On July 1st 1970 New York legalized abortion on demand becoming one of the first states in the U.S. to do so. This occurred two and a half years before the Supreme Court’s 1973 abortion ruling, Roe v Wade. The intervening two years saw New York devolve into an abortion tourism destination. Women came from
On June 5th U.S. District Court Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled on the lawsuit CompassCare v Cuomo. The lawsuit challenges a new labor law forcing Christian organizations including churches to employ people who do not align with the organization’s beliefs and mission. Attorneys representing CompassCare say, “The government cannot tell a religious organization or group, like
When National Public Radio cut out a black pro-lifer from a show about his own anti-abortion media campaign, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation told the story to the National Review. His claim is that there is a general media narrative that portrays the pro-life movement as comprised of only conservative, white males ignoring the
By law Federal tax dollars are not supposed to fund abortion. Fifty years ago, grant monies for family planning were made available through Title X and paid out through Health and Human Services with the understanding that abortion is not family planning. Yet, many have been frustrated by the fact that the world’s largest abortion
Recent reports reveal 115 COVID-19 vaccines under development. So far, sixteen of the COVID-19 vaccines are in clinical trials. Methods of vaccine production are varied and highly complex. However, development of a common type of vaccine requires two basic elements: 1) a genetically modified version of the virus that does not replicate itself and 2)
On May 2 hundreds of churches and thousands of people raised nearly a half million dollars to reduce abortion in Western New York through CompassCare’s Virtual Walk for Life. CompassCare is at the center of Rochester’s dramatic 50% abortion reduction. Last year the organization augmented its reach to include Buffalo. CompassCare’s President, Jim Harden,
Recently a European study of all first-time mothers between 1996 and 2013 found a link between abortion and poor outcomes for subsequent pregnancies. This comes just days ahead of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s gaff that abortion is safer than childbirth. The study reveals a 2.3-fold and 1.6 fold increase risk of extremely preterm birth
Should everyone be pro-life? Human equality is rooted in human dignity. Human dignity comes from the Christian belief that humans are made in the image of God as the Bible says in Genesis 1:27, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
Christians believe abortion is wrong because all people are made in the image of God each being equally valuable without qualification. Each person is fully human at all stages of maturity, from the womb to the tomb. To narrow the definition of who qualifies as human is to permit the law to play favorites, creating
Do you long for a more pro-life, pro-family community? For that future to become a reality, Christians must stop talking about abortion as if it is merely an issue or unfortunate social ill. The Church must begin to see abortion as a symptom of society’s fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be human. Because
