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January 2020

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...

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...

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:...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

If You’re Counting on Basic Human Decency to Stop Fascism, You May be Counting Wrong

We know all about the banality of evil. But that's not what we're seeing here....

July 2018

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...

March 2018

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 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...

January 16, 2017

women’s march drops pro-life group – what’s a pro-life feminist to do?

We should not be excluded from this march. We have risked personal and professional relationships...

November 2016

November 26, 2016

to march or not to march? some thoughts on ends and activism

making statements is not the ultimate end of being pro-life. Defeating the opposition is not...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

this attack on democrats for life indicates that, for some, party loyalty takes precedence over life ethics

One of the first uses of "pro-life" to denote opposition to abortion was in 1971,...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Are We Depending on Abortion?

In order to minimize the demand for abortion, we need reframe our view of pregnancy,...