Archive: January 2012

I remember vividly the last meeting I had with Kortney Blythe Gordon before she and Jon were killed in that horrific October accident.

Kortney and I were the unofficial March for Life working group at Students for Life of America, being as we both had over a decade of MFL organizing and outreach between the two of us.  Our meeting was to plot and plan for that big day, and we were relishing the tasks at hand.

While the majority of doctors and organizations assure us that abortion is a safe and casual procedure with no negative consequences, there seem to be real, and more than rare risks for the woman who has an abortion. While there may not be an established causative relationship, there is a definite correlation between abortion and negative health outcomes for women, and it is unlikely to be the case that the association is all but causal. The results of the four largest, record-based studies in the world have shown abortion to be associated with increased risk for mental health problems of various forms.

TUCSON, Arizona, January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Arizona college student who stopped in at her workplace wearing a pro-life t-shirt quit her job rather than obey a supervisor who ordered her to turn the “Pray to End Abortion” shirt inside out.

Renise Rodriguez, a 21-year-old religious studies major at the University of Arizona, worked as a Girl Experience Associate for the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona in Tucson. When she went to her office on Jan. 3 during her off-duty hours to prepare materials for a meeting, she was told twice by a supervisor that if she planned to stay in the office, or attend a troop meeting, she would have to turn her shirt inside out.