by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli As always, we welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life explains how a current legislative gap in MN could allow for human cloning at taxpayers’ expense.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The UK’s Department of Health has finally released late term abortion statistics: The Dept. of Health statistics, which go back almost a decade, were released after a 6-year legal battle. They reveal that between 2002 and 2010 there were 17,983 terminations on the grounds that there was a […]

Last week I reported Planned Parenthood was reduced to paying people to follow it on Twitter, at a cost of $10-70/per. Now Planned Parenthood is paying Twitter to promote its “tweets,” or 140-character messages. And according to the Wall Street Journal, those tweets cost $100,000 apiece, probably now a low figure since that article is […]

In study after study, researchers find that parents are consistently less happy than non-parents. No matter how you control the sample, if you have two identical people—one with a child and one without—the parent will be 5.6 percentage points less happy. ~Jonathan Last’s review of Bryan Caplan’s book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The country of Hungary is so desperate for children that they’re extending maternity leave to 3 years along with a variety of other measures including the possibility of giving parents more voting rights. Plans to ban abortion were scrapped. I wonder if William Saletan’s latest piece which discusses […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat In the Wall Street Journal, William McGurn asks “Are babies better than abortion?”: So again the question: As a society, does this figure say anything about the choice between a baby and abortion? Even for those who believe the choice for an abortion belongs to a woman alone […]

1/12, 12:34a: Pro-life Professor Michael New has a perspective on Guttmacher’s report worth reading at NRO: The reasons for this slight uptick are fairly straightforward. A number of peer-reviewed studies have found that the strength of the economy has an impact on abortion rates…. [V]ery few media outlets are taking a longer-term view and asking […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Dr. Drew Pinsky has indicated that MTV’s No Easy Decision abortion special made him uncomfortable: “The topic makes me uncomfortable,” Pinsky admitted Thursday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena. “But the paradigm there is I felt the conversation was worth having. You have to let […]