‘I am pregnant’: the journey of choosing to let go
March 17, 2016
First, there’s a panic. Is this real? What does this mean for me? After the initial shock wears off and the decision has been made, one of the first places that came to mind to call was Planned Parenthood. I did a quick Google search and a phone number was returned to me which I used in short ...
Students For Life club brings insight to pro-life
November 17, 2014
Life is a sacred concept. One minute you are here and the next you are gone. Yet there are those who do not get to live life past the womb. More often than not those who are not ready for parenthood do what they think is best and get an abortion. The CSUN Students For Life Club urges students and the commu...
If signed into law, new abortion bills will allow non-physicians to perform abortions by medication or aspiration techniques
September 15, 2013
Saturday afternoon, Heather Mechanic clutched her “8th Week of Life” abortion poster at the Odd Fellows Cemetery to remember the lives of more than 16,000 unborn children that were buried there. Mechanic and her husband traveled from San Diego to Los Angeles to participate in the National Day...
POLITICS PRO/CON: Is the GOP a women’s party?
August 31, 2012
The following two stories revolve around the GOP's stance on abortion and women's health, a conversation sparked by Republican Congressman Todd Akin's controversial remarks: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe th...
Angelenos protest abortion act
February 27, 2011
Pro-choice supporters gathered Saturday for the Los Angeles Walk for Choice in downtown LA to advocate for women’s reproductive rights responding to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3), as well as recent federal funding cuts to Planned Parenthood. H.R. 3 was introduced in...
Common Sense: Whose Choice?
April 12, 2010
Harrison Leonard Contributing columnist Until 1996 when she left to begin a ministry of her own, Norma McCorvey was an affiliate of Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization “dedicated to ending abortion in America.” McCorvey attracted all manner of media attention when her membership with ...