Stories tagged with: sanctity of life

• New report shows abortions continue to decline

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, December 04, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The latest statistics demonstrate once again reported abortions in the United States have continued to decline.

  The number of abortions fell in one year by more than 13,000 to 623,471 in 2016, the latest year for which data is available, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Nov. 29 report. That 2 percent drop matched a 2 percent decrease in the abortion rate to 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, according to the CDC. The abortion ratio -- the number of abortions per 1,000 live births -- decreased by 1 percent to 188 in the same time period. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The Manhattan Declaration: Ten Years Later

  by Nathan A. Finn, posted Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  The Manhattan Declaration issued a clarion call that was clearly necessary 10 years ago, Nathan Finn says. Subsequent events have shown this call is even more important in 2019. Read More

• Pro-lifers decry court win for Planned Parenthood

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, November 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  SAN FRANCISCO (BP) -- Pro-life advocates decried an award of more than $2.2 million to Planned Parenthood in a suit involving undercover investigations that provided evidence the country's leading abortion provider traded in the sale of baby body parts.

  A federal jury in San Francisco issued the penalties Nov. 15 against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and, among others, two investigators who secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood executives discussing their sale of fetal parts, as well as their willingness to manipulate the abortion procedure to preserve organs for sale and use. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt also clandestinely recorded conversations with officials of fetal tissue procurement businesses that worked with Planned Parenthood. Read More

• Christian clinics to offer contraceptives to singles

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, November 08, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- A network of Christian women's health centers in Texas offering the Gospel to all clients will begin providing contraceptives in March, 2020, to single women, according to the network's CEO who is a Southern Baptist evangelical.

  The Source, a merger of eight formerly independent Christian crisis pregnancy centers, sees the new service as the best way to fulfill the biblical mandate to love your neighbor as yourself, CEO Andy Schoonover told Baptist Press Friday (Nov. 8). Read More

• Psalm 139 Project, partners place ultrasound in N.C.

  by BP Staff, posted Monday, October 28, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission's Psalm 139 Project, an initiative dedicated to aiding pregnancy resource centers in securing ultrasound machines and providing training, partnered with Human Coalition and six area churches to place an ultrasound machine at Human Coalition's Raleigh Women's Clinic in Raleigh, N.C.

  ERLC President Russell Moore was joined by leaders from Human Coalition's Raleigh Women's Clinic for a special dedication ceremony Oct. 24 at the clinic. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: AI, sentience and human life

  by Dan DeWitt, posted Wednesday, October 23, 2019 (4 years ago)

  Cedarville University apologist Dan DeWitt explores artificial intelligence and God's creation in affirming of the sanctity of human life. "God is the author of life," DeWitt says, "and try as some might, no one can take His place." Read More

• California's new abortion-on-campus law

  by Harvest Prude/WORLD , posted Monday, October 14, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP) -- California becomes the first state to require all public universities to offer abortion-inducing pills to students on campus. The bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, on Friday (Oct. 11) takes effect in 2023.

  The medications, taken in two doses, are commonly prescribed to women who are less than 10 weeks pregnant. Read More

• Pro-lifers welcome review of Louisiana law

  by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, October 09, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pro-life advocates have commended the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to consider the constitutionality of a Louisiana pro-life law, potentially setting up what abortion-rights supporters say would be the repudiation of a ruling by the justices that is only three years old.

  The high court announced Oct. 4 it would review a lower court opinion regarding a Louisiana requirement that an abortion doctor must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans had upheld the 2014 law, which is intended to protect the health and lives of women who suffer complications from abortion. Read More

• COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: Grounded in the Gospel

  by Russell Moore, posted Thursday, October 03, 2019 (4 years ago)

  The Cooperative Program, Russell Moore writes, undergirds the Ethnics & Religious Liberty Commission in "equipping our churches and contending for the faith in the midst of a hostile culture." Read More

• Judge partially upholds Virginia infant protections

  by Rachel Lynn Aldrich/WORLD , posted Tuesday, October 01, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va.(BP) -- A federal judge on Monday (Sept. 30) upheld some Virginia laws protecting unborn babies while overturning others.

  U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson gave the green light to a law requiring women to receive an ultrasound at least 24 hours before an abortion, as well as one mandating that licensed physicians carry out the procedures. Read More