Unsatisfying pro-life positions
Two pro-life candidates for president offered up some unsatisfying pro-life positions in the past week. Former President Donald Trump forcefully attacked Heartbeat Bill legislation passed in Florida and signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis. Similar legislation has passed in Iowa (twice). Said Trump: “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a…
Read MoreMark your calendar for Life Chain 2023: October 1st
Life Chain 2023 takes place on Sunday, October 1st from 2PM to 3:30PM. For the second year in a row, the event takes place at 35th & University Avenue in Des Moines. But you’ll pick up your signs at: Des Moines Fellowship Church • 950 35th Street • Des Moines, IA (just south of Kingman…
Read MoreWhy the economy matters to the pro-life movement
Why do women have abortions? According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute: money. Let’s face it, the economy and abortion are connected. According to their 2004 study: “The reasons most frequently cited were that having a child would interfere with a woman’s education, work or ability to care for dependents (74%); that she could not afford…
Read MoreDeSantis struck a chord
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis clearly struck a chord in last week’s Republican debate when he referenced an abortion survivor he knew. The Governor said: “I know a lady in Florida named Penny. She survived multiple abortion attempts. She was left discarded in a pan. Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different…
Read MoreWhat candidates said about abortion at the first Republican debate
Fox News hosted the first Republican debate last night, moderated by Bret Baier and Martha McCallum. Baier asked Ron DeSantis his views on the abortion issue. Here is how the Florida governor responded (above): Ron DeSantis: “ … we sold the biggest election landslide victory in the history of the Republican Party in the state…
Read MoreThanks to all of our volunteers
Pulse Life Advocates exhibits at the Iowa State Fair as a critical strategy in our pro-life educational outreach. We touch tens of thousands of people every year with life-affirming messages that matter. We couldn’t do it without a committed team of volunteers. We share our pro-life booth with our friends at Iowa Right to Life.…
Read MoreThe votes have been tallied!
The 2023 Iowa State Fair has come to a steamy close. Our annual corn poll yielded some interesting results. Before we share them, many thanks to all the volunteers who helped Pulse Life Advocates man our booth and fulfill our mission … … to inform, educate, and inspire a new generation to value the sanctity…
Read MoreFifth Circuit Court nixes mail-order abortion pills
Some good pro-life news: The Fifth Circuit Court said yesterday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) erred when it allowed mail order abortion pills in 2016 and 2021. Let’s take a closer look. Is this a big deal? This is a “significant victory” exclaimed Erin Hawley, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom…
Read MoreAnti-Catholic bigotry is epidemic
America has worked hard to promote pluralism. We’ve been wildly successful. Yes, there have been setbacks. But our motto of e pluribus unum, “out of many, one,” has worked because our nation enshrined in our Constitution as its most important rights the freedoms of religion and speech. The re-emergence of anti-Catholic bigotry in the past…
Read MoreGlobal ‘boiling’ is bad for the planet’s sanity
For those not old enough to remember these things, climate scientists warned we were heading into another ice age back in 1971. Seriously. (See the video below from 1979.) By the 1990s, the story had changed: we faced an existential threat of global warming. When the data didn’t cooperate, the new threat was ‘climate change.’…
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