Pelican Project Pro-Life

A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently – but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort. Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article. “I’ve called her sister several times, and she never responded,”

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Christian Concern for our NationA pro-life group is challenging Northern Ireland’s Government guidelines on abortion at the High Court in an attempt to quash the Government’s current advice which was published in March 2009.The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) is claiming that the abortion guidance issued to health professionals is misleading and legally inaccurate. The group is seeking a High Court declaration (judicial review) that it does not properly set out the law.Abort

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October is Sex Ed Month of Action and organizers from Advocates for Youth , Catholics for Choice , Choice USA , Law Students for Reproductive Justice , NARAL Pro-Choice America , Planned Parenthood , Sexuality Information Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) , Sierra Club , and Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom (SYRF) have joined forces to tell Congress it’s time for the federal government to get REAL about sex education. It is time to start funding comprehensive approaches

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The folks at NBC’s long-running legal franchise Law & Order must have thought they’d garner headlines and praise for their ” balanced, thought-provoking ” take on abortion last Friday, an episode called ” Dignity ” based on the murder of an abortion provider. But balanced it was not: an episode that was meant to focus on the prosecution of a cold-blooded murder ended up putting women’s rights on trial–and viewers picked up on its slant right away. Immediate twitter an

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by Kelli Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs… Albert Mohler writes about the growing realization that the feminist movement was “not about happiness”… Nevertheless, as [Maureen] Dowd notes, feminism has served to increase the burdens upon women, even as it promised to open doors. … In reality, feminism was never only about opening doors for women… [T]he feminist movement aspired to nothing short of a total social, moral, and cultura

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College students from across the state of Oklahoma are taking a stand on Oklahoma’s newest abortion law, enacting the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act. In a response to this legislation, the students are planning Reproductive Rights Week on the campus of the University of Oklahoma and all events will culminate with a statewide protest at the Oklahoma State Capitol on November 6, at 9am. The legislation, H.B 1595, is a new provision on Oklahoma abortion laws that now requires an official re

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by JivinJ At the pro-choice blog Feministing , a blogger named Rose shares bits of a conversation she had with Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards regarding health care and abortion and the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet isn’t happy with the Princetonian’s portrayal of his organization and its description of their protest against Singer . Friends of Scott Roeder (the alleged killer of George Tiller ) are planni

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NBC’s venerable crime procedural, “Law & Order,” has endured a fair amount of deserved criticism around here lately. Big Hollywood’s thoughtful critiques of the show’s leftward slide and irksome predictability are, sadly, valid. Like many L&O fans, I’ve been forced to admit that recent seasons have been quite disappointing. The word “cancellation” has cropped up in my mind more than once. That being said, this season has been refreshingly solid. Aside from the atrocious “Let’s

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One of the most notorious far-right activists is Randall Terry, who founded the organization Operation Rescue , a radical anti-choice group. In the past, Terry has warned that he and his followers would engage in terrorism unless Congress excludes funding for abortions in health care legislation, launched a “ Defeat Sotomayor ” campaign that depicted the Supreme Court judge as a skull-faced killer, and used the occasion of the assassination of George Tiller to declare that the doctor, who per

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KansasCity.com Editorial Calls for Stop to eBay Auction for Roeder An editorial today at KansasCity.com calls on eBay to reject a proposed auction by anti-choice extremists to raise money for the defense of Scott Roeder, (he editorial mistakenly identifies “Dennis” Roeder), the man who murdered Dr. George Tiller in his church on May 31st of this year. But, the editorial goes on to say, those who call themselves “pro-life” must also be vocal in opposing this auction. “The onus for

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