Lent at Planned Parenthood

by Charlotte Allen

A few days ago, I joined a group of people praying outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading »

5 Mar 2018

Letter from a Toronto Jail

by Douglas Farrow

One of Canada’s prisoners of conscience, Mary Wagner, in a moving letter from her Vanier Centre cell, writes of her concern that many members of our Christian medical associations, “despite their earnest desire to resist doctor-abetted suicide, have succumbed to defeatism.”She points to . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2016

A Mandate to Disobey

by R. R. Reno

The Affordable Care Act mandates that employers offer and individuals buy insurance that provides free contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization. It seems we have passed from a society that allows legal access to these drugs and services to one that insists that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2012

The Future of the End of Democracy

by J. Budziszewski

If you want to know why the United States is in a constitutional crisis, a good place to begin thinking about it is the series of outrages perpetrated by the 1992 Supreme Court decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld the outcome, though not the reasoning, of the infamous abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1999

Resisting the Sovereign

by Russell Hittinger

The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty By Stephen L. Carter Harvard University Press. 167 pp. $19.95 This spring the American media gave considerable attention to critics of the Vatican statement on the Holocaust, “We Remember.” A conspicuous line of criticism . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1998