Maine Chapter – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Rebuttal to Fake Abortion Clinics column

by Denney Arbour (https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/04/08/maine-compass-maines-pregnancy-centers-the-rest-of-the-story/)In March 2023, the Kennebec Journal chose to publish an opinion column headlined “Tom Waddell: Maine’s crisis pregnancy centers only serve to deceive” that was meant to deceive its readership, taint the great work and reputation of Maine Pregnancy Centers (MPCs), and spread ill will toward them.What’s equally disturbing is the KJ’s lack of discretion in providing an opinion platform for false and hateful content about the MPCs that serve pregnant women and their children in a loving, compassionate, and life-giving manner.The article uses the phrase “genuine pregnancy centers” to refer to Maine Family Planning and Planned (more…) Read More

Abortion Is Healthcare

Abortion is healthcare. Every man, woman, and child needs the women in their lives to have an abortion when she decides it is in the best interest of herself or her family. No one, except those who want to take away a woman’s right to choose, would want any woman to forgo any medical procedure that was in the best interest of the woman and her family. When a woman is forced by law to carry a pregnancy to term, a pregnancy that the woman wants to terminate, the harm to her emotional well-being and her family’s economic hardship can (more…) Read More

Critical Race Theory

CRT encourages accurate teaching of our nation’s history. If we don’t teach our children accurate history, young people will never learn from our nation’s failures or appreciate its successes. Unfortunately, some people only want to teach children a whitewashed version of history that portrays America as the mythical shining city on the hill it claims to be.W.E.B DuBois got it right when he wrote in “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903), “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” The Kerner Commission (1968), a study published three weeks before Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, warned, (more…) Read More