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  One hundred years ago, John Scopes was convicted of violating Tennessee’s ban on teaching evolution. His trial—enshrined in popular mythology as a victory of enlightened science over benighted religion—left more behind than just a courtroom verdict. It helped entrench a... Read More →

Washington state officials will take $11 million from an emergency fund to give to Planned Parenthood to ensure it could keep aborting babies. The decision followed President Donald Trump’s signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a massive budget law that defunded Planned Parenthood... Read More →

  This essay first appeared in Pins in the Liberal Balloon, a 1990 collection of essays from Fr. Canavan. ____________________________________________________________________________ The face of the earth has changed over the centuries and is changing more radically in the... Read More →

  California taxpayers have spent at least $75 million subsidizing abortions and birth control under special programs created after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. But the San Francisco Examiner reports the “Uncompensated Care Grant” program is running out of... Read More →

  The influential British journal The Economist recently reported good news: it claims that “gendercide” – abortions obtained because prenatal testing indicated the child was the “wrong” sex, is down.  In most instances, “wrong” sex = “girl.” If true, that’s certainly good... Read More →

  NPR, the media network that once played a recording of an abortion live on air, recently published a piece on the post-Dobbs landscape that seemingly glamorized the rise of women who are “managing their abortions without doctors.” The piece highlighted the increase in... Read More →

   This past Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision revoking the “constitutional right” to abortion invented by Roe v. Wade. For those of us who want to see unborn children protected by law, Dobbs was a great... Read More →

  Representative Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, waited for hours to receive treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy last year. Medical professionals claimed they were afraid of running afoul of Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Cammack blames misinformation and... Read More →

    A Chicago Teachers Union leader says falling enrollment in public schools can be fixed with abortion. A ProPublica piece details how population decline in Chicago has left dozens of public schools way under capacity, threatening their existence. But the vice... Read More →

  When Roe v. Wade established abortion as a fundamental constitutional “right,” how the new “right” would interface with other rights was unclear. Over almost 50 years, the Supreme Court imposed its vision on society. One of the areas of conflict among “rights” involved... Read More →