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The Collapse of Trans Identification
After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrumโin 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school...
The Inkling Who Fought Abortion
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 Youโre Living
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
In 2010, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Lawton attempted suicide by swallowing a bottleโs worth of pills in a public bathroom. His depression had become unbearable. Thankfully, he failed, and after weeks...
The Shifting Narrative Around Pornography
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
On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romaniaโs Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) lifted their two-year travel ban due to outstanding charges...
IVF Is Not Pro-Family
Donald Trump made good on his promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) on February 18, signing an executive order that โdirects policy recommendations to protect IVF...
Americaโs Cross-Border Abortion War
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
On December 14, Atheism UK and the Origins Project Foundation hosted a โMerry Hitchmasโ event at the Royal Geographical Society in London to commemorate the life of atheist journalist...
James Herriotโs Son Condemns Starmerโs Assault on Farms
If James Herriot was alive now, he would be horrified by what this prime minister is doing. Iโm speaking for him, really,โ Jim Wight told me. As the son...
Trump Responds to Pro-Life Pressure
Donald J. Trumpโs ongoing betrayal of the pro-life movement has ignited a fierce debate on the right. While some pro-life leaders are calling on the Trump-Vance campaign to reverse...
Is the Republican Party Becoming Pro-Choice?
The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for the first time in forty years, this platform does not include support...
The GOP Changes Its Tune on Abortion
In 2017, Kellyanne Conway took the stage at the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., to tell the gathered crowd of thousands that she was โa mother, a...
What I Saw At Corrie Ten Boomโs Hiding Place
The Watchmaker’s Daughter:The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boomby larry loftis william morrow, 384 pages, $16.49 Eighty years ago, on February 28, 1944, the Nazis...
Farewell to a Pro-Life Hero
Florida’s most notorious abortion clinic is located at 1103 Lucerne Terrace in downtown Orlando. On the sidewalk directly in front of this clinic, the Orlando Womenโs Center, there are...