Farewell to a Pro-Life Hero
by Jonathon Van MarenJohn Barros stood for nearly two decades outside an abortion clinic as a sidewalk counselor. Continue Reading »
A Colorado Pro-Life Clinic Fights for the Right to Offer Abortion Pill Reversal
by Frank DeVitoBella Health and Wellness v. Weiser, the latest case at the forefront of the fight for life and faith in Colorado, may not be getting as much media attention as Masterpiece Cakeshop or 303 Creative, but it should. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI very much enjoyed Armin Rosen’s essay about the Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (“Tarkovksy’s Sublime Terror,” October 2023), but I’m afraid he has made an error of fact about Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia. Rosen says the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, “swallows poison and then . . . . Continue Reading »
Holy Abortion
by Samira KawashIn 2016, Kaeley McEvoy was a student at New York’s Union Theological Seminary and a ministry intern at Judson Memorial Church in Washington Square. She hadn’t expected to get pregnant; a long-acting contraceptive implant was supposed to have prevented it. But the pink line on the plastic test . . . . Continue Reading »
What We Can Learn from Pro-Life Losses
by Jonathon Van MarenThe central task of the pro-life movement is to confront the culture by proving our premises that abortion is an act of violence that ends the life of a human being in the womb. Continue Reading »
How to Fix a Hole in the Heart
by Matthew HennesseyThe doctor turned to face us. He was a tall man, athletic and thin, put-together and with a quiet, intellectual air. He wasn’t what you’d call handsome, but he carried himself well and had a lot of things going for him: crisp posture, trousers neatly creased, expensive loafers. He even smelled . . . . Continue Reading »
Life at the Center: A Pro-life Statement
by Thomas Joseph White, Kevin L. Flannery, O. Carter Snead, Christopher TollefsenThose who seek to advance the Catholic Church’s teaching regarding the sanctity of life confront both new challenges and opportunities in the wake of the June 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. On the one hand, many people in the U.S. and in other developed nations have . . . . Continue Reading »
Polluted Erotic Ecologies
by Angela FranksSometimes life is stranger than art. Suppose you were a novelist, and your book's protagonist is the genderqueer founder of a web start-up who calls herself Sebastian. Suppose the novel charts this character’s further transformation into a stay-at-home mom now going by her birth name of Mary and . . . . Continue Reading »
We Are Repaganizing
by Louise PerryThere’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”: he said they’d found a brothel on the dig he did last night I asked him how they know he sighed: a pit of babies’ bones a pit of newborn babies’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Biden’s Awkward Abortion Legacy
by John MurdockThe “Biden Amendment” has long limited abortion-related spending abroad, but its future is uncertain—especially as its namesake continues a long march away from his earlier anti-abortion positions. Continue Reading »
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