True and False Abortion History: It’s not true that abortion was unregulated in America before 1821

    This article originally appeared in The New Oxford Review, April 11, 2024, and is reprinted with permission. __________________________________________________________________ Much wailing and gnashing of teeth followed the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent upholding...
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A Double NEWSworthy for your Friday! Kokx and Grondelski have two complementary pieces.

  Click to Read: An Abortion Puzzlement by John Grondelski (reprinted with permission from the New Oxford Review) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Read Below: NEWSworthy: YouTube Spreads Abortion Pill...
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Prenatal Lives Count … At Least Sometimes

This article previously appeared in AMERICAN THINKER March 23, 2024, here (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/prenatal_lives_count_at_least_sometimes.html?ref=confidentialdaily.com ) and used with permission....
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Embryos, Injuries, and Damages

  This piece originally appeared in Catholic World Report February 24, 2024, and is reposted here with permission.   Falsehoods about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF) deserve refutation. We also need a close examination of the...
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TO DIE WELL: A CATHOLIC NEUROSURGEON’S GUIDE TO THE END OF LIFE by Stephen E. Doran

Stephen E. Doran (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2023, paperback, 219 pp.) Reviewed by John M. Grondelski _____________________________________________________ Writing about how people died alone during the Covid pandemic, Stephen E. Doran cites Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), a...
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Don’t Lose Pro-Life History

  Since Dobbs was handed down a veritable cottage industry in pro-abortion books has emerged, especially among academic presses, the intellectual gatekeepers concerning what’s considered important scholarship. I remember both Rutgers University Press and the University of...
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2024’s Prolife Marching Orders

  This year’s March for Life—the 50th—occurs Friday. Half a century ago, attorney Nellie Gray was convinced the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade could not go by unmarked by prolife protest. On a shoestring budget, a wing and a prayer, she assembled the first March January...
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The Low Cost of (Some) Labor in Michigan

    Democrats hype themselves as friends of workers and of labor.  But there’s one case—in Michigan of all places!—where they seem ready to favor labor at below minimum-wage rules. In fact, they have no labor rules at all. I’m talking about the labor connected with...
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Virginia Democrats Propose Abortion-On-Demand Amendment

  Virginia lawmakers have introduced radical legislation on abortion. Next month, members of the General Assembly are set to consider the establishment of a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” in the state constitution. Contributor to Human Life Review John...
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How Pro-lifers Can Prepare for 2024

  Pro-lifers may be depressed in the wake of the 2023 off-year legislative elections. The worst defeat was Ohio: Enacting a state constitutional amendment enshrining abortion-on-demand through birth profoundly changes the pro-life dynamics of the state, barring the...
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