John Grondelski

  Pro-lifers may be depressed in the wake of the 2023 off-year legislative elections. The worst defeat was Ohio: Enacting a state constitutional amendment enshrining abortion-on-demand through birth profoundly changes the pro-life dynamics of the state, barring the... Read More →

A MONTH AHEAD OF ELECTIONS …. By the time you read this, November elections will be less than a month away.  A year ahead of presidential elections, 2023 may not attract the attention elections usually do.  But failing to pay attention to them would be a fatal mistake for... Read More →

    South Dakota is the latest focus of the juggernaut trying to use initiative-and-referendum to pass a state constitutional amendment legalizing abortion-on-demand.  Like Arizona, pro-abortion forces in South Dakota are aiming to put the amendment on the November 2024... Read More →

    Pro-abortion groups in Arizona are aiming to write abortion into the Grand Canyon’s state constitution, loosely following playbooks already employed in Michigan, Vermont, and California and underway for this fall in Ohio. “Arizona for Abortion Access,”  a... Read More →

  James Lane Buckley died August 18, having passed his 100th birthday last March. The soft-spoken Buckley catapulted to national prominence in November 1970 when, against expectations, he won a U.S. Senate seat from New York on the Conservative Party line, beating out a pair... Read More →

    The defeat August 8 of Issue 1 (raising requirements for approval of referendum-initiated state constitutional amendments) will make Ohio pro-lifers’ work to defeat a radical pro-abortion amendment to their state constitution on the November 7 ballot that much... Read More →

    Ohio pro-lifers are working to get out the “yes” vote ahead of a special referendum August 8 on requirements for amending the State Constitution. The Buckeye State is one of those states that, in the heyday of early 20th century Progressivism, adopted “initiative... Read More →

    As we mark the first anniversary of Dobbs, it’s important to prepare for this fall’s off-year elections. Roe caught pro-lifers off-guard in 1973 because, prior to that decision, abortion policy had been fought out almost exclusively at the state level. Roe suddenly... Read More →

    June 19 is Father’s Day. It will be the first Father’s Day in nearly fifty years when states have not been constrained by Roe v. Wade (and its progeny) from protecting fathers’ rights. Few remember that the 1973 Roe decision legalizing abortion represented such a... Read More →

  Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas (Crossway, 2023, 512 pp., $39.95) Reviewed by John Grondelski _________________________________________________________________________ Ecclesiastes advises that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas show that much... Read More →