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  The euphoria with which pro-life citizens greeted the 2022 Dobbs decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, has faded in the two years since then. As Monica Klem points out in a recent article on National Review’s website, although several state... Read More →

  The mid-to-late fifties were a good time to grow up in Garden City, Kansas—a town of 10,000. My mother never lacked love, energy, dreams, and the most encouraging words. My father modeled a work ethic, held us accountable, and shared his wisdom, including how to be... Read More →

I have indeed merely assumed that abortion is morally wrong, and have gone from there. But I’ve done this intentionally: as seen above in Section 2, it is commonplace— though not universal—for authors to claim that abortion restrictions are bad for women, and in particular for... Read More →

  In May of 2024, a Pennsylvania nurse who had been charged with 22 counts of mistreatment of her patients was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Former registered nurse Heather Pressdee was sentenced after having pled guilty to three counts of... Read More →

  Ah gits weary An’ sick of tryin’; Ah’m tired of livin’ An skeered of dyin’, —“Ol’ Man River,” from Show Boat, 1927 And aren’t we all, some days, just like Joe and his dockside gang, in that wondrous classic bequeathed us by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II: worn out,... Read More →

Fall of 2024 witnessed a variety of news accounts on the topic of assisted suicide. On Nov. 11, The New Atlantis broke an exclusive story about Canada’s increasingly messy Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practice. Using leaked documents, Alexander Raikin reported ... Read More →

At our 50th anniversary dinner last fall, co-host Jack Fowler rolled his eyes at the notion of “depressed” Americans who, unhappy with the election results, wanted to move to Canada: “They kill depressed people in Canada,” he quipped. That might come as a surprise to Hollywood... Read More →

  It was the seventies. Susan and I walked past it every Sunday on our way to and from church. It was a lovely little house, single-story, low adobe wall lined with flowers around the yard, a walk to the door. One Sunday, Susan told me: “They do abortions there.” We were... Read More →

  Ash Wednesday is nearly upon us, the beginning of Lent. The imposition of ashes of burnt palm branches on our foreheads calls to mind the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. In his honor, the people laid out palm branches along the road that took Jesus, riding on a... Read More →

    Michigan state Representative Laurie Pohutsky woke up and decided that something needed to be done. Her home state of Michigan, where the recently passed Proposition 3 enshrined abortion up to birth for any reason and even for minors, suddenly felt unsafe for a... Read More →