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Abortion Pills Head to the Supreme Court

Jonathon Van Maren

Two judicial rulings over mifepristone this month have set the stage for the most important legal battle over abortion since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022—and the...

A Win for Christian Counselors and Religious Liberty

Jonathon Van Maren

In a resounding victory for religious liberty on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8–1 in Chiles v. Salazar in favor of a Christian counselor and against Colorado’s “conversion...

The Photo They Don’t Want You to See

Jonathon Van Maren

The photo is haunting: A tiny baby boy, his minute legs pulled toward his visibly ribbed chest, one hand resting on his bottom, the other pulled up to his...

The Great Christian Reset

Jonathon Van Maren

If it is true that social shifts begin first among the elites, something may be stirring in the West. While taking questions at an appearance at the MacDonald–Laurier Institute...

Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry

Jonathon Van Maren

On November 27, 2023, thirty-six-year-old Alissa Golob walked through the doors of the Cabbagetown Women’s Clinic in Toronto, Canada. She had two young children at home, $2,137 in her...

The Collapse of Trans Identification

Jonathon Van Maren

After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum—in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school...

The Inkling Who Fought Abortion

Jonathon Van Maren

Earlier this autumn, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford the day before I delivered two lectures at the national conference for the Society for the Protection of Unborn...

As Long as You’re Living

Jonathon Van Maren

I first heard Robert Munsch in second grade. Our teacher read his 1986 classic Love You Forever to our class, and like almost everyone who heard the story as...

The Fight to Stop Euthanasia for Mental Illness

Jonathon Van Maren

In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle’s worth of pills in a public bathroom. His depression had become unbearable. Thankfully, he failed, and after weeks...

The Shifting Narrative Around Pornography

Jonathon Van Maren

There has been a fundamental shift in the public debate on pornography over the past decade. In 2017, I took the affirmative side in a radio debate with a...

Andrew Tate and Conservative Hypocrisy

Jonathon Van Maren

On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) lifted their two-year travel ban due to outstanding charges...

IVF Is Not Pro-Family

Jonathon Van Maren

Donald Trump made good on his promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) on February 18, signing an executive order that “directs policy recommendations to protect IVF...

America’s Cross-Border Abortion War

Jonathon Van Maren

The United States has been deeply divided on abortion for decades, but since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, those divides have deepened as differing legal regimes emerge across...

An Unmerry Hitchmas

Jonathon Van Maren

On December 14, Atheism UK and the Origins Project Foundation hosted a “Merry Hitchmas” event at the Royal Geographical Society in London to commemorate the life of atheist journalist...

James Herriot’s Son Condemns Starmer’s Assault on Farms

Jonathon Van Maren

If James Herriot was alive now, he would be horrified by what this prime minister is doing. I’m speaking for him, really,” Jim Wight told me. As the son...