John Grant’s botched execution shows how cruel the death penalty can be. — On October 28th, John Grant, 60, was executed in Oklahoma. Witnesses say the execution was botched, and that Grant suffered convulsions and vomiting before he died. Eyewitness to the Oklahoma Execution Reporter Dan Snyder, who witnessed Grant’s death, described his final moments in a piece written for KOKH Fox 25 out of Oklahoma City.

Texas report shows that 80% of the people who died from COVID in jail had not been convicted of a crime. — COVID and Corrections: A Profile of COVID Deaths in Custody in Texas” is a report released by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. This report documents deaths by COVID in state-run prisons and jails in Texas. It breaks down the demographics of the…

She told the clinic she was pregnant, and they sent her the abortion pill - but the goal was to cause an unwanted abortion on another woman. — A British woman who lied about being pregnant to obtain the abortion pill with the intention of aborting her lover’s pregnant live-in girlfriend’s child will not face jail time, according to an article in the Derby Telegraph. Georgia Day called the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a chain of abortion facilities…

Roe v Wade is gone. It was based on faulty science from pre-medieval times. — In Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, Justice Harry Blackmun came to the conclusion that there was no scientific consensus as to when life begins. Blackmun wrote in Roe vs. Wade: We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in…

“Why Wouldn’t They Let Me See My Baby?” — In a book that collected the stories of women who had abortions, several women wrote about being deceived by abortion “counselors.” Refusing to show the ultrasound Amanda asked to see her baby on the ultrasound. The worker responded, “there isn’t anything to see. It’s the size of a grain of rice.” Believing her, Amanda went…

The back alley didn’t really end with Roe. — The pro-choice movement argued that legalizing abortion would make abortion safe, and end unsafe, unsanitary back-alley abortions. But there have been many abortion clinics, over the years, that have provided “care” that was every bit as bad as the worst back-alley abortion mill. And they have operated legally, with little…

They told her, “This baby’s not going to live,” but they never bothered to confirm the diagnosis. — In a Daily Mail article, UK resident Hetty Blakey describes being misled by doctors about her child’s condition and pressured to abort. Told to abort without a proper diagnosis Blakey went to Lincoln County Hospital and had a nuchal translucency screening. Web MD describes this test: The screening involves two steps. A blood test checks for levels…

Maybe because men have been excluded from abortion decisions for decades? — Pro-choice activists have begun to lament that men are not getting involved in their movement. This comes after decades of abortion advocates discussing abortion as a “women’s issue,” a decision in which men play no part. A writer at Jezebel complains men aren’t doing enough to promote abortion In an article for Jezebel, pro-choice activist Charlotte Shane wrote:

A pro-choice researcher manages to come to a conclusion in conflict with the evidence she presents. — A 2022 pro-choice book contains a study on post-abortive women by Meredith Navarro-McCullar, an abortion doula who “helps” women by providing transportation to abortion facilities, overnight housing, and childcare. There is no pro-life bias in this book, and therefore, this makes her admissions particularly striking.