Ryan T. Anderson

We’re sending the March issue of FT to the printer today, which means things are busy in the office. So, instead of writing something new about what it’s like to work at FT, here’s what I said last year : If you’re a young writer or thinker—finishing your undergraduate . . . . Continue Reading »

“Farming cloned livestock should be banned because the animals suffer too much, EU ethics experts said last night .” Meanwhile, in the USA, there is no restriction—at all—on human cloning, be it for so-called “therapeutic” purposes (i.e. where a human being is . . . . Continue Reading »

And then there’s this. Writing in the L.A. Times , Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman (former president of Catholics for a Free Choice and former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, respectively) read the writing on the wall. They lament: “Twenty years ago, being pro-life was . . . . Continue Reading »

A surprising result of Roe , of course, is the effect it has had on the Catholic American voter. “It would have required a lot of prescience to predict in 1965 that American politics, for so many decades based on economic divisions, would soon split over social issues and, especially, . . . . Continue Reading »

The L.A. Times , too, has an article today about the pro-life youth movement . Three things stood out. The statistics: Today’s students and young adults have grown up in a time when abortion was widely accessible and acceptable, and a striking number are determined to end that era. Pew . . . . Continue Reading »

There is, of course, some good news to report about abortions: today they’re down by 25% when compared to 1990. Advocates of abortion-on-demand will argue that this is due to changing economic realities and increased access to contraception, but not the results of pro-life legislation or . . . . Continue Reading »

As I mentioned earlier , today is the 35th annual March for Life —held on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (and it’s companion case Doe v. Bolton ). Readers might be interested in this interview that First Things board member Robert George did on the legal aspects of Roe . Click on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week I mentioned some of the pro-life events that would be going on in Washington, DC, during the coming weekend and culminating today with the annual March for Life . I forgot to mention the West Coast Walk for Life (which was held over the weekend in San Francisco). You can view some . . . . Continue Reading »

Next Tuesday, January 22, is the 35th annual March for Life . I was fortunate to make it down to D.C. for the march (and the weekend conferences leading up to it) several times when I was a student at Princeton and in the years immediately thereafter. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher Hitchens has a thought-provoking column on these issues in today’s Wall Street Journal . A taste: Here again, the problem is that Sen. Obama wants us to transcend something at the same time he implicitly asks us to give that same something as a reason to vote for him. I must say . . . . Continue Reading »