“Your Body, My Choice”

  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...
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Taking Back the Women’s Movement: Remarks

When I look out on the pro-choice landscape something about women’s behavior rings false.  It’s so… Butch!  It’s as if abortion is something to claim, plant a flag in and then raise your fist in victory.  Isn’t that a Guy Thing?  It seems the strategy of...
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Barbie—Breaking Through

  One is not likely to think of Barbie as a pro-life film. Its premise is that there is a “Barbieland” ruled by women, an excessively pink world of upbeat and positive people who never age, perfect in skin and attitude. It is not a world of sin and hardship, where people age...
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Feminists and Contraception

  In January 2023, an article by New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott surveyed a striking trend: a growing wave of young women opting out of hormonal birth control. The writer herself is one such malcontent. “Recently, after six years on it, I decided to stop taking the...
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Making Someone Else’s Bed

  On a pack of cigarettes, we see WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy. Some pill bottles read WARNING: Do not drive or operate heavy machinery while taking this product as it may cause drowsiness. Abortion has packaging...
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THE ABOLITION OF WOMAN: HOW RADICAL FEMINISM IS BETRAYING WOMEN

  THE ABOLITION OF WOMAN: HOW RADICAL FEMINISM IS BETRAYING WOMEN Fiorella Nash (Ignatius Press, 2018, 240 pp., softcover, $17.95) Reviewed by W. Ross Blackburn _________________________________________ The abortion movement is built upon a foundation of euphemism,...
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Abortion as We Know It: Call Me Cynical

  Call me cynical, but when I see a young man marching with an “I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose” sign, there’s little doubt in my mind that he probably only supports a woman’s right to choose as long as she’s choosing abortion. What if this earnest lad came home from the...
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