Like many of you, I have become more and more frustrated by hearing statements from politicians about rape and abortion. The worst were the gaffes and wrongful responses made by “pro-life” legislators regarding so-called “exceptions” that would allow abortions for rape, threat to the life of the mother, and for special needs babies. Have they ever […]
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Feminists for Life President Serrin Foster responded to the misuse of FFL’s registered trademark, “Women Deserve Better®,” by abortion advocates who co-sponsored a rally on August 28 in support of abortion. Sponsors included Progress Iowa, Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa, AFSCME Iowa Council 61, Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, One Iowa. Featured speakers included Iowa
Jeannie Wallace French, executive director of the National Women’s Coalition for Life provided a powerful personal story during the 1996 hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. French described how physicians recommended aborting her twin daughter, Mary, after she was diagnosed with an occipital encephalocele, a form of spina bifida.
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Birthmothers and former Feminists for Life board members Jessica O’Connor-Petts and Julia Thornton were interviewed, along with FFL President Serrin M. Foster, by Cheryl Wetzstein in the Sunday, April 12, edition of theWashington Times. We thought you would be interested to read the following excerpts: [Y]oung women who choose adoption, like Julia Thornton and Jessica
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