John Grondelski

  One hundred years ago, John Scopes was convicted of violating Tennessee’s ban on teaching evolution. His trial—enshrined in popular mythology as a victory of enlightened science over benighted religion—left more behind than just a courtroom verdict. It helped entrench a... Read More →

  The influential British journal The Economist recently reported good news: it claims that “gendercide” – abortions obtained because prenatal testing indicated the child was the “wrong” sex, is down.  In most instances, “wrong” sex = “girl.” If true, that’s certainly good... Read More →

  The Israeli Supreme Court ruled  May 11 (U.S. Mother’s Day) that motherhood by surrogacy trumps motherhood by genetics in terms of “legal parentage.” Baby Sophia was produced through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and born in 2022.  She was born to a surrogate mother and her... Read More →

  This article previously appeared in AMERICAN THINKER May 4, 2025, here and is used with permission. ___________________________________________________________________________   Lost in Space was a hit sci-fi show when I was growing up, and “Condemned of Space” was... Read More →

  It is amazing how, in the effort to preserve abortion on demand, all reality must now be refracted through a pro-abortion lens. One enormous bit of disinformation being broadly circulated by the legacy media and political partisans of abortion is that pregnancy without the... Read More →

[John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. The following article was published by the National Catholic Register (www.ncregister.com) on January 20, 2025, and is reprinted with... Read More →

  On February 18, an Ohio judge ruled that a Buckeye State law requiring that the remains of aborted unborn children be either interred or cremated violated a (state) constitutional amendment passed in 2023 to protect abortion rights. The law, passed in 2021 after... 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 →

  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 →

  Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman’s new book What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an eye-opening study of the contemporary mindset that regards children today as at best useful goods and at worst positive bads. Published before the controversy over J.D.... Read More →