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  I recently read Carmen Joy Imes’s Bearing God’s Name, an accessible, albeit somewhat academic meditation on the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. This is just my sort of thing, both meditative and intellectual, biblical and gentle. During the course of the book, Imes... Read More →

  The United States rejoined the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Jan. 24. What’s that, you ask?  The declaration is a statement, originally sponsored by the United States in 2020, that was eventually endorsed by 35-plus countries. Its signatories declare that they support... Read More →

  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed into law a bill to protect abortionists. The passage of the law, which will allow physicians to remove their names from prescriptions for abortion-inducing drugs, is in response to a grand jury indictment of Dr. Margaret... Read More →

  Pro-choicers claim that “science does not know when life begins.” The conceptus, they say, is “a parasite or a tumor,” or “a potential life, part of the woman’s body.” This is not true. The term “fertilized egg” is shorthand for a single-celled human being that has a sex... Read More →

  President Donald Trump’s first term boasted so many pro-life victories that he has been called the most pro-life president in American history. Despite this, his lackluster pro-life support and promises on the 2024 campaign trail concerned many pro-life advocates.... Read More →

  Just a few days into his newly minted presidency, Donald Trump, amid a flurry of executive orders, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners of conscience. With a few strokes of a pen, Trump freed Bevelyn Beatty Williams, a wife and mother from Tennessee; Eva Edl, a... Read More →

  On the morning of the March for Life, my alarm clock was a tiny bird outside my window, belting out the crispest notes she could hit. The bird should still have been sleeping as the temperature was below freezing outside. But instead, she was flooding the sky with her... Read More →

  Lushi, a new startup that offers in-home or telehealth visits from fertility technicians to assist in hormone injections for women going through the egg-freezing process, is named after a breed of chicken that lays a limited number of blue eggs. Apparently, it was launched... Read More →

  Forty years ago, Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s documentary film, The Silent Scream, promised/threatened to redefine the discussion of abortion. While Leenart Nilsson’s 1965 Life magazine photo essay had pulled back the uterine veil, Silent Scream, using ultrasound images,... Read More →

  Parents raise children. That isn’t news. But children, in some sense, also raise parents. Children teach adults patience, self-sacrifice, and care. Pope John Paul II taught the importance of the family in nurturing our shared humanity. Everywhere one goes in the world, one... Read More →