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Wesley J. Smith
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January 18, 2023
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To Reduce Abortions, Should Giving Birth Be Free?

Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2023
With Roe v. Wade now in the dustbin of history, the pro-life movement is switching gears to the difficult task of persuading the country to reject abortion. Americans United for Life is in the thick of that fray and has now issued a white paper arguing that birth should be free to every mother in the USA. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 16, 2022
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Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2022

The media already mostly ignores anti-assisted-suicide voices in its biased reporting on that issue. Now, Physicians for Reproductive Health — an organization of pro-abortion medical and non-medical activists — is pushing the media to ban all pro-life voices from its reporting on abortion. From the organization’s open letter to the media, “Stop Giving Airtime to Anti-Abortion Extremists“: We are writing today with a big request: stop giving air-time to anti-abortion activists. As the undersigned over 600 providers of abortion care, people who have had abortions and will have abortions, abortion advocates, and individuals who work with the media regularly, we could not be more concerned for the safety and well-being of our communities, in part because of the misinformation, disinformation, and inflammatory Read More ›

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A hand holding a sign supporting pro-choice abortion laws during a planned parenthood rally for abortion justice.
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 2, 2022
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Roe v. Wade Was a Profound Disservice to the Country

Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2022
Like the abolitionists, anti-child labor campaigners, the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, temperance, anti-war activism, feminism, gay rights, labor union organizing, and so forth, in bringing the country to this portentous moment, pro-life campaigners acted in the grand tradition of social activism that has been a hallmark of the American experience. Read More ›
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A hand holding a sign supporting pro-choice abortion laws during a planned parenthood rally for abortion justice.
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 15, 2022
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Jane’s Revenge Threats against Pro-Lifers Presage a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’

Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2022
I worry that the country is entering a violent time akin to “Bleeding Kansas,” an era during the 1850s when pro- and anti-slavery partisans — most famously, the abolitionist terrorist John Brown — violently contested with each other for political control of the then-territory. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 13, 2022
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Political Passions Threaten a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’

Wesley J. Smith
June 13, 2022
The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a warning that our national politics are careening out of control. Read More ›
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Arina O. Grossu
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May 18, 2022
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With Dobbs on Horizon, States Continue to Ramp up Pro-Life Legislation in 2022

Arina O. Grossu
May 18, 2022
Reports surfaced last week that Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion that was leaked overturning Roe v. Wade is still the only one circulated inside the Supreme Court, giving great hope to pro-life advocates around the country. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 5, 2022
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Pro-Life Push to Overturn Roe v. Wade in the Grand Tradition of American Democracy

Wesley J. Smith
May 5, 2022
What’s more democratic: The Supreme Court imposing a controversial abortion right on the entire country or allowing that contentious issue to be debated and ultimately decided by the people through their elected representatives or voter referenda? Read More ›
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