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The day the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center was announced in June of 2022, I was on a 24-hour shift at my hospital in Indiana, where I work as an obstetric hospitalist, serving women who have been admitted either for labor and delivery or due... Read More →

    A Virginia high school is investigating claims that staffers helped facilitate abortions for two teen girls without their parents’ knowledge. Fairfax County Schools launched the investigation following media reporting on the controversy. However, the whistleblower... Read More →

In September 2013, Pope Francis made international headlines when, in his first major interview as pope, he challenged Catholics to move beyond the culture wars in the way they spoke about abortion. Francis told Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, “We cannot insist only on issues related... Read More →

    Colorado taxpayers should pay for abortions because it is cheaper than Medicaid covering the cost of birth, supporters are arguing. Legislators are currently working on a bill that “requires the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to cover abortion care... Read More →

I have indeed merely assumed that abortion is morally wrong, and have gone from there. But I’ve done this intentionally: as seen above in Section 2, it is commonplace— though not universal—for authors to claim that abortion restrictions are bad for women, and in particular for... Read More →

  At the time of our Lord’s birth, Jews were present in most major cities throughout the known world. This was called the “Diaspora,” which the story of Pentecost refers to in the Book of Acts (2:1-11), where we read that, “Staying in Jerusalem were devout Jews of every... 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 →

  Lauren Handy, the Director of Activism at Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, is serving a 57-month sentence for rescue activities she participated in at a Washington DC late-term abortion clinic in 2020.... Read More →

Nat Hentoff   Veteran journalist Nat Hentoff, our Great Defender of Life honoree in 2005, is a selfprofessed atheist who believes as strongly as fervent religious believers do in the inviolability of human life. In the 1980s Hentoff, a nationally known columnist reporting on... Read More →

  You know Erma Bombeck, and how funny she can be. Millions read her syndicated newspaper column regularly. But sometimes she’s not funny. One of her own favorite columns is reprinted from time to time, when she’s on vacation. Thus, last summer, her fans saw again her sober... Read More →