INTRODUCTION Spring 2024

    “The problems of our world,” says William Murchison, “have edges, angles, pull-outs, protrusions, and rusty nails sticking out everywhere.” In “IVF: The Next Battlefield,” our senior editor ponders the Alabama Supreme Court’s “out-of-nowhere” pronouncement last...
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A Letter to the Women’s Lobby

  [First reprinted in our Spring 1978 issue, Clare Boothe Luce’s “Letter to the Women’s Lobby” was an explanation as to why, after decades advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, she was dismayed that its passage was being jeopardized by the abortion lobby. This letter...
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Sing Her to Sleep

    The gentle summer day my friend made her journey from home to hospice was marked by a little parade of loved ones. As the medics carried her to the ambulance, her sisters, husband, and daughter filed out into the sunshine behind her, and for reasons I cannot...
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Where There’s a Will There’s a Way

  The only thing I find even creepier than the women at abortion rights rallies whose faces are so distorted with rage they look like fugitives from a de Kooning painting are the ones who link arms and virtually dance the Irish jig because they’ve succeeded in enshrining...
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Similar Indifferences

  The 2023 cinematic production The Zone of Interest won an Academy Award last month for Best International Feature Film. This powerful movie focuses on Schutzstaffel (SS) lieutenant colonel Rudolf Höss during his time as commandant of Auschwitz, the sprawling Nazi...
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WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL

    Directed by Diane Paulus and Brett Sullivan Music by Sara Bareilles Reviewed by Isabelle Flood __________________________________________ In a culture that believes abortion is necessary and empowering for women, it’s refreshing to find a mainstream story that...
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PUSHING ROE V. WADE OVER THE BRINK: THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S HEART, THE HUMAN RIGHT TO LIFE, AND A FUTURE FULL OF HOPE

Clarke D. Forsythe and Alexandra DeSanctis (Americans United for Life, hardcover, 324 pages, $19.95, PB $14.95) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________________________ The history of U.S. pro-life activism is woefully under-documented....
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New York’s Dangerous ERA Proposal

  Note from Maria Maffucci, Editor in Chief: The following is my summary of a fully-cited legal analysis of New York’s proposed ERA Amendment, written by Donald P. Berens, Jr., a retired attorney and former New York State government lawyer. Please click here to read the...
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Recent Developments on State Constitutions and Abortion: An Interview with Paul Benjamin Linton

Mr. Linton: Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, there is no longer a federal constitutional right to abortion. Abortion advocates, therefore, have turned to state constitutions in an attempt to establish a constitutional right to abortion at the state level that would...
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Masters of Misperception

  “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I first read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln many years ago, and was...
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