Life Defenders

Written by Life Defenders in collaboration with other pro-life activists  We’ve been reflecting on the defence of Planned Parenthood a lot lately & it occurred to us just how much it can be likened to a cult mentality. Coming to the realization of this dangerous correlation was so disturbing that we felt it needed to be written about. Here’s how it relates :  1: Planned Parenthood attacks the family by pitting mothers against their unborn children and calling it health care . 2:  People are looking for something to belong to, a place where they fit in. Planned Parenthood gives people a feeling of solidarity and like they are part of a tribe. When you attack PP, people take it personally as if  you are attacking them, even though you're not.  3: Planned Parenthood tells women that they can’t get by without them because there is no one else willing or capable of taking care of them. Those who buy into that lie blindly defend these “clini...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the sequel to the, according to Wesley Morris of the New York Times, ‘wackadoo film’ of Broadway origin. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again released this weekend and is currently #2 in box office revenue, just under Equalizer 2 . Its predecessor was the highest-grossing musical of its time, earning a total of $615 million in box office revenue, and the Broadway play ran for 16 years to acclaim and many accolades.  In it, the action cuts back and forth from the modern era to 1979 on the paradisiac Greek island, Kalokairi. When the film begins, we learn that Donna has died and that her daughter, Sophie, is preparing to open a hotel on Kalokairi, a dream that Donna had had. In the previous film, the plot revolved the fact that a grown-up Sophie did not know whether her father was Bill, Harry, or Sam, and so, she meets all three, accepting them all as her fathers.   In the 70s, a young Donna travels to this location, because she wants to ma...

Written by  Rosa Hopkins , Vice-President @ Life Defenders  My parents had a rocky marriage. Ten years of tantrums, toddlers, fighting, and dealing with the clash of cultures and strong personalities, trouble boiled over to the point of breaking. My mother had plans to leave but began to feel sick. A year prior, her gallbladder had been removed, and in the late 70s, the 18-inch incision took about that long to heal. She was barley passable. At the first sign of distress, she assumed she was experiencing more issues related to digestion, but the doctor insisted she take a pregnancy test. With her first and second-born children aged seven and eight years old, she had absolutely no plans to have another child. Divorce was on the horizon, and a job with the local post office was hiring. A baby was not what my mother had wanted, and yet, the physician confirmed that I wasn’t a kidney stone she was carrying but a growing, twisting, expanding new life within h...

By “Missy” I  found out that the co-worker I had slept with actually had a wife after I told him I was pregnant and he said I needed to get an abortion or it would ruin his marriage. I felt shocked, ashamed & used. He told he'd take me to the clinic and naive to what he just said, I informed him that I had already confirmed my pregnancy with the doctors. He insisted that we go for a drive; it didn’t occur to me that there wasn’t a Planned Parenthood in town , so I figured he just wanted to talk it over. That was until he placed a couple hundred dollars in my hand telling me that he had an ex-girlfriend who had an abortion and said it was “no big deal”.  When I refused his money he said that if I didn’t “get rid of it” I couldn’t see him again. That didn’t matter to me because from the moment I found out he lied about being married, the relationship was already over.  I did have an appointment later that day though. A prenatal appointment.  When m...

Guest article written and sent to Life Defenders by  Albany Rose In 2013 I went back to Planned Parenthood to reclaim my abortion records. I needed to hold those papers, and in my heart it felt like that last bit of healing. I was able to retrieve them without issue, and as I sat in my car looking through the files, I came across photocopies of my ultrasound. There are no just words to express the sorrow that swept over me in that moment. To see the child who I had deemed my son, Tucker, in a photo for the first and only time in my life was healing and earth shattering all at once. Growing up I lived in a true to form Christian conservative home. Abortion was never really mentioned, but was more-so implied in church life. I never really felt “at home” at home with my mother and step-father, and at the age of 13 after freshman year of high school, I moved to Colorado to live with my biological father. My life went from strict rules to no rules, surrounded by an incredib...

The Easter story has three different types of “ friendships”. It’s Palm Sunday and the whole day I’ve been reflecting on and pondering the stark difference between that day compared to Jesus’ scourging and crucifixion not even a week later. Maybe it’s because , lately, I’ve had a fair amount of hurt from people I looked up to and were close with.  Amongst the crowd of those paying their respects to the Messiah were the jealous and scheming Pharisees. If you looked into the crowd, you probably wouldn’t be able to identify them because they blended in like foundation to a blemish.  John 12:12-19  The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “ Hosanna![a]” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b] “Blessed is the king of Israel!” Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:   “Do not be afraid, Daughter ...