Pro-Life Dems Know the Party Needs Us
By Herb Geraghty The United States has some of the most extreme permissive laws related to abortion in the world. Since Roe v. Wade, 60 million unique, individual, human lives have been violently...
View ArticleThe Greatest Fear of the Abortion Lobby Isn’t Republicans — It’s Pro-Life...
Xavier Bisits National Director of Operations, DFLA “When it’s my turn, you have to promise to stand up and shout, ‘Good question!’” “Sure,” I laughed, responding to Kristen. It was January 27, and I...
View ArticleThe Hyde Amendment Is One of the Most Crucial Pro-Life Protections
Sophie Trist Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has stipulated that federal tax dollars cannot support abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or when the pregnant person’s life is in danger. This has...
View ArticleWhy I Am a Pro-Life Democrat
The Whole Life Democrat is proud to present a series of interviews with Pro-Life Democrats from all walks of life. Sophie Trist is totally blind from birth and a loud and proud Louisiana native. She...
View ArticleThe progressive case for the Hyde Amendment
By Terrisa Bukovinac and Xavier Bisits Since 1976 under President Jimmy Carter, all appropriations bills passed through Congress have come with a rider, the Hyde Amendment, which bans taxpayer funding...
View ArticleWe Asked, You Answered
We put out a question on Instagram: Why are you a pro-life Democrat? The answers centered around a few themes: trusting science, valuing communities that are marginalized, and a lot of faith. People...
View ArticleThe Hyde Amendment, Explained
By Craig Miller What is the Hyde Amendment? The Hyde Amendment (often referred to simply as Hyde) is a provision in every federal budget bill passed since 1976 that bans federal funds from being used...
View ArticleWhat Stanley Kubrick Got Right
By Craig Miller In 1968, author Arthur C. Clarke published a companion novel to Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In it, Clarke describes humanity’s first encounter with alien handiwork in...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Our Obsession with Superheroes
By Craig Miller This article is part of DFLA’s ongoing series looking at the problem of abortion through the lens of American pop culture. Superheroes are presented in pop culture as mighty people with...
View ArticleIn Defense of Texas’s Heartbeat Bill
By John Quinn On Wednesday, September 1st, the State of Texas made history as the first in the union to implement a fetal heartbeat bill. This legislation prohibits abortion violence after a fetal...
View ArticleSYMPOSIUM: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
PERSPECTIVES ON THE IMPENDING FATE OF ROE The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, expected to be issued in June 2022, could mean the end of Roe v. Wade. Or maybe...
View ArticleDFLA Tips for Whole Life Conversations over the Holidays
by Doug Stringer, DFLA Candidate Outreach Director While still emerging out of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are eagerly looking forward to a holiday season where they can more fully interact with...
View ArticleNew South Carolina Bill Seeks to Provide Reparations for the Wrongfully Executed
By Sophie Trist, DFLA Messaging Director On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United States. George Stinney was poor and...
View ArticleA Message to Pro-Choice Voters: Why Climate Change Is More Important Than...
By Bob Synk My message to pro-choice voters, if they will listen, is that climate change is more important than abortion. We are living at a critical time when our actions can significantly reduce the...
View ArticlePregnancy Resource Centers: REAL Support and REAL Choice for Women
By Jess Meeth, DFLA National Communications Director Imagine you are a woman who has just gotten pregnant. You are going through a range of mixed emotions. Understandably, you feel shock and panic. You...
View ArticleStatement on Senator Casey’s Vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act
On February 28th, the Senate voted down the Women’s Health Protection Act by a vote of 46 to48 mostly along party lines. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said of the bill, “This will be the first...
View ArticlePaid Family Leave Proposal
Written and shared by Center for Public Justice Summary The U.S. remains one of the world’s few industrialized nations without guaranteed paid family leave. Partisan approaches to enacting paid leave...
View ArticleEarth Day 2022: A Personal Reflection On Restorative Justice Through...
By Jess Meeth, DFLA National Communications Director Where an empty abandoned lot used to sit, now lies a beautiful and flourishing garden filled with trees, plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables....
View ArticleA Reflection of Juneteenth on the Fourth of July
By Rev. Harriet Bradley, DFLA’s Director of African-American Outreach and President of DFLA Georgia As an African-American, the very first time that I heard the word “Juneteenth” was the summer of 2014...
View ArticleA Letter to My Progressive Friends About Post-Roe Fears
Written by Vibha Sazawal (she/her/hers) Dear friends, When you think of a post-Roe world, are you filled with fear? Are you afraid that women’s rights will take a giant step backward? Are you afraid...
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