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February 2021

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

Yes, There Is a Place in the Democratic Party for Pro-Life Voters

Faced with the alternative of an administration that has proven itself willing to flout fundamental...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?

If human life is the thing that you value most, you have to do more...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Trump’s Attendance At the March For Life Is Significant – But Not In the Way His Supporters Claim

With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult...

January 10, 2020

Reducing Abortion Rates and Protecting Women’s Rights Are Goals That Can and Should Co-Exist

The important thing is, we do agree that a right to life is real, and...

October 2019

October 02, 2019

So, What If Abortion Really Is Driven By White Supremacy?

If they really believe racism is behind abortion, and really want to stop it -...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

Dear Pope Francis: This Kind of Language About Abortion is Not Helping

Once again, Pope Francis has compared having an abortion to “hiring a hitman.” As reported...

May 16, 2019

It’s Time to Move Past the Pro-Life / Pro-Choice Dividing Line

What if we let the jury remain out on difficult metaphysical questions about personhood, and...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

Capital Punishment For Abortion Is Not Pro-Life

While the legislation is unlikely to pass, given extensive resistance - including from some pro-life...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

Why Are People So Unwilling To Do What Is Proven Effective For Protecting Unborn Life?

From the time I was old enough to vote, I knew one thing for sure:...

February 07, 2019

Here’s What We’re Not Addressing in the “Late Term Abortion” Debate

Until we’ve done something about the complete inaccessibility of medical care for many women in...

January 2019

January 12, 2019

A Pro-Life Gentleman Expresses his Concern to a Vulgar Strumpet

I do not think that he saves many babies with his attitude. It is unlikely...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Congratulations, Republicans: You’ve Succeeded In Making the Old Abortion Debates Irrelevant

When I first started writing here, I began teasing out the idea that we need...

October 16, 2018

Conservatives Comment on Sexual Assault: A Curious Inconsistency

I think I needed a little breathing time before writing about this issue without succumbing...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

What Is The Dispute Over Kavanaugh And His Accusers Really About?

The idea that the dispute is about abortion is undercut both by the fact that...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

July 09, 2018

SCOTUS Pick Kavanaugh Argued a Sitting President Shouldn’t Be Indicted, Will Respect Abortion Precedent

Two years ago, as the November presidential elections loomed large, conservatives and pro-lifers were breathlessly...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

If Alfie Evans Had Been An American Baby

44 million Americans are uninsured right now. My children and I are among these. Being...

April 2018

April 07, 2018

Media Bias Against Pro-lifers?

It’s not bias when pro-lifers are doing exactly what the media accuses them of doing

March 2018

March 29, 2018

A Problem With Privilege in Abortion Rhetoric

I wonder whether one day we in rich, spoiled America will look back in horror...

March 26, 2018

With Your Response to Gun Violence, A New Line Has Been Drawn

when it comes to children saying “we are tired of being mindlessly slaughtered” – the...

February 2018

February 10, 2018

In Defending Life, Draw the Circle Wide

A true ethic of life means drawing the circle of "what lives are owed protection"...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

A Brief Statement on Grammar and Ethics, for the Spies and Screenshotters Out There

I take a both-and approach, as asserted in my screenshotted statement, and in all my...

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

It’s Not Just About the Hypocrisy: Representative Tim Murphy, Abortion, and the Problem with Rejecting Consistent Life Ethics

what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all

October 03, 2017

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Reasonable Legislation in Defense of Life

We need to have humane laws such as this in place

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Why the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Be Rebuilt

In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Pro-Life Sexual Ethics Without Punishment or Shame

Bottom line: there is no excuse for Christians to fail to be merciful toward sexual...