The Power of Love

  In the weeks since the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, American public life has been disrupted by protest and violence: Enraged abortion advocates filling city squares.  Mostly young women shouting slogans like “forc...
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Instead of Abortions, Insurance Company Offers Women Pregnancy Care

    A slew of major corporations, in the lead-up to and following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, offered to help pay for employees to get abortions if they have to travel out of state. Amazon, Walt Disney Company, Meta, and many more changed their policies to encourage...
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The Story of Jane Redux

    In the 1960s, a group of radical feminists and other left-wing activists in Chicago began connecting women whom they encountered in their political work with an African American physician in Woodlawn, on the south side of the University of Chicago campus. This...
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Ignoring Surgical Abortion’s Effect on Infant Mortality in Ohio

  A popular indicator of a nation’s health is the rate of infant mortality (the death of an infant within the first year of life). Logic would seem to dictate that technologically and medically advanced countries like the United States would have low rates of infant...
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Now Politicians Are Attacking Pregnancy Resource Centers, Too

    Dozens of crisis pregnancy centers have come under attack in recent weeks, as pro-abortion activists have turned to graffiti, arson, and threats of violence in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. But the attacks on these centers and clinics...
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The Legal Consequences of Dobbs

  The goal the pro-life movement has worked and prayed for over the last half-century has finally been accomplished. The Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade[1] and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.[2] Here is the money quote from the majority opinion in Dobbs v....
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What About Pro-choice?

The Roe v. Wade opinion of the 1973 Supreme Court virtually altered the Rights of Man doctrine—the universal acknowledgement that every person has the right to life, liberty, and property. The heretofore intelligibly ordained and unalienable social standards by which Americans...
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Swords to Plowshares

    As I write, America is reeling from yet another mass shooting. My social media has been overflowing with disturbing images—e.g., a dump truck emptying piles of waste labeled “thoughts and prayers”—along with loud calls for more gun control and equally loud calls to...
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Maria McFadden Maffucci: Two Interviews on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned

On the triumphant Friday morning, June 24, 2022, the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Maria McFadden Maffucci was interviewed by two news outlets:  ...
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ROE OVERTURNED

    The goal the pro-life movement has worked and prayed for over the last half-century has finally been accomplished. The Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Here is the money quote from the majority opinion, authored by...
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