“Bella’s Gift” by Rick and Karen Santorum
As a father of children with special needs, I confess that I typically do not read books by parents with similar experiences. Such books often focus on the parents’ distress, and while they might help...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Life
For decades, the argument over abortion has been mired in manipulative rhetoric, political posturing and general confusion. But while the politics and emotions surrounding abortion are exceedingly...
View ArticleThe Case for Life: Size
The S in the SLED acronym stands for size. All of us began our lives as a tiny fertilized egg, or zygote, invisible to the naked eye. Over the years, the “smallness” of unborn babies has been cited to...
View ArticleThe Case for Life: Level of Development
The L in the SLED acronym stands for level of development. Many abortion advocates dismiss unborn children, particularly during the first trimester, as a mass of cells or a blob of tissue. This...
View Article“Ain’t I a Woman?” Sojourner Truth’s Life Repudiates Planned Parenthood’s Agenda
It’s Women’s History Month, yet another opportunity for abortion advocates to promote their cause by hijacking the legacy of God-fearing women. Planned Parenthood—whose use of the #blacklivesmatter...
View ArticleThe Case for Life: Environment
Environment, better understood as the location of the baby, is the E in SLED. When babies are born they move from their mother’s uterus to the outside world. But should the timing of this move...
View ArticleThe Case for Life: Degree of Dependency
Abortion supporters often claim that a baby’s inability to survive outside the mother’s womb should automatically justify abortion. The issue is that the child is still fully dependent on the mother,...
View ArticleWomens Mobile Clinics — Reaching Women in Crisis
Every day in Grapevine, Texas, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the two cities where OFL owns and operates a women’s care clinic, more and more abortion-determined women are reaching out to us for help....
View ArticleWill the Church Rise Up and Usher in Abortion’s Demise?
I was rereading some of my recent articles to you, and it struck me that I always seem to be writing to you from an airplane. Happily, today I’m sitting at my desk in the Online for Life office, which...
View ArticleAbortion is a difficult sermon topic for pastors…
There have been a lot of stories in the news lately about Planned Parenthood and the selling of fetal body tissue. People are upset that an organization, especially one that receives more than half a...
View ArticleOnline for Life Is Not Just Helping To Save Lives… We Are Helping To Save...
“Welcome to pre-kindergarten.” Kourtnee and thirty-four other children will hear those words for the first time this fall. But these aren’t your average almost five-year-olds. They are Online for Life...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood and Baby Parts: How Did We Get Here?
There is an old business maxim that says, “Every organization embodies the characteristics of its leader.” This is true for any organized group, whether it’s a family, church, nonprofit, business, or...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood and Baby Parts: How Did We Get Here? (Part 2)
In the first installment of my two-part blog series, I discussed Margaret Sanger’s radical past, specifically how she embraced eugenics to cleanse the world of “inferior” races. In this continuing...
View ArticleWhy is there no pro-life alternative to Planned Parenthood?
Planned Parenthood does not represent the entirety of the pro-abortion movement, but it is the face of it. When you include all of its affiliates’ budgets, Planned Parenthood is a $1+ billion operation...
View ArticleRemembering Moriah: How a little girl’s life should inspire America
This past Saturday morning I received news that no one wants to hear. Moriah, the 2-year-old granddaughter of a new friend of mine, passed away of natural causes. Moriah went to sleep on earth and woke...
View Article3,500 Babies Have Been Saved!
A Story Worth Telling The very first Online for Life baby was rescued from abortion on June 22, 2010. A young woman and her fiancé went online in search of abortion information, and OFL was able to...
View ArticleIs Thanksgiving a Pro-Life Holiday?
It’s easy to find the celebration of life in Christmas…a young, unwed pregnant girl…a newborn, divine baby…the wise men honoring this new life with lavish gifts. Easter spreads a pro-life message as we...
View ArticleChristmas and Humanity
It’s the Christmas season once again! Recently, Jessica and I were looking through some old photos from Decembers past, and the changes in our two boys are remarkable. Our oldest son, Caleb, is a...
View ArticleHuman: From the Inside Out
Thomas Jefferson said, “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” Fast forward over two centuries, and our country...
View ArticleA Beautiful Human
If you walk through an art museum, you’ll hear countless opinions on what people consider beautiful. A painting that one person believes is hideous may be considered another person’s masterpiece. I’ve...
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