Margaret Sanger’s fall from grace
Margaret Sanger is a feminist icon and founder of Planned Parenthood. Upon accepting Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, Hillary Clinton waxed eloquent on Ms. Sanger: “Now, I have to tell you that it was a great privilege when I was told that I would receive this award. I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage,…
Read MoreAnnouncing The HOLY FAMILY Project
Dear Iowans for LIFE Supporter: Iowans for LIFE is going big. And we need your help now to make it happen. I’d like to introduce you to one of the biggest projects we’ve ever taken on: THE HOLY FAMILY Project. We’re developing an entire pro-life series wrapped around the primacy of the family unit. As…
Read MoreThe Protect Life Amendment has a language problem
The Iowa House and Senate both support the Protect Life Amendment. But they don’t agree on the language of the Amendment. Let’s compare: Iowa Senate’s Language Sec. 26. Protection of life. To defend the dignity of all human life, and to protect mothers and unborn children from efforts to expand abortion even to the day…
Read MoreEaster epiphany
By Tom Quiner Happy Easter! My name is Tom Quiner, president of Iowans for LIFE’s board. I had an Easter epiphany: Easter is very pro-life. After all, what is the lesson of Easter? Simply put, Easter says that you matter, that your life has meaning. Easter says your life has so much meaning that God…
Read MoreThe Protect Life Amendment passes Iowa Senate!
Dear Fellow Pro-Lifer: The Senate just passed the Protect Life Amendment by a 30 to 17 vote! Way to go, pro-life legislators! The Iowa House already passed a similar Amendment, which means both Houses will need to negotiate the final language of the bill. This is the first, critical step to returning the Iowa Constitution…
Read MoreThe Lesson of Easter
By TOM QUINER I am savoring this glorious Easter season. My feelings toward Christ are simple: “Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.” The Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen brilliantly states the lesson of Easter this way: “The lesson that emerges from Easter is that the world was wrong and Christ was right; that there is a world of difference…
Read MorePsalm 31: Good Friday’s prayer for broken souls at a crisis point
By TOM QUINER Have you ever wondered what your last words will be? Leonardo da Vinci’s focused on what he didn’t get done: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” Actor Humphrey Bogart was flip: “I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.” Atheist…
Read MorePsalm 116: Holy Thursday’s prayer for God’s servants
By TOM QUINER How can you make a return to the Lord? Is there anyway you can actually ‘payback’ the Lord for all the good he has done for you? Think about it: everything you have is a gift from God: your family, your friends, shelter, food … everything. What can you possibly do to…
Read MoreWill Pelosi steal a pro-life House seat elected by Iowa voters?
Marianette Miller-Meeks apparently won a squeaker of an election to the House of Representatives in Iowa’s 2nd district last November. The vote was close and recounted, with the pro-life Miller-Meeks coming out 6 votes ahead of abortion rights proponent, Rita Hart. A bipartisan panel unanimously certified the outcome, and Miller-Meeks was seated in the House…
Read MoreWhat would you say?
It starts young. Our pro-life kids start getting hammered on the abortion issue at younger and younger ages. By the time they get to college, Big Abortion has created a highly trained cadre of abortion rights evangelists ready to pounce on your pro-life child and rhetorically beat them into submission if they dare to defy…
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