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Why Stupek, who won't run again, is under pro-life fire

Well, that didn’t take long. Seventy-eight percent of the voters in his northern Michigan district said they oppose public funding of abortion in health care legislation, according to polling by the Susan B. Anthony List. It didn’t take long for Rep. Bart Stupek, the Democrat who engineered passage of the health car law–without the public... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 9, 2010 at 12:35 pm
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Good Friday pro-life protest at Aurora abortion clinic

Beth Thrun of Batavia says the rosary outside the offices of Planned Parenthood in Aurora. (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune) After winning a settlement in a free speech lawsuit filed against the city of Aurora, pro-life demonstrators have set a protest outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the far southwest suburb. The pro-life groups... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 1, 2010 at 8:13 pm
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Evidence of the abortion/breast cancer link

Nothing rockets pro-choice militants into orbit faster than scientific evidence that abortion increases the risk breast cancer. Despite their insistence that ALL the scientific evidence “proves” that there is no link, quite the opposite is true. A recent study indicates that abortion increases the risk of a certain type of breast cancer by 40 percent... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2010 at 12:32 pm
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She had 15 abortions...

before she decided to keep her next two children alive. This is a most amazing story, and now Irene Vilar is writing about it in a new book Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict. You may not want to read the book (I probably will), but if this subject interests you, you’ll certainly want... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 13, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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