Abortion & IVF

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity

Robert Louis Wilken

The arcane academic title of this book” Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity ”offers no…

Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion

Nathan Schlueter / Robert H. Bork

Readers of First Things should by now be well-acquainted with the heated national debate—in part inspired by…

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Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectivesedited by robert t. pennockmit press, 805…

Capital and Other Punishments

Gilbert Meilaender

Events of recent months”in particular, the execution of Timothy McVeigh and, just prior to it, public airing…

Turn Out the Lights?

James Nuechterlein

Not long ago, my pastor asked if I’d be willing to serve as a delegate for our…

Trinity and Truth

R. R. Reno

Trinity and Truth by bruce d. marshall cambridge university press, 304 pages, $55.44 There is a danger…

So What’s the Big Deal About Partial Birth Abortion?

Richard John Neuhaus

Outside the circles of pro-abortion extremism, almost all Americans are revulsed by partial-birth abortion. State after state…

Attacking the Tabernacle

Peter J. Leithart

For more than two decades, Psalm 139:13 has served as a slogan for the anti-abortion movement, adorning…

Sex, Naturally

Joseph B. Stanford

When I entered medical school at the University of Minnesota in 1984 I did not know that…

Winning Hearts and Minds

Paul F. Swope

Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women by andrea l. press and elizabeth…

Two Boats, a Helicopter & Stem Cells

Russell E. Saltzman

Remember the story of the guy who died in the flood? A Red Cross boat had come…

Catholics, Protestants, and Contraception

James Nuechterlein

It has become a commonplace that religious controversy today occurs more often across church boundaries than between…

The Future of the End of Democracy

J. Budziszewski

If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place…

The Pro-Life Movement Then and Now

Dave Andrusko

Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. By Cynthia Gorney. Simon & Shuster. 575…

Abortion: A Failure to Communicate

Paul F. Swope

For twenty-five years the pro-life movement has stood up to defend perhaps the most crucial principle in…