National Right to Life Committee
These adoptees refuse to be Christian pro-life poster kids
By Kathryn Post — July 25, 2022
(RNS) — They're challenging the often-religious argument that adoption is a simple, sacred and mutually beneficial solution to abortion.
Anti-abortion movement faces internal divisions after Roe’s fall
By Bob Smietana — June 29, 2022
(RNS) — After the Dobbs decision, abortion foes hope to ban abortion where they can and find ‘creative approaches’ like shareholder activism to punish abortion rights supporters.
For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
By Yonat Shimron and Jack Jenkins — June 24, 2022
(RNS) — A mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly.
As Roe’s potential fall nears, abortion abolitionists turn on ‘pro-life elites’
By Bob Smietana — May 19, 2022
(RNS) — Abortion abolitionists, including a leading candidate for SBC president, want an end to abortion, with no exceptions, and say women who have illegal abortions should face murder charges.
Abortion rate hits lowest level since 1973
By Sharon Jayson — February 3, 2014
(RNS) Researcher say the decline in both the abortion rate and the number of abortions was likely to do with the recession and increased use of contraception.
40 years after Roe, abortion remains legal — but restricted
By Richard Wolf — January 23, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Forty years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion, the constitutional right many Americans take for granted is coming under increased scrutiny.
The roots of Rep. Todd Akin’s rape remarks
By Tracy Gordon — August 22, 2012
ST. LOUIS (RNS) Two pages from a 1972 article have influenced two generations of anti-abortion activists hoping to build a medical case to ban all abortions without exception. By Tim Townsend and Blythe Bernhard.
Is Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng pro-life?
By David Gibson — May 30, 2012
(RNS) During the dramatic diplomatic negotiations over blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, anti-abortion groups in the U.S. hailed Chen as one of their own. But Chen is now in the U.S., and he may not be as ``pro-life'' as some of his American supporters assumed. By David Gibson.
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