True or False: birth control reduces human abortion?
By Maggie DeWitte True or False: birth control reduces human abortion? Planned Parenthood’s Erin Davison-Rippey asserts that “limiting birth-control access increases abortion” (Des Moines Register, August 4th). The Guttmacher Institute disagrees Planned Parenthoods’ associates at the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute disagree. Their website acknowledges that “in 2014, 51% of abortion patients were using a contraceptive method…
Read MoreIdeas that changed the world
Ideas change the world for better or worse. Three 20th century women with clashing creeds unleashed their ideas on the world for better … or for worse. Margaret Sanger, Ayn Rand, and St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta each affected the world in profound ways. Wouldn’t it be something if you could get them into a…
Read MoreThe complicated legacy of Margaret Sanger
The American landscape is littered with fallen statues of notable historical figures tainted with the stench of racism. A notable statue still stands at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., that of Margaret Sanger. An influential American Time Magazine named her one of the twenty most influential Americans in history. The Smithsonian…
Read MoreRead our letter to the President of the United States
By Maggie DeWitte Iowans for LIFE, in conjunction with the Iowa Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders, mailed the following letter to President Trump: *** July 16th, 2020 The President of the United States THE WHITE HOUSE 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: The Iowa Coalition of Pro-Life leaders needs your immediate assistance.…
Read MoreMail order abortion pills come to Iowa
The drumbeat to deregulate the abortion pill, RU-486, ticked up during the Obama administration. In 2016, the Food and Drug administration granted Gynuity Health Projects permission to initiate a study to advance abortion services using mail order abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol). Iowans for LIFE is quick to note the disconnect between Gynuity Health Projects’…
Read MoreThe quest for a more perfect union
Iowans for LIFE honors the legacy of the 4th of July. Two-hundred and forty-four years may have passed since the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, but the issues at stake remain relevant and contested. The pro-life movement embraces Thomas Jefferson’s soaring rhetoric with relish, for a single sentence provides the moral underpinnings to the…
Read MoreJudge grants 24 Hour Bill injunction
As expected, Mitchell E. Turner, District Court Judge for the Sixth Judicial District in Iowa, granted an injunction to the 24 Hour Bill which was scheduled to go into force today. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit to block the bill before Governor Reynolds even had a chance to sign it into law.…
Read MorePlanned Parenthood files lawsuit to block 24 hour waiting period
Women and men often regret the decision to abort their baby. That’s why Iowa lawmakers passed a bill which requires a 24 hour waiting period before getting an abortion. As expected, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to block the legislation and seeks a temporary injunction to delay it from going into effect on July 1st.…
Read MoreMy people are being used
By Lois Brookhart The article by Sister Anne Marie Walsh, SOLT, is a powerful, thoroughly written message supported with excellent facts. I have been trying to share it with everyone I know, friends and family alike. I am sick at heart at what I see happening in my country. Even though I believe it is…
Read MoreYou are being played
By Sister Anne Marie Walsh I feel compelled to say something after seeing, in recent days, some of the things that have been posted about pro-life, racism, the death penalty, etc. Please don’t quote Pope Francis to me, or any other prelate for that matter. I know exactly what they have said, and though much…
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