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June 2017

June 02, 2017

The ACLU is targeting Catholic hospitals

One in six patients in America today is treated in a Catholic hospital. The numbers...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Bioethical nightmares

Human embryos have been produced asexually, as with the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. Scientists...

May 19, 2017

“The way of life” vs. “The way of death”

“I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God’s work.” So says Dr....

May 15, 2017

Assault on pro-life doctors

The Hippocratic Oath specifically forbids physicians from committing abortion or euthanasia. So that oath isn't used...

May 11, 2017

Abortionist on “euthanizing” the baby

An abortion clinic in Albuquerque will abort a baby at any stage through all nine...

May 10, 2017

We mustn’t call breastfeeding “natural”

An article in the medical journal Pediatrics says that it is “unethical” to describe breastfeeding...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

All Democrats must now support abortion

The new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, says that all Democratic candidates...

April 19, 2017

Criminalizing pro-lifers

In France, it is illegal to attempt to disuade anyone from getting an abortion. It...

April 14, 2017

States can now stop funding Planned Parenthood

President Trump signed into law a measure passed by Congress that would allow states to...

April 03, 2017

Why April is the cruelest month

"April is the cruelest month." That snatch of poetry always comes to mind when the...

April 03, 2017

And now, the nature rights movement

The language of "rights" tends to win all arguments. There are "human rights." These include...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Criminalizing the opposition

The state of California has slapped 15 felony charges on David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt,...

March 28, 2017

Child sacrifice

Authorities and Christian ministries are fighting a major problem in Uganda: child sacrifice. Many animists...

March 15, 2017

Forcing pro-life centers to advertise abortions

Hawaii is on the verge of passing a law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to post...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The travails of pro-life Democrats

Who do you think said this? "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even...

February 22, 2017

Parents who regret having children

A new category of victims has emerged in feminist and other progressive circles: "regretful parents."...

February 21, 2017

Starving patients to death

Euthanasia laws have a way of expanding. Once a society accepts the concept that sick...

February 20, 2017

The death and new life of “Jane Roe”

Norma McCorvey, who went by the name of "Jane Roe" in the infamous Roe v....

February 17, 2017

Bringing back the woolly mammoth

A team of scientists working on "de-extinction" says that they hope to engineer a woolly...

February 14, 2017

The two kinds of romantic love

One kind of romantic love leads to life--to marriage, fruitful sexuality, children, family, virtue. The...

February 09, 2017

Selling abortions

Abortion is Planned Parenthood's product. Like other businesses, Planned Parenthood imposes sales quotas and uses...

February 01, 2017

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

Planned Parenthood does NOT offer pre-natal care

Defenders of Planned Parenthood say that the organization does more than perform abortions. It also...

January 30, 2017

Now a human/pig hybrid

Scientists have combined the cells of a pig with the cells of a human, resulting...

January 27, 2017

Marching for Life is getting somewhere

Today is the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., where thousands of pro-lifers will...

January 24, 2017

When Jesse Jackson was pro-life and why he changed

In a tribute to the recently-deceased Nat Hentoff, Carl Trueman describes an encounter on a train...

January 23, 2017

Susan B. Anthony and the other early feminists were pro-life

Feminists today hail the pioneers of women's rights, the suffragettes and 19th century activists who...

January 20, 2017

Pro-life women excluded from “Women’s March”

The day after Donald Trump's Inauguration, thousands of women will march on Washington to demonstrate...

January 19, 2017

Planned Parenthood won’t report child sex-trafficking?

In 2011, a Live Action crew posing as sex traffickers, visited a number of Planned...

January 09, 2017

“The last honest liberal” dies

Nat Hentoff, 91, has died. The jazz critic for the Village Voice, Hentoff described himself...