Who Cares about Britney Spears?

    [Marvin Olasky is the co-author (with Leah Savas) of The Story of Abortion in America: A Street Level History, 1652-2022. The following was first published on the Human Life Review’s website.] Why should pro-life people care about singer/sex symbol Britney Spears?...
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Who Cares about Britney Spears?

  Why should pro-life people care about singer/sex symbol Britney Spears? Sure, her memoir The Woman in Me sold 2.4 million copies last fall in its first week of release. Sure, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she placed first in a poll...
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Symposium: Where Do We Go from Dobbs?

    This October we will hold our 20th Great Defender of Life dinner, and soon after commence celebrating our 50th anniversary year. We are grateful to have outlived Roe, but the question today is: Where does the pro-life movement go from here? While saving unborn...
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What’s Said and What’s True

  Readers of the New Testament are familiar with one way Jesus and later Paul explained to their listeners and readers the difference between what evildoers argue and what is true: “It is written.” For example, when Satan asked Jesus to turn stones into bread (chapter four...
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Abortion and Law before Roe v. Wade

  As I’ve shown in previous writing and am now researching further, abortion in colonial America was rare, and its illegality uncontroversial. Popular books carried a pro-life message. One, written by a person who called himself “Aristotle,” instructed midwives to refuse “to...
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GREAT DEFENDER OF LIFE DINNER 2021

  OCTOBER 7, 2021 HONORING MARGARET COLIN AND MARVIN OLASKY __________________________________________________ Marvin Olasky: Thank you, David. I will treasure being called a Great Defender of Life, even though the great is an exaggeration. Back in 1990 I profiled two great...
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