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The following is from Ed Mechmann’s public policy blog “Stepping Out of the Boat,” December 18th and is reprinted with permission. The governor of New York has announced that she will sign the assisted suicide bill into law. Since our state already has... Read More →

  The following first appeared in the Irish publication Position Papers (positionpapers.ie) on December 1, 2025. It is reprinted here with permission.   It is a truth not (yet) universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a large grievance must be in want of... Read More →

    Indiana’s government agencies will work together to ensure the state’s pro-life law is “swiftly” enforced, Governor Mike Braun announced recently. The state released a 10-page report on July 1 which details how it will enforce laws against abortion. The report follows an... Read More →

  From its beginning, the pro-life movement has been identifying the reemergence of eugenics, in medicine, law, and society. Indeed, despite the horrors of the Third Reich, the evil ideology never really went away. From Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s crusade to... Read More →

The following is a reprint from Ed Mechmann’s blog, “Stepping Out of the Boat,” from April 28. Reprinted with permission. Sadly, the New York State Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act yesterday, April 29th. It now goes to the Senate.   New York has... Read More →

      On Thursday, January 24, we got great news. President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists including Lauren Handy, Jonathan Darnel, Jay Smith, John Hinshaw, William Goodman, Joan Bell, Paulette Harlow, Jean Marshall, Heather Idoni, and Herb Geraghty,... Read More →

  A version of the following was printed in The Dove, a publication of Regis High School, where Raymond Sullivan is a senior. It’s election season: the time of year when candidates for office across the country come together to debate their opponents and explain their... Read More →

  The following is a reprint of Timothy P. Carney’s column in the Washington Examiner on Sept. 20, 2024.   A woman in Georgia got a legal abortion, and it killed her.  If this isn’t how you understand the tragic death of Amber Thurman, that’s because you have been... Read More →

    On the issue of abortion, which Democrats consider their great strength, Vice President Kamala Harris’ only response during the presidential debate to former President Donald Trump’s question about her comfort with abortions in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month... Read More →

  Last week, we celebrated the 248th anniversary of our nation’s Declaration of Independence, a bold act of defiance that ultimately, after eight long years of revolutionary war, resulted in Great Britain’s recognition of the sovereignty of the United States in the Treaty of... Read More →