Abortion & IVF
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How to Win Elections as a Pro-Life Politician
In public debates on abortion, “pro-life” candidates either lose or—at best—don’t win. They either pick fights they…
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
The trends aren’t dramatic, but they are noteworthy nonetheless. Americans are gradually becoming more pro-life. In 2012…
Let Religious Freedom Ring
Update: In a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court decided in Hobby Lobby’s favor. When Chuck…
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture
U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching…
Yale’s Agony Over Social Justice
Last night Yale’s campus pro-life group—after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped…
Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?
From time to time a member of the Christian left will admonish the Christian right to stop…
Britain’s Baby Burning
The British public is currently being scandalized by the revelations that hospitals there have been incinerating the…
Tragic Worship
The problem with much Christian worship in the contemporary world, Catholic and Protestant alike, is not that…
European Faith Made Private
Western Europe is thought to be the only part of the world where Christianity is in decline,…
Time for Pro-Lifers to Learn How to Talk About Rape
Last month, a Swiss woman biking through India with her husband was gang raped by five attackers.…
Leaving Brooklyn
My family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God’s country) for over…
“Forward” Into a Sterile Future
Stumping in Iowa on May 24, President Obama declared, “We don’t need another political fight about ending…
Life Too Inconvenient for Life
The Journal of Medical Ethics, an altogether mainstream, peer-reviewed scholarly publication, recently published an article justifying “after-birth…
Contraceptive Controversy
The Obama administration was surprised by the degree and intensity of resistance to the Health and Human…
Go With God
The Christian religion,” wrote Robert Louis Wilken, “is inescapably ritualistic (one is received into the Church by…