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How Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (284+ words) The Trump administration's reluctance to act should come as no surprise. Trump committed to ensuring access to the abortion pill in December 2024; JD Vance had voiced the same position months earlier on NBC's Meet the Press. The administration has also…...
When Eugenics Goes Viral
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (116+ words) Nonetheless, the Council of State stated that the video could "disturb the conscience of women who, in accordance with the law, have made personal life choices." The faces of children with Down syndrome were banned from TV, just as they…...
Project Hail Mary's Unresolved Moral Dilemmas
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (86+ words) First Things Charlotte Allen is an arts and culture columnist for Quillette and author of The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus. Three-quarters of a century ago, on April 29, 1951, I was baptized by Fr. Thomas Love, S. J. ," Peter Thiel's…...
Catholic Bishops" Empty Moralizing
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (166+ words) The amicus brief attempts to construct an argument: Persons have a fundamental need to be part of a community; any modification or restriction of birthright citizenship deprives a newborn child of that fundamental need; ergo, such measures violate human dignity....
Frequenting the Frontlines of Life
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday to attend the March for Life in Washington, D. C. Having just spent the last year closely following the daily politics of the capital, I…...
Can Liberals Be Pronatalists?
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (128+ words) After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for Peopleby dean spears and michael gerusosimon and schuster, 320 pages, $29. 99 No one can say when it will occur. All we can know is that that world will be quite different from our…...
Two Pro-Life Goals for 2026
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (325+ words) Yes, the administration has been ostentatious about performing aspects of religiosity. But its top policy priorities have tended not to display any real commitment to the concerns raised by people of faith. Old-guard concerns about the institution of marriage, single…...