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May 2024

May 02, 2024

Abortion Supply and Demand

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the United...

April 2024

April 23, 2024

Trump’s Abortion Policy

In debating Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas wanted to leave the question of slavery up...

September 2023

September 26, 2023

Trump Turns Against Pro-Lifers

Donald Trump won pro-lifers' support by promising to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn...

February 2021

February 19, 2021

Fighting Abortion from the Demand Side

Pro-lifers often concentrate on the supply side of abortion, trying to make the procedure less...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

The Historic Evangelical Opposition to Abortion

The pro-abortion camp is saying that evangelicals used to support abortion. But actually, despite one...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Why America Is Polarized

How did America get to be so polarized? Why are Americans so disunified and our...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Why the Alt-Right is Pro-Abortion

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) is trying to associate the pro-life movement with...

May 2017

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....

February 2016

February 10, 2016

When being pro-life was a liberal issue

Not only did liberals used to be pro-life, opposing abortion used to be a progressive...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Annunciation as a pro-life holiday

Yesterday was the celebration of the Annunciation, the ancient church holiday nine months before Christmas...

March 07, 2014

Political conservatives vs. social conservatives?

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the big conservative conclave that meets annually to...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

March for Life day

Today is the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized...

December 2013

December 17, 2013

Pro-life victory in Europe

The European Parliament shot down a sweeping pro-abortion law, which would make abortion on demand...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Abortion Clinics Closing at Record Rate

The pro-life movement is winning some major victories on the ground. The result is that...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Wikileaks, Rand Paul, and abortion

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is championing Edward Snowden and his NSA revelations, says that...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

IRS harassment of pro-life groups

More increasingly alarming details are coming out about the IRS scandal. See this, for the...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

C. Everett Koop dies

C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General under President Reagan, has died at age 96. The...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Is Romney going soft on abortion?

Mitt Romney, as expected, seems to be tacking towards the center in an effort to...

September 2012

September 10, 2012

Cardinal Dolan’s prayer for the Democrats

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, gave the closing prayer at the Republican convention,...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

Number of pro-choicers at historic low

It would seem that pro-lifers are winning the argument. Except that a large number of...

February 2012

February 08, 2012

Pro-abortionists have the money and the power

Russell D. Moore at Christianity Today on the Susan G. Komen foundation's caving to Planned...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

A pro-life movement in Russia

In Russia, the most commonly-used method of birth control is abortion. It has the world's...

November 10, 2011

Personhood amendment voted down

The people of Mississippi rejected a state constitutional amendment that would classify a human embryo...

November 08, 2011

The discovery of pro-life women

The Washington Post's Lisa Miller discovered something that really seems to have surprised her, that...

November 07, 2011

Personhood amendments

Mississippi voters will decide on Tuesday whether or not to amend their state constitution to...

March 2010

March 25, 2010

To stupak

Bart Stupak, the pro-life Democratic congressman from Michigan, went from a hero to a goat...

March 23, 2010

The political weakness of the pro-abortionists

President Obama's executive order preventing federal money from paying for abortions in the new national...

March 16, 2010

do-nothing Republicans vs. pro-life Democrats

Pro-life activist Marjorie Dannenfelser serves notice on the Republican party, which increasingly seems to be...

March 15, 2010

Would universal health care lower the abortion rate?

Catholic journalist T. J. Reid makes a challenging connection for us pro-lifers: Increasing health-care coverage...

January 2010

January 25, 2010

The pro-life generation

The pro-abortionists are worried. Journalist Robert McCartney, one of their number, explains why: I went...