20th Annual Great Defender of Life Dinner Honoring Thomas Brejcha and George McKenna

  Rev. W. Ross Blackburn: Thank you. Let me briefly give the Invocation. I’m always fascinated by that word—to invoke—especially when you think about what it might mean to invoke God. In effect, an invocation is to ask for the help of the Lord, and not only over this...
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

  In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article, published in Newsweek in 1993, I described the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed herself under the influence of the euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward the end of the...
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An Interview with Terrisa Bukovinac: Progressive Pro-Life Activist and Presidential Candidate

  Terrisa Bukovinac, who calls herself a “progressive, pro-life Democrat,” is the founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, as well as a Democratic presidential candidate. Her politics, she says, more or less align with Bernie Sanders’, with one exception: She is...
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A Case for Rescue

  “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin.” —Hebrews 12:4 Rescuers are radical realists. It’s important to state this up front in the prolife movement’s flagship intellectual journal because some ardent, hardworking, frontline...
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Personhood Refutes Legalized Abortion

  The joy experienced after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization refuted and overruled Roe v. Wade was quickly dashed when President Biden promptly deplored the Supreme Court’s decision, a condemnation that leaders from other democratic nations were quick to join:...
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Ill-Informed: Abortion and the Moral Imagination

Abortion is largely a problem of the imagination. That is not to say, of course, that it is an imaginary problem. (That is what pro-abortion people would say.) In fact, in all of human history, more human beings have been killed before birth than after. Abortionists have killed...
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A House Divided

  Millions of Christians in this country take the issue of abortion very seriously, and they have done much to provide moral and spiritual leadership in the pro-life movement. In the years since the Roe v. Wade decision these defenders of life have founded and supported...
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Sing Her to Sleep

    The gentle summer day my friend made her journey from home to hospice was marked by a little parade of loved ones. As the medics carried her to the ambulance, her sisters, husband, and daughter filed out into the sunshine behind her, and for reasons I cannot...
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Walgreens and CVS Will Soon Hand out Abortion Drugs

Biden thanked the pharmacies for making it easier for women to get abortion drugs.
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President Biden on Abortion: Time for Church Discipline?

  Before President Joe Biden delivered the 2024 State of the Union address, the question on the minds of most was, Will the president have the get-up-and-go to complete the speech without a disastrous stumble? His delivery made clear that he indeed had the energy, but...
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