University Life Advocates is a campus pro-life student group which is dedicated to preserving the life ethic by opposing abortion, euthanasia, and infanticde. These practices degrade not only the victims but also those who participate in them; one does not exercise one's rights by denying basic human rights to others. By organizing and opposing activities that destroy innocent human life, we hope to promote a stronger sense of respect for it.

November 30, 2005
Erin recently debated about abortion with another student at a freshman class on campus.  Jordan assisted her, and the debate went very well.  The opposing debater was forced to make disingenuous statements to avoid admitting a serious flaw in her pro-abortion position.

We just had our last meeting of the semester last night, and we have lots of stuff going on in January, including our Roe v. Wade rally, display, and possibly a student abortion debate against Voices for Choice.  Good luck on finals, and we will see you early next year!

• Here is a pamphlet entitled "A Woman's Right to Know," published by the Texas Department of Health. The Woman's Right to Know Act requires all doctors in the state make this available to women considering abortion.

• This is a lovely bit about a man named Ron Fitzsimmons, director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. He once claimed that partial-birth abortions were only performed when the mother's life was in danger or the fetus was dangerously malformed or dysfuncional. He now says he lied, and that such "procedures" are performed routinely on healthy babies and healthy mothers. (link)

• People in the pro-abortion camp will often be heard claiming that partial-birth abortion is a made up term, politically motivated, vague, and will not be found in medical dictionaries. Here are two online medical dictionaries, both of which have definitions of "partial-birth abortion" and neither of which have a definition of "dilation and extraction" or "dilation and evacuation":
  
  
  • MedlinePlus
    
  • InteliHealth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  
  
  

• Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973 (html)
  The infamous decision which first prohibited states from restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the court.
  
  

  • Rehnquist dissenting (html)
  • Stewart concurring (html)

• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, July 3, 1989 (html)
  A decision reversing a District Court which had struck down a Missouri Law prohibiting abortion beyond the 20th week of pregnancy, among other restrictions. Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the court, joined by White, O'Connor, Scalia, and Kennedy.
  
  

  • Blackmun concurring in part, dissenting in part, joined by Brennan and Marshall (html)
  • Scalia concurring in part (html)

• Planned Parenthood v. Casey, June 29, 1992 (html)
  The Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, reaffirmed a woman's liberty to have an abortion as it had in the Roe v. Wade decision. The Court, however, upheld most of the state of Pennsylvania's abortion control law provisions reasoning that these provisions do not create an "undue burden" or "substantial obstacle" for women seeking an abortion. Under this new "undue burden" test (whatever that means), the only provision to fail was the husband notification requirement. Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter delivered the opinion of the court.
  
  

  • Stevens concurring in part, dissenting in part (html)
  • Blackmun concurring in part, dissenting in part (html)
  • Rehnquist concurring in part, dissenting in part, joined by Scalia, Thomas, and White (html)
  • Scalia concurring in part, dissenting in part, joined by Rehnquist, Thomas, and White (html)

• Stenberg v. Carhart, June 28, 2000 (pdf)
  The court invalidated a Nebraska state law which proscribed partial-birth abortion as a felony. The court cited the lack of an exception for the "health" of the mother as the primary cause for invalidation, and rested this opinion upon the previous decsion of Casey. Justice Breyer delivered the opinion of the court.
  
  

  • Rehnquist dissenting (pdf)
  • Scalia dissenting (pdf)
  • Kennedy dissenting (pdf)
  • Thomas dissenting (pdf)
  • O'Connor concurring (pdf)
  • Ginsburg concurring (pdf)
  • Stevens concurring (pdf)

• American Center for Law and Justice
• American Collegiates for Life
• Americans United for Life
• Birthright International
• Concerned Women for America
• Democrats for Life
• Feminists for Life
• Human Life International
• Life Decisions International
• Life Issues Institute
• National Right to Life Committee
• Pharmacists for Life International
• Presbyterians Pro-Life
• Pro-Life Action League
• Republican National Coalition for Life
• Rock for Life
• Vida Humana Internacional (en espanol)