“As an abortion survivor, I know firsthand the challenges of speaking about my experience. [A recent, flawed] study followed its participants for five years following their abortions. For the first five years after my abortion, I could count on one hand the people in whom I had confided about it." —Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life
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What a flawed study ignores about abortion regrets
(Washington Examiner) Why are women so hesitant to reflect on their abortion experience? The answer is clear. Many women regret their choice to have an abortion. So many women reflect on birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and the life, the child, they could have known. It is a particularly empty, lonely kind of grief. Many women wish they'd had the information or the options to have made a different choice. Many women wish they could change the past, and since they can’t, they have no appetite to look back or participate in studies about the decision that may cause them such grave, lifelong pain.
Mary Forr, Katie Glenn, and Michael New on the District of Columbia City Council and human rights
(Life, Liberty, and Law) Washington, DC's City Council continues to embrace the fiction that human rights can ever include the violence of abortion. Mary Forr, Catholic Policy and Advocacy Manager for the Archdiocese of Washington, joins Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life, and Michael New, Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute for a conversation with Tom Shakely on why the District of Columbia City Council acts as if it were an official Planned Parenthood affiliate.
Planned Parenthood launches 2020 initiative with endorsements, 5-figure ad buy
(Fox News) Catherine Glenn Foster, the president and CEO of Americans United for Life, told Fox News she hoped Planned Parenthood would fail. Her organization fights for state-level restrictions that would regulate activities by clinics like Planned Parenthood. "Planned Parenthood is America's deadliest nonprofit," she said. "We can only hope that the $45 million that Planned Parenthood is pumping into this election cycle will produce the same results that their political engagement did four years ago, and return the most pro-life administration in American history to office alongside a pro-life Congress.”
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Massachusetts judge rejects right to physician-assisted suicide
(Crux) Americans United for Life, based in Washington, joined the advocates in applauding the ruling Jan. 14. “Every person, and especially the most vulnerable, deserves to be told the truth - that there is no healing or curative reason for medical suicide, and that there is always hope so long as there is life,” Tom Shakely, AUL’s chief engagement officer, said in a statement.
At least 1,000 anti-abortion marchers rally in the Loop
(Chicago Tribune) At least 1,000 anti-abortion marchers shut down Loop thoroughfares Saturday afternoon, rallying from the Daley Center to the Congress Plaza Hotel in the annual March For Life Chicago, chanting and carrying signs such as “Abortion isn’t health care."
Abortion and the ownership of other human beings
(Washington Examiner) Abortion absolutists contend that mothers own the lives of their children, from the moment they are conceived until the moment they are born, and perhaps beyond. Would Tubman exclaim in exasperation at this law, “God don’t mean people to own people?” She would be right to do so. Mothers do not own the lives of their children, and neither do fathers. We do not even truly own ourselves. Life is a gift. It must be welcomed, nourished, respected, and protected within our communities and throughout our laws from the moment of its coming to be in conception until its natural fading away in death.
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