Stories tagged with: sanctity of life

• Trump: 'Proud to stand' with pro-life marchers

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, January 24, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- President Donald Trump told participants at the 47th March for Life Friday (Jan. 24) he was "truly proud to stand" with them as the first chief executive of the United States to speak in person at the annual event.

  Speaking to tens of thousands of pro-lifers, Trump said, "It is my profound honor to be the first president in history to attend the March for Life. We're here for a very simple reason -- to defend the right of every child born and unborn to fulfill their God-given potential." Read More

• Surge in abortion restrictions bolsters 2020 March for Life

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, January 24, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- As pro-life advocates marched on Washington Friday (Jan. 24), state legislatures had passed 58 abortion restrictions in 2019. But measures providing the most protection for the unborn are blocked in court.

  Nearly half of the restrictions enacted in 2019, 25, would ban all or at least some abortions, Guttmacher Institute reported, setting the stage for Supreme Court challenges to Roe v. Wade 47 years after its passage. Read More

• Trump first president slated to attend March for Life

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, January 23, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pro-life advocates are applauding President Donald Trump's decision to attend the 47th annual March for Life rally Friday (Jan. 24) at noon on the National Mall in Washington.

  "He will be the first president in history to attend and we are so excited for him to experience in person how passionate our marchers are about life and protecting the unborn," March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a press statement. Read More

• Church celebrates life with baby dedications

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Tuesday, January 21, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  NORMAN, Okla., (BP) -- Providence Road Church in Norman, Okla., dedicated 12 babies during their Sunday morning service Jan. 19 to celebrate Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.

  Jay Frymire, director of operations and ministries at Providence Road, said in the past the celebration was held on Mother's Day, but the church decided this year to highlight Sanctity of Life Sunday with the dedications instead. Read More

• Foster family plays critical role in youth minister's journey to Christ

  by Tobin Perry, posted Tuesday, January 14, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Shaq Hardy

  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (BP) -- Much of Shaq Hardy's childhood is a blur. For the first 10 years of his life, he moved from foster home to foster home, never able to put down roots.

  Hardy longed for a sense of home, a place where he belonged.

  But what Hardy does remember during that frantic decade in foster care is where he learned John 3:16 and how much Jesus loved him. Although he wouldn't come to faith in Christ until five years after he left his last foster home, this last family introduced him to Jesus. For the last several years he was in foster care, the family took him to church just about every week and even involved him in Awana. That's where he learned John 3:16. Read More

• Michelle Williams credits Golden Globe to 'right to choose'

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, January 13, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (BP) -- In an acceptance speech at the annual Golden Globe Awards Jan. 5, actress Michelle Williams credited her success to the "right to choose when to have children and with whom."

  Williams received the award for Best performance by an actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role in "Fosse/Verdon," an FX Network series. Read More

• Two ultrasound machines, hundreds of lives saved

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, January 13, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Sandy Ward

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Amory's life changed forever when she saw those two blue lines on the pregnancy test. Thinking it was a false positive, she took it again, and again, three more times.

  Amory had just finished graduate school, accepted her first job as a speech-language pathologist, moved into her own apartment and finally found a guy who she believed liked her back. However, their relationship was rocky, and Amory had no idea how he would react to the idea of being a father. Although in that moment, Amory's life as she knew it seemed to crash down, her story did not end there. Read More

• Planned Parenthood reports increased number of abortions

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, January 08, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) 2018-2019 annual report released Monday (Jan. 6) showed that the organization performed 345,672 abortion procedures in 2018.

  Abortions made up 4 percent of the organization's total medical services for the year. The total number of the procedures increased by 13,000 from the previous year. Read More

• ERLC urges ruling for abortion doctor requirement

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, January 08, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- A law requiring an abortion doctor to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital should be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as the "legitimate interest" of a state in protecting the lives and health of women, the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics entity told the justices.

  The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) filed a friend-of-the-court brief Jan. 2 that urged the high court to affirm a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding a 2014 Louisiana law intended to protect women who suffer complications from abortion. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled March 4. Read More

• Supreme Court upholds Kentucky abortion law

  by Mark Maynard and Tom Latek/Kentucky Today, posted Monday, December 09, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pro-life supporters in Kentucky were pleased with a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions.

  The justices did not comment in refusing to review an appeals court ruling that upheld the law.

  The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the law on behalf of Kentucky's lone ... Read More