No Compassion for Men 

    The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece highlighting the rise in “men suing over their partners’ abortions.” The piece framed these lawsuits as mere ploys from the ‘anti-abortion movement’ to target abortion providers, suggesting that the male plaintiffs...
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Why It’s Time for a New, Life-Affirming Path Forward in Medicine

The day the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center was announced in June of 2022, I was on a 24-hour shift at my hospital in Indiana, where I work as an obstetric hospitalist, serving women who have been admitted either for labor and delivery or due...
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Overcoming the World

  In a recent address to French Catholic political leaders gathered in Rome for the Holy Year, Pope Leo spoke of the weighty challenges they face in our often hostile world: I am well aware that the openly Christian commitment of a public official is not easy, especially in...
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Seen But Not Heard

  I recently made a trip to Tabora, Tanzania, a place most people I know have probably never heard of let alone visited. Certainly, I would not have heard of it but for a connection with the Anglican bishop there, who had repeatedly invited me to visit his diocese. The trip...
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Federal court affirms: Pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment never ratified

  A federal court case recently affirmed that the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment is not a part of the Constitution, despite last-second claims by President Joe Biden. The acknowledgement came when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a...
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Virginia High School Staffers Helped Two Girls Get Secret Abortions, Report Says

    A Virginia high school is investigating claims that staffers helped facilitate abortions for two teen girls without their parents’ knowledge. Fairfax County Schools launched the investigation following media reporting on the controversy. However, the whistleblower...
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Challenging the Church on Abortion

  This is my second, and last, Pastoral Reflection that centers on a declaration for life. Promise. In 1988, a small group of United Methodist pastors began discussing the possibility of writing a declaration addressed to The United Methodist Church on life and abortion. In...
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Thoughts on Baby Thaddeus

  You’d have to search pretty deep in the news to find the story about Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, born July 26.  If you do find the story, it’ll likely be festooned with language about “miracle baby” or curiosity click-bait about “world’s oldest baby.”  Just don’t expect much...
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The Logic of Abortion

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all...
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A New Twist to the Meaning of Being Pro-life

  The conventional meaning of being “pro-life” is related to the abortion issue. Whereas abortion advocates identified themselves as being “pro-abortion” or “pro-choice,” those who opposed abortion responded by calling themselves “pro-life.” Being “anti-abortion” was a tag...
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