Ryan T. Anderson

And then there’s this. Writing in the L.A. Times , Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman (former president of Catholics for a Free Choice and former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, respectively) read the writing on the wall. They lament: “Twenty years ago, being pro-life was . . . . Continue Reading »

A surprising result of Roe , of course, is the effect it has had on the Catholic American voter. “It would have required a lot of prescience to predict in 1965 that American politics, for so many decades based on economic divisions, would soon split over social issues and, especially, . . . . Continue Reading »

The L.A. Times , too, has an article today about the pro-life youth movement . Three things stood out. The statistics: Today’s students and young adults have grown up in a time when abortion was widely accessible and acceptable, and a striking number are determined to end that era. Pew . . . . Continue Reading »

There is, of course, some good news to report about abortions: today they’re down by 25% when compared to 1990. Advocates of abortion-on-demand will argue that this is due to changing economic realities and increased access to contraception, but not the results of pro-life legislation or . . . . Continue Reading »

As I mentioned earlier , today is the 35th annual March for Life —held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (and it’s companion case Doe v. Bolton ). Readers might be interested in this interview that First Things board member Robert George did on the legal aspects of Roe . Click on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week I mentioned some of the pro-life events that would be going on in Washington, DC, during the coming weekend and culminating today with the annual March for Life . I forgot to mention the West Coast Walk for Life (which was held over the weekend in San Francisco). You can view some . . . . Continue Reading »

Next Tuesday, January 22, is the 35th annual March for Life . I was fortunate to make it down to D.C. for the march (and the weekend conferences leading up to it) several times when I was a student at Princeton and in the years immediately thereafter. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher Hitchens has a thought-provoking column on these issues in today’s Wall Street Journal . A taste: Here again, the problem is that Sen. Obama wants us to transcend something at the same time he implicitly asks us to give that same something as a reason to vote for him. I must say . . . . Continue Reading »

In other bioethics news . . . A group of scientists in California is reporting that they have successfully created human clones. The AP story and NBC video are here . The paper, in the journal Stem Cells , is here . . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this fall, the Connecticut Catholic bishops decided to comply with a state law requiring all hospitals to administer the morning after pill—Plan B. In a daily article for our homepage, Michael Augros wrote an open letter to the bishops asking them to reconsider. Augros, a professor of . . . . Continue Reading »