“In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God…” (Genesis 5:1). Abortion exists because society has rejected the only basis for human equality: Man is made in the image of God. Reject that and systemic injustice like abortion is born. In America, truth is no longer rooted in
CompassCare’s annual Walk for Life is happening in Rochester on May 5th. The largest pro-life event of its kind in New York, with scores of churches and thousands of sponsors and walkers, raises both the awareness and funds required for CompassCare to erase the need for abortion one woman at a time. The Walk
The U.S. Supreme Court has a checkered past. Here are three horrific mistakes that have been corrected and a fourth which yet cries out: 1823 SCOTUS denied Native Americans the right to own property in order to acquire free land. 1857 SCOTUS decreed black slaves had no rights at all so others could have
The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution states in part, “…[no] State may deprive any person of life…without due process of law; nor deny to any person…the equal protection of the laws.” Abortion became legal in 1973 because the Supreme Court determined that the word “person” in the Fourteenth Amendment does not include the
What does abortion expansion have to do with the New York State budget? Many legislators are asking that question. Governor Cuomo knows that a stand-alone abortion expansion bill is very unpopular in a State with the most permissive abortion laws in the world next to North Korea. So in 2013, Governor Cuomo attempted abortion
Can a government force dissenting people to carry the water of its new moral agenda? California is trying. They passed a law requiring all pro-life clinics to tell patients where they can get an abortion. 130 pregnancy clinics insist the mandate violates the healing purpose of medicine, that all humans, including the preborn ones,
Trump’s election is causing many liberal States to enact new pro-abortion legislation. Their fear is the Trump administration will gut a woman’s right to abortion. The extreme zeal of some State governments to protect abortion is so fundamentalist that many in power are willing to force people of contrary religious views to participate in
Last September New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, insisted current state law leaves the abortion door open through all nine months of pregnancy. Yet now he is promoting radical abortion expansion legislation which he contends merely codifies Federal law. This raises three questions: Since the Supreme Court rulings of 1973 conceded a state’s right
Camille came into CompassCare really hoping for a compassionate and nonjudgmental environment. She told her nurse she is married with three children but is seriously considering abortion because her husband is pressuring her to abort for “financial reasons.” Camille expressed regret when recounting that she had aborted two other times. She recalled that the last
What does victory in the battle to erase the need for abortion look like? Certainly, a woman considering abortion deciding to have her baby is a victory, a unique moment of rejoicing. Yet our joy over each life saved points to our future hope where no woman ever feels like abortion is a valid option….
