Abortion & IVF
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Baby Talk
Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt Random House, 194 pages, $20 Roger Rosenblatt…
By the Road South of Fairplay, Georgia
It assaults the eye, the Ponder familygraveyard, with twin obelisks visiblehalf a mile away. Inside its fence,weeds,…
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
At the foundation of any democratic society is the principle that the laws that order our lives…
Abortion and Political Compromise
Roe v. Wade is clearly in for substantial pruning—possibly even an outright overruling—in the near future. Thus…
Repent Ye!
Jesus is coming repent Ye!reads the scrawled signof this man who is not John the Baptistbut who…
The Naked Public Square: A Metaphor Reconsidered
Christian groups called “Adventist” trace their roots to 1844, the year that some had fixed for the…
Koop De Grâce
Koop: The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $22.50 What…
The RU-486 Icon
In A. S. Byatt’s recent novel, Possession, the main character notes that the one unchallenged dogma of his generation…
Rights and Wrongs About Rights
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse by Mary Ann Glendon Free Press, 288 pages, $22.95 One…
Consequences of Columbus
Just when we were convinced that Newsweek, like its counterpart Time, is an essentially superficial magazine for…
Always to Care, Never to Kill:
The following declaration was produced by the Ramsey Colloquium of the Institute on Religion and Public Life…
Abortion on Second Thought
I was a teenager and young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before Roe v.…
Infernal Counsel
Dear Cachexia, Well, isn’t this impressive! You’ve had charge of this patient of yours for just two…
Abortion and the Actualized Self
The Choices We Made (Angela Bonavoglia, 1990) is the latest collection of sympathetic abortion narratives, a genre…
Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse
Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past…