What comes to mind when you hear the words IVF and surrogacy? For many, these terms bring to mind images of couples who have longed for children and turned to assisted reproductive technology (ART) for assistance. These technologies tend to be presented as compassionate solutions, in order to fulfill a desire that is profoundly human.
Dr. Jerome Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist who discovered the cause of Down syndrome. To the secular world, he is known as the father of modern genetics. However, to say just that does not begin to describe this giant of a man among men!
IVF survivor Maddie Broome shares her perspective on the ethics behind in vitro fertilization. I was conceived in a petri dish and survived. On a good day, 30-50% of embryos make it to the implantation stage, also known as the blastocyst stage.[i] Of those embryos that are implanted, 45% flourish into a pregnancy, resulting in a live birth.[ii]Optimistically, a successfully fertilized egg (embryo) has roughly a 13.5-22.5% chance of being born.If I had been just outside that slim percentile,...
During the birth of my fourth child, in the words of my doctor, my uterus “exploded.” After skillfully stitching me back together, my doctor suggested that I should not have any more children. But God had a different plan. Two years later, another healthy baby girl was born.
While National Grandparents Day, the Sunday following Labor Day, was founded by Jacob Reingold and Marian McQuade in 1973, the holiday has escaped the grasp of most people—so let’s talk about it! The purpose of the day is for older adults to share wisdom, varying perspectives, and values with young people—starting with their grandchildren—on this day and beyond. In our current culture, just as the Personhood of the preborn is being denied, the God-given life of our elderly population is being...
We live in an era where misinformation and lies are rampant. There’s no better example than how abortion advocates incorrectly slander Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs). They vilify them, claiming they’re “fake clinics” that are “unethical.”
NORCROSS, GA, October 22, 2015—Ricardo Davis, a longtime pro-life advocate, has been elected the new president of Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) effective November 10, 2015. Davis, owner of a healthcare information systems consulting firm, replaces Dan Becker. Becker will devote his focus to Personhood Alliance, which GRTL founded in 2014. Personhood Alliance is a Christ-centered organization created to bring the pro-life movement back to its original mission—acknowledging that everyone is...
The local church and its pastors are two vital assets that are often overlooked but are critically important to the pro-life cause. If our churches and church leadership are unwilling or not equipped to take a stand in the fight for life, we will not win the culture.
For the last several weeks, the talk of the pro-life community has been the infamous Planned Parenthood undercover videos revealing their barbaric practices of illegally selling baby body parts after abortion Some videos have even shown that Planned Parenthood is possibly birthing babies alive in order to obtain beating hearts and lungs. This shocking revelation behind the scenes of America’s largest abortion provider has left many asking the same question: What can I do to get involved and...