I have written before about my journey to become a no exceptions prolifer. I have never shared this story publicly, but I think the time is right. In 2011, I worked very hard to make sure that our “ultrasound law” was passed in Texas. It was a good bill and I was...
By Dr. Douglas Young, University of North Georgia-Gainesville political science professor The defining feature of a free society is every individual enjoying the freedom to make choices, good and bad, within the law. Enjoying the liberty to make your own choices is...
Today is the last day of a landmark conference in Washington, D.C. The International Summit on Human Gene Editing . Formerly referred to as “germline intervention”, Human Gene Editing (HGE) is the creation of a genetically modified human. HGE changes made to a...
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” This axiom, usually attributed to Voltaire, warns against sacrificing a very good thing in pursuit of something better – or perfect – that may never be attained. It often proves good advice. When applied to the pro-life...
Yes, some candidates and organizations are more pro-life than others. Some don’t value pre-born children based on how they were conceived. This is not a political game for me. I literally owe my birth to the MI law which protected me-- legislators who recognized that...
The Journal of Medical Ethics published on March 17, 2016 a survey compiled from 490 out of 3000 practicing neonatologists. The survey showed 76% of the neonatologists thought it was ethically permissible to issue a ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’, (DNAR), without asking or notifying the parents for an infant when they “felt it impossible” for the child to survive.
Tiny billboards all across Georgia proclaim “Choose Life.” Yes, tiny. And no, they are not up in the treetops along the Interstates or wedged between downtown buildings. They are on the bumpers of almost 4000 cars. They are Choose Life license plates. Since 2007...
The Girl Scouts…My initial thoughts are of my own few years in the Scouts as a young girl. Selling cookies, earning badges, going to campouts, reading Bible stories around a camp fire, spending precious time with my mother who worked 3 jobs and yet still had time for...