Marching Toward a Different Future
by George WeigelA post-Roe America will be a country that needs the March for Life as much as ever, and perhaps even more. Continue Reading »
Women of Valor and the Pro-life Cause
by George WeigelErika Bachiochi and many other women of valor helped make that possible by decades of legal and moral commentary that has eviscerated the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott. Continue Reading »
Takeaways from Oral Argument in Dobbs
by Hadley ArkesThe reasoning of jurisprudence is essentially beside the point. For reasons of their own, the judges will do what they wish to do. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousJulia Yost’s wide-ranging and masterly critique of The Body Keeps the Score (“By Our Wounds We Are Healed,” October) is cumulatively devastating. I wonder, though, whether Bessel van der Kolk will even care. As Liberace remarked when similarly challenged, “I cried all the way to . . . . Continue Reading »
On Being Thankful for America at Thanksgiving
by George WeigelAs the Declaration of Independence affirms, we never walk alone, but in the care of the God who gave us life and liberty at the same time. Continue Reading »
The Body is More Than a Tool
by Carl R. TruemanCartesian mind–body dualism undergirds the rhetoric of abortionists. Continue Reading »
Abortion and Class
by Darel E. PaulAmerica’s abortion regime and the absolutist ideology that animates it is part of a war by the powerful on the weak. This is true not only because it targets unborn children in the womb, the most helpless members of our society. It is also true because the regime is sustained by the rich while it . . . . Continue Reading »
The Radical Wrongness of Roe
by Michael Stokes PaulsenIn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right of some human beings to kill other human beings. Specifically, the Court held that the Constitution of the United States creates a substantive individual liberty to procure or perform an abortion of a human . . . . Continue Reading »
Roe Will Go
by Robert P. GeorgeLet me offer a prediction, free of any face-saving hedge: Next year, the Supreme Court will hold that there is no constitutional right to elective abortions. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case pending before the court, it will return the issue to the states for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Family Policy After Roe
by Yuval LevinAfter half a century, the struggle against the cruel and radical abortion regime imposed on our society by the Supreme Court may be nearing its end. The pro-life movement, derided at times as naive even by some who share its goals, may be about to win a great victory for justice by having worked . . . . Continue Reading »
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