Category

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.... Read More →

  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... Read More →

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... Read More →

  “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... Read More →

  On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,1 overturned its half-century-old Roe v. Wade decision,2 and the pro-life movement rejoiced. Remarkably, however, what the Court in Roe v. Wade had regarded as the... Read More →

  In recent years I have been involved in an academic debate over the comfort women. “Comfort women” is a direct—and too-literal—translation of ianfu (慰安婦), a euphemistic Japanese term meaning a woman (fu) who provides ian, something which might best be expressed in English... Read More →

309.89 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder The stressor producing this syndrome would be markedly stressing to almost anyone, and is usually experienced with intense fear, terror and helplessness. The characteristic symptoms involve reexperiencing the traumatic event, avoidance of... Read More →

  My world turned upside down in mid-2021, when—in the midst of a pandemic—I welcomed my second baby in two years. Our brood doubled in size from two kids to four, and a lot changed in our home. For one, our cat was displeased with the new young people and went so far as to... Read More →

  “Herein lies wisdom, beauty and increase; Without this folly, age and cold decay” —Shakespeare, Sonnet 11 I In King Lear, Shakespeare sets the scene for what will be his anatomy of a society descending into moral chaos by having his Duke of Gloucester speak of his... Read More →

  At a time when women are encouraged to “shout your abortion,” it’s no surprise that even religious leaders of a certain stripe will try to work pro-abortion messages into the church calendar. A legal challenge to Texas’s new abortion restrictions made its way into the... Read More →