The Difference Three Percent Makes

by Betsy Childs Howard

According to the Planned Parenthood, just 3 percent of its services are abortion related. So why are so many clinics closing? Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2014

Life on the Divide

by Elizabeth C. Corey

On a typical afternoon, I drop off my eight-year-old daughter and her best friend at ballet lessons and return home to meet my five-year-old son’s friend for a “play date.” Their mothers and I appear to have everything in common. We all order our children’s clothes from the same upscale . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2012

The Abortion Cocktail

by Bernard N. Nathanson

In April 1970, in the pages of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Review, I reviewed the history of attempts to control population growth by means of medical—i.e., nonsurgical—abortion. Starting in antiquity, I found that the ancient Greeks did not generally approve of abortion, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1996

Killing Abortionists: A Symposium

by Various

Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced the following rationale for his action: “Whatever force is legitimate in defending a born child is legitimate in defending an unborn child.” For some who believe that the moral status of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1994

Reviving the Missionary Mandate

by Richard John Neuhaus

The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled  “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described the complicated connections between the Christian missionary enterprise and the future of an essentially Western civilization that is, in however ambiguous a manner, a product of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991