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  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 →

  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 →

  The US presidential election galvanised Ireland almost as much as America. That wasn’t just because of familial ties between the countries or the fact that Ireland’s current prosperity is in no small part due to American corporate behemoths located here, but because the... Read More →

  I remember visiting my future wife in her Manhattan office back in the pre-Y2K dark ages, when style guides instructed us to capitalize the words Internet and Website. Working for a tech startup that recruited programmers for other tech startups that were busy adding two... Read More →

  Jesus, born in a barn amongst the heaving, dank breath of livestock, raised poor in a bad town (Can anything good come out of Nazareth? John 1:46), who unjudgmentally lent a shoulder to corrupt tax collectors, the poor dregs of society, and adulterous women (pointing out... 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 →

  What should I say to a young woman who enters my classroom wearing a t-shirt that reads: “I am a Proud Member of the Pro-choice Generation”? Perhaps my response should be relegated to the realm of the imagination, which neither offends nor upsets. Furthermore, I owe it to my... Read More →

  Shortly after the recent US presidential election, “your body, my choice” began trending up in online discourse. The sentiment is vile. Those who repeat it, or post memes emblazoned with the phrase, do so to threaten women. The meaning of the four-word taunt is clear: “I... Read More →