Essays, arguments, and commentary from The Lifeguard Initiative.
In 2019, during an interview on CNN, one of the Democratic presidential candidates Seth Moulton expressed a desire to see the removal of laws barring federal funding from going to abortion. “I think it’s wrong. It disproportionately attacks women who don’t have the private means to afford an abortion. It’s sort of like saying, you
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Given how often we are accused of hypocrisy for not supporting contraception, it often comes as a surprise to many people to learn that the majority of pro-life advocates are not, in fact, anti-contraception. Conservatives are generally portrayed by the media and pro-choice advocates as being opposed to contraception, wanting to take away birth control
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Ectopic pregnancy is often seen as a clear case for abortion, but the truth is more complicated than that.
Ectopic Pregnancy: The Rare Hope Beyond Abortion Read More »
For women with a tubal pregnancy, abortion is presented as the only solution. But it’s not, and the facts are rarely discussed.
Can a Baby Survive a Tubal Pregnancy? Read More »
A court case that changed America and affected the lives of millions. Roe V. Wade is a continuous battle for pro-lifers and we must keep up the good fight on behalf of the unborn. Overturning Roe is the path we must take to help America become a country that is truly rooted in what the
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The Pro-Life Movement Is Fundamentally About Human Equality.
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As pro-life advocates, we are often asked why we expend so much effort on trying to prevent abortion, instead of focusing on trying to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Pro-choice advocates and politicians in particular are often quick to suggest that we should forgo trying to enact policy to prevent abortions entirely and
Why Don’t Pro-Life Advocates Support Policies to Reduce Unwanted Pregnancies? Read More »
Viability is often used by pro-choice advocates as a tool for establishing when the unborn child should be considered a person with legal rights and protections, and it is a principle that is widely used in society as a basis for law when it comes to abortion. For such a prevalent basis for policy, it
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As election day in the US draws near, people across the nation are weighing their choices, trying to make that final decision of who they are going to support. It is never an easy decision, and as always voters are asking themselves, where do the candidates stand on key issues, and what are they likely
The Track Records of Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris on Abortion Read More »
Pro-choice advocates often criticize pro-life organizations established to help support pregnant women and their children as spreading what pro-choice advocates view as false or misleading information about abortion and women’s health. In particular, pro-choice advocates often point to information about abortion and breast cancer provided by some pro-life organizations as an example of such misinformation.
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A month after first learning of the atrocities of what abortion really is, I decided to delve into researching the child’s life before they take their first breath. Then, I decided from that moment on I would be a pro-life advocate. Defending the rights of the most innocent and helpless. As time went on, I
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On April 6, 1977, Gianna Jessen was bathed in a saline solution meant to end her life. Her biological mother was 17 years old, and seven and a half months pregnant when she decided to get the abortion. It failed. Initially, Jessen was not expected to survive. She was premature and had suffered a lot
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A frequently raised justification for abortion’s legality by pro-choice advocates is the claim that abortion significantly reduces crime and homicide rates, saving lives and bettering our society as a whole. Spawned in large part by a paper written by Donohue and Levitt in The Quarterly Journal of Economics showing that legalized abortion contributed significantly to
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Many pro-choice advocates accuse pro-life advocates of using fringe cases to push an agenda. Often, they argue that pro-life advocates do not because we do not know that late term abortions happen only in cases of medical necessity or instances of fetal disability and incompatibility with life. The idea that abortions that happen at or
Do Pro-Choice Advocates Understand Late Term Abortions? Read More »
Something that doesn’t really tend to get a lot of attention from pro-life or pro-choice advocates is what happens to the body of the child following abortions or miscarriages. It’s easy enough to see why this would be. For both pro-life and pro-choice advocates, the most controversial part of the entire subject is no longer
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No atrocity was ever ended by ignoring and covering up its horrors.
Why Do People Show Pictures Of Abortions? Read More »
To call the unborn a child may make some people uncomfortable, and some may choose to take offense over this, but it is probably the best and most accurate term you can generally use. While many people think that the use of terms like ‘fetus’ or ‘embryo’ are more accurate than calling the unborn a
Is calling a fetus a child incorrect or disrespectful? Read More »
Many proponents of abortion, particularly in Chile, have campaigned on its legalization being necessary to protect the lives of women. The country’s lack of exception for threats to the mother’s life has often been held up as an example of barbaric policies taken too far. However, the question is, is there any evidence that this
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Even as the modern pro-life movement was being conceived within the halls of medicine, grown in the journals of science throughout the United States, a war broiled within our country that would take the lives of more American soldiers than any other before and since. The Civil War is remembered as one of the most
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A common criticism of pro-life advocates and legislation by pro-choice advocates is that they do not believe that restrictions on abortion will really have any effect on the number of abortions performed anyway. Now, certainly making abortion illegal will not stop all abortions. Laws are rarely if ever followed 100% of the time, and there
What effects do pro-life laws really have? Read More »
One of the primary issues in the debate over abortion, and perhaps the most important one, is whether the unborn child is a person. There are, of course, many other arguments made in defense of abortion. Some focus on bodily autonomy, health, poverty, crime, or other social concerns. But personhood is a bit more basic
Dehumanization: Can We Rationally Deny The Unborn Personhood? Read More »
In their defense of abortion, pro-choice advocates have made many promises and claims about it’s positive effects. Among these has been the assertion that abortion reduces child abuse. Now, other people here have already commented on how abortion is a form of lethal abuse, but even if we accept the premise that abortion does not
Does Abortion Reduce Child Abuse? Read More »
In discussing contentious issues, it is common for both sides to use analogies to illustrate points, showing how as a matter of consistency our behavior might change if we think about things in different ways. One common such analogy when it comes to abortion is the Violinist Analogy. In essence, it argues that if you
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