Last Sunday, my wife Kris and I joined with others on the steps of the North Dakota Capitol in -14 degree wind chill weather to stand with other pro-life North Dakotans and declare that every human life is precious and deserves protection. Today (Friday, Jan. 22), in spite of blizzard warnings, thousands from across the country are…
Paul Stark: Opposing Abortion Doesn't Need To Be About Abortion
In a Star Tribune opinion piece, local writer Bonnie Blodgett attributes the pro-life view to “only religious zealots.” Other pro-choice advocates routinely dismiss the pro-life position on the grounds that it is a mere religious belief and therefore may not be “imposed” on our pluralistic society. No appeal to religion This claim is mistaken in…
Fargo Schools Decide To Allow Student Pro-Life Groups
After much ballyhoo and rigamarole two Fargo public schools have grudgingly decided to allow students to form pro-life groups. Below is a press release sent out by the Thomas More Society. This is a victory, I think. Whatever your position on abortion, there’s nothing wrong with recognizing the right of students to organize groups advocating…
Audio: Pro-Life Advocates Describe Their Beef With Fargo Public Schools
Yesterday news broke indicating that students and a pro-life group they belong to were seeking possible litigation against Fargo Public Schools for disallowing the creation of pro-life groups in two of the district’s schools. Today while guest hosting for Mike Kapel on WDAY AM970 in Fargo I had on Jocelyn Floyd from the Thomas Moore…
James Kerian: North Dakota Will Continue To Lead The Pro-Life Movement
There’s an old Monty Python skit in which King Arthur duels against a Dark Knight who will not allow him to cross a foot bridge. When Arthur has chopped off both of the knight’s arms he declares victory and turns his back on his adversary only to be kicked by the now armless knight who…
From The Left: Pro-Life Supporters Play Both The Sides Of First Amendment
Back in 2010, the anti-abortion group the Susan B. Anthony List attempted to purchase advertising to claim that pro-life Rep. Steven Driehaus (D-OH) had supported “taxpayer-funded abortion” because he voted for the Affordable Care Act. The Susan B. Anthony list did this despite the fact that according to the non-partisan and Pulitzer Prize winning Poltifact, the…
Question of the Week: Will Dalrymple Actually Take a Position on the Abortion Bills?
This past week in the legislature was not short of drama in the least, with the topic of abortion taking center stage both in the Capitol as well as on national news. Three Senate-sponsored pieces of pro-life legislation got through the people’s chamber, joining two House Bills passed by the Senate earlier in the second…
UPDATED: ND Senate Passes Pro Life Bills
This post is updated with the votes of each Senator on each bill. What also remains to be resolved is the impact of Sen Mathern’s amendment on SB 2303 ensuring medical coverage for mother and child. This amendment was obviously not offered by Mathern out of sincere concern for the mother and child, but rather…
ND Senate Set to Decide on 4 Key Abortion Bills
The stage was set today for what will most likely be some very interesting debate tomorrow on four Senate Bills regarding abortion in North Dakota. Consideration of amendments were heard for the following bills: SB 2305, which if passed will require any doctor performing an abortion in the state to be licensed in North Dakota,…
Guest Post: Supporting HB1456
We celebrate our birthday’s as the time we left our mother’s womb at 9 months of age. But in fact, our lives began a little bit earlier. When you were conceived, your DNA already determined if you would be male or female, what color your hair will be, along with the color of your eyes.…