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A hand holding a sign supporting pro-choice abortion laws during a planned parenthood rally for abortion justice.

Roe v. Wade Was a Profound Disservice to the Country

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.

Jane’s Revenge Threats against Pro-Lifers Presage a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’

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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Night view of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, United States

Political Passions Threaten a New ‘Bleeding Kansas’

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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Newborn baby holding mother's hand.

With Dobbs on Horizon, States Continue to Ramp up Pro-Life Legislation in 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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Pro-Life Push to Overturn Roe v. Wade in the Grand Tradition of American Democracy

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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WHO Demands Allowing Abortion through Ninth Month

There can no longer be any doubt: The international public-health establishment has gone absolutist on allowing abortion at any time, for any reason, without restrictions of any kind. Read More ›
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Premature newborn  baby girl

Now, a California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect

One blue-state bill that would allow a born baby to be neglected to death might be an anomaly. A second that does that — and perhaps could be interpreted to allow infanticide, also — is a pattern. The cultural Left is blazing new grounds of depravity. Read More ›
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Newborn baby holding mother's hand.

Bioethicist Asks, ‘Does Birth Matter?’ Answers, ‘No’

The core problem with contemporary bioethics is that the movement denies human exceptionalism. In this view, being human is morally irrelevant. What matters are capacities, such as the ability to value one’s life, which make one a “person.” Read More ›
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Pro-choice Planned Parenthood demonstration holding a sign

Texas Heartbeat Law Beats Strongly, Inspires Other States to Follow Suit

The Texas heartbeat law has given tens of thousands of Texas babies a second chance at life. The pro-life movement embraces women in unplanned pregnancies and stands ready to help them. The current situation in Texas gives us a peek into a post-Roe world. Yes, we can love them both and save them both, and we must. Simply put, the (heart)beat goes on. Read More ›