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One milestone missed amid the chaos of those first pandemic months of 2020 was the sixtieth anniversary of the FDA’s approval of the world’s first contraceptive pill, Enovid. Lauded from the beginning as a “liberator” of women that would free them from unwanted pregnancies, “the... Read More →

  Proponents of legal abortion often couch their position in the language of female empowerment, claiming that abortion is necessary to protect women’s freedom, equality, and opportunity. But while supporters often speak about abortion in terms of “women’s rights” and... Read More →

Recently, a friend referred to Ronald Reagan’s years in office and, with the offhandedness of one who believes he is stating a generally accepted truth, said the president talked a great deal about abortion but “didn’t do anything about it.” It’s been more than three decades... Read More →

  After a life spent in daily journalism, I am coming to believe that you have to watch the little stuff in daily life in order to acquire some intellectual hold on the big stuff. Add up a lot of little stuff, after appropriate sorting, and you may arrive at a depiction, or... Read More →

Will a conservatively configured Supreme Court finally put a brake on “top-down enactments like Roe” that attempt to “cram great moral determinations down people’s throats”? That fateful decision, writes senior editor William Murchison, by “shielding pro-choice advocates from the... Read More →

  In the days following the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft of the Dobbs case, which threatens Roe v Wade, Amazon announced it would contribute up to $4000 to any employee who must travel to get an abortion.  Abortion as economics.  A court decision may not affect overmuch... Read More →

There’s an article gaining traction on certain corners of the internet claiming that a confidential Pfizer document revealed that 82 percent of vaccinated pregnant women suffered miscarriage due to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. These claims should draw alarm if they were true. But... Read More →

A new Nature review reports a 15% decrease in risk of stillbirth for women vaccinated against COVID-19. This paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis, meaning the authors pooled the data from 23 previously published studies to analyze any trends that appear with a larger... Read More →

  As I’ve shown in previous writing and am now researching further, abortion in colonial America was rare, and its illegality uncontroversial. Popular books carried a pro-life message. One, written by a person who called himself “Aristotle,” instructed midwives to refuse “to... Read More →

  [Samuel D. James serves as associate acquisitions editor at Crossway Books. The following column was published July 19, 2021, on the website of First Things (www.firstthings. com) and is reprinted here with the magazine’s permission.]... Read More →