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Reply from an American to a “Letter from an American”

DOES THE LADY KNOW WHAT SHE’S TALKING ABOUT?

D.D. Desjardins

Abortion was a crime in the extant states in 1868 and in the territories that became states after 1868 and the District of Columbia. Yet later, Roe was called “settled law”?

Engaging the Morally Unconscious Person

AN ANALYSIS OF ANTI-LIFE ATTITUDES

Christopher M. Reilly

The appropriate message for such a person is a stern warning to “Wake up!” reminiscent of Jesus’ dismay at finding His disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The Case for Reviving the Rescue Movement

ON THE NEED FOR PERSONAL INTERPOSITION

Jonathan Darnel

Unlike the invisible, nameless, voiceless, and forgettable preborn child, the rescuer is visible, named, memorable, and possesses a voice.

It’s Time the Church Declared the Personhood of the Unborn

A DOCTRINE BEGGING TO BE DEVELOPED

Monica Migliorino Miller

With our advanced scientific knowledge of fertilization and fetal development, there is really nothing standing in the way of a definitive doctrinal affirmation.

An Amazing Turn

A SHORT STORY

Alex Kudera

She wanted to fly in and meet. At the airport, he was disappointed by how she looked in person. But by that stage in his life, he didn’t think he could do better.

The Pontifical Academy for What?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The Academy for Life’s horizons are so broad that it seems to have lost sight of its mission to promote and defend the Church’s pro-life teachings.

After Dobbs: What’s Next?

PROCLAIMING TRUTH ABOUT JUSTICE & LOVE

James G. Hanink

Our shared vocation as Christians is showing our neighbors that destroying preborn babies cannot be an act of justice, much less of love.

The Eucharistic Theology of Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians

THE AMERICAN CHURCH’S GREATEST CRISIS

Monica Migliorino Miller

Now it is pro-abortion Catholic politicians who are teaching the bishops the meaning of the Eucharist, something as absurd as it is unprecedented.

Why the Modern Democratic State Needs Abortable Children

THE FETUS AS HOMO SACER — PART II

Jason M. Morgan

Liberalism is, in its essence, universal sovereignty premised on the expendability of life inside the individual’s sovereign domain.

The Nowhere Between Life & Death

THE FETUS AS HOMO SACER — PART I

Jason M. Morgan

The unborn exist in a borderland between the shedding of innocent blood and the sacrificing of children so that individual sovereignty remains intact.

Unmasking the Executioner

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

I contend that the state in 2020 has been so corrupted by institutionalized murder that it has no authority to carry out executions of anyone.

Parental Love vs. Loveless “Rights”

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

"Abortion Rights: For and Against" is exceptional in showing with startling clarity how the fight over abortion is really a battle between love and lovelessness.

Gosnell: The Bigger Picture

GUEST COLUMN

Alexandra Wilson

Gosnell’s attorney asks why Gosnell should be convicted of murder in the case of “Baby A” but not in the cases of the countless other babies.

A Pro-Life Pivot?

GUEST COLUMN

F. Douglas Kneibert

Pope Francis’s new appointees to the Pontifical Academy for Life have expanded the pro-life umbrella to include migrants, technology, and the environment.

Briefly: September 2018

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality... The Maternal Face of God?: Explorations in Catholic Sophiology... Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion... An Introduction to Ethics: A Natural Law Approach

Infinity War: A Call to Action

GUEST COLUMN

Alexandra Wilson

The final scene of Infinity War is particularly haunting for millennials; a whole third of our generation has been destroyed by abortion.

The Femi-Swedes' Hijab Détente

Sweden's "first feminist government" sent a delegation to sign a trade deal in Iran, where the women felt compelled to wear headscarves and heavy coats.

Planned Parenthood: Seventy Years of Defying the Law

STAGNATING IN A FETID SWAMP

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

David Goldstein once was a militant socialist who thought life's chief struggle was economic. But he came to realize that "life's battle is primarily a moral battle."

What Goes on Inside the Clinic

The practice of abortion as a Satanic ritual is confirmed in a disturbing interview with a former leader of the Church of Satan.

Consumed by Zeal for the Culture of Death

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

People who run no hospitals and who do nothing to help the world's poor are envious of the Church's works of mercy and aim to persecute her.

How the Pro-Life Movement Became Warm & Cuddly

GUEST COLUMN

Richard Anderson

A new wave of pro-life Catholics reduced the significance of murder of the innocent to just another item in a long list of social issues.

Scenes from Ground Zero of the Abortion Holocaust

MODERN GOLGOTHAS

Alvaro Delgado

In modern-day America, human life is destroyed on a massive scale with the cruel, evil, and machine-like efficiency characteristic of the Nazis.

My Catholic Hospital's Cooperation with Evil

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph E. Kincaid

As more and more institutions offer abortion, sterilization, and contraception, will we just accept them as part of everyday life?

The Prayers of Moloch's Modern Priestesses

Moloch's modern priestesses, who can be found roaming the American halls of power, recast abortion as sacrosanct and inviolable -- a right protected and made possible by the benevolence of an ambiguous deity.

The Modern-Day Little Shop of Horrors

DEHUMANIZATION AT A PROFIT

Judie Brown

In the "reproductive health industry," moral questions are rarely considered when there is money to be made.

Dare We Hope for the Salvation of the Unborn?

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Benson

God's mercy is unfathomable, and He is truly the Good Father who knows how to give what's best to His children.

Too Late Have I Loved You

GUEST COLUMN

John Ballentine

Though I didn’t suffer the physiological consequences of abortion, I couldn’t escape the psychological ones.

How to Change a Culture

The outcome of the pro-life struggle hinges on the legal status of abortion. As long as it remains legal, we're losing; once it's outlawed, we've triumphed.

The Numbers Game

Pro-abortionists love nothing more than to expose any inconsistencies or dishonesties perpetrated by pro-lifers. We've got to maintain hold of the moral high ground.

Is America Becoming More Pro-Life?

If there's a large discrepancy between the number of Americans who identify as pro-life and those who believe abortion should be outlawed, then there's a growing misunderstanding of what it means to be pro-life.

Are All Human Beings Persons?

SOMEONE, SOMETHING, OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN ?

James G. Hanink

"'Person' is not a generic term," writes Robert Spaemann, "it is the way in which individuals of the human genus exist." One's neighbor is unique and non-fungible.

Abortion & the Creed of Progress

GUEST COLUMN

Edmund B. Miller

The creed of progress has destroyed community, the family, and the bond between man and woman, as it has destroyed countless unborn babies.

The Perils of Promoting Personhood

DEEP-SIXED IN THE DEEP SOUTH

James T. McCafferty

Conspicuously absent from a coalition of pro-life advocates supporting a personhood amendment in Mississippi were the bishops of Jackson and Biloxi.

Behind the Mask

The media hype a world population of seven billion, but growth is decelerating and we’ll face a new problem: under-population.

The Rise of the Abortion Party

A PARABLE

James M. Thunder

Suppose that, in the 1960s, several hundred Americans in favor of overturning the conventional prohibitions on abortion established a new political party...

The Virtue of Reverence & Respect for Life

SEEING WITH A PURE HEART

Stephen Napier

Every human being possesses dignity, value, and worth. There are factors that can obfuscate our ability to see their dignity, but it exists whether we see it or not.

The Future Ain't What It Used to Be

Charlotte Allen has made the provocative assertion that the project of Catholic dissent has "lost steam as an intellectual movement."

Global Population Control

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The demand for the "rights" of women, homosexuals, animals, and trees is a front for the goal of regulating human breeding as if we're stockyard animals.

The Road to Hitler Was Paved With Abortions

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The Weimar Republic was distinguished by "the lowest birth rate in the Western world." Contraception was widespread and abortion laws were liberalized.

Abortion Referrals at Catholic Hospitals

COOPERATING IN EVIL

Regis Scanlon

Catholic hospitals and medical personnel are not permitted to assist people, directly or indirectly, in obtaining an abortion, sterilization, or the Plan B pill.

The Five Most Pathetic Words

'I AM A PROCHOICE CATHOLIC'

Patrick Madrid

For the sake of your own immortal soul, and for the sake of the lives of the unborn children your ideology menaces, please rid yourself of this delusion.

Toward a Personhood Amendment

...AND AWAY FROM UNACCEPTABLE EXCEPTIONS

Judie Brown

It is time for us, as individuals and as Catholics, to stand up and be the kind of people who always put faith first.

Where Do We Go From Here?

With the humiliating failures of the prolife cause, it's difficult to see how the 2008 election could not be considered a referendum on abortion.

What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate (Catholic Teaching)

Barack Obama has been billed as the most extreme pro-abortion president ever. Yet 54 percent of Catholics voted for him. How could that be?

A Lesson From the Past

Will Archbishop Niederauer exert the supremacy of the Catholic Church over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi?

As Boston Goes, So Goes the Nation

Dan Flaherty

Lawler's book shows how cultural and social attitudes developed during Boston's "Catholic century" would ultimately lead to decline.

Life, Precious & Precarious

Cardinal Gracias of Bombay condemned all abortions and promised a poor couple that the Church would raise their baby if he were allowed to live.

Wonderful Are Your Works

Every life is valuable in and of itself. Every life is capable of giving glory to God, and therefore every life is worthy of our protection.

Muddier Waters

The U.S. bishops did not intend to suggest that Catholics who vote for a pro-choice candidates are putting their souls in jeopardy.

A Perplexing Political Potpourri

The U.S. bishops have buried the burning political issues of the day under an avalanche of lesser considerations.

Dissecting the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

WHAT WAS BANNED?

Michael Hichborn

Pro-lifers were completely misled by what was at best lip service, but what was in reality a cementing affirmation of the precedent established by Roe.

We Are Grateful That Partial-Birth Abortion Has Been Outlawed, But...

We are grateful that partial-birth abortion has been outlawed, but we recognize that not one baby will be saved by this decision.

Pro-Abortion & Anti-War?

If you are anti-war and pro-abortion, and you won't recognize that you are making war on the unborn, you are not really anti-war.

Not in the Limelight

Jim Holman is a Catholic who knows his money and talents are only a loan, and that he will have to account for them on Judgment Day.

The Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion

THE LAWS HAVE ENDED, BUT THEIR LEGACY LINGERS ON

Frederick N. Dyer

Physicians were largely responsible for the passage of laws to counter an epidemic of induced abortions among married Protestant women.

No Situation Justifies Taking the Life of a Baby in the Womb

If there is universal salvation, then abortion is not an "abominable crime" -- God automatically forgives everything.

Margaret Sanger & 'The New Woman'

HER CAUSE WAS A DIRE NECESSITY

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Margaret Sanger worked to overturn the laws against obscenity, birth control, and abortion mainly because her secret lifestyle made all these things necessary.

Abortion & Muslim Terrorism

GUEST COLUMN

Andy Nowicki

Abortion is far worse than Muslim terrorism for the sheer breadth and scope of the death and devastation it has wrought. But where is the GOP?

The Person & the Court

DRED SCOT & ROE V. WADE

Timothy P. Collins

Precedent is a major component, but the law can become confused and contradictory when an underlying moral question is ignored.

The Fr. Richard Rohr Phenomenon

FOR THE SIMPLE-MINDED

Bryce Sibley

He refers to God as Mother, encourages homosexual advocacy, denies the spiritual reality of Original Sin, and denies the necessity of the Cross for redemption.

A Prolife Semantics Guide

COMING TO TERMS

Ron Galloy

As verbal engineering has preceded today's abortion culture, honest vocabulary is vital to restore life's protection.

The Exception Proves the Rule

LIberals say the cure for abortion is contraception, but more than half of all abortions occur when women have used contraceptives.

The Miers Disaster

Democrats and Republicans alike seemed to agree that Harriet Miers is not an "ideologue" or an "extremist" -- code words for a prolifer.

When It Comes to Abortion, Rationality Goes Out the Window

what is it about abortion that makes rational people suddenly go idiotic?

For Catholic Dissenters, Abortion Is Like Mowing Grass

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The authors say abortion is "like pruning one's rose bush." Pruning a rosebush makes it bloom more abundantly. But when one aborts a child, does her capacity to grow improve?

Abortion & the Golden Rule

GUEST COLUMN

Philip Reed Moran

Abortion advocates can't claim for women the right to abortion — as they do — but with the exception of their own mamas. That's a double standard.

Chastity & the Prolife Movement

PROMISCUITY IS THE BASIC CAUSE OF ABORTION

Mattei Radu

The prolife movement of the 21st century must adopt chastity as the fifth pillar of advocacy for preborn children.

The Wages of Roe v. Wade

GUEST COLUMN

Geoffrey Henderson

Shakespeare showed what murder does to murderers. We, too, can examine what abortion has done to abortionists and the mothers and fathers of those killed.

Bishop Weigand's "Bait & Switch"

FORGET CANON 915?

James Buckley

The bishop of Sacramento admonished Governor Davis for his pro-abortion stance, but he would not follow his admonition with denying him Communion.

A Purely Secular Argument Against Abortion

IT'S JUST COMMON SENSE

George D. Mullen

Because the question of when life begins has a true answer, opinions have no bearing or influence upon what that “truth” is — yet people erroneously act as if it does.

Demography Is Destiny: Babies Trump Bombs in the End

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas Basil

Osama bin Laden was the 17th born in his family. America has the bombs, but the Muslims have the babies. Military power can’t hold off people power.

Bring Back the Pictures

GUEST COLUMN

Barbara Kralis

Pictures of aborted babies depict a gruesome reality, and that's precisely why Americans need to see them — see them often.

A Brief, Air-Tight Argument Against Abortion

WITHOUT APPEALING TO RELIGION

Eugene Hoyas

My opposition has nothing to do with the Bible or the Church; it is based squarely upon biological science and the political principles upon which our government was founded.

Weaving the Tangled Web

THE TYRANNY OF THE SUPREME COURT

Joseph Collison

A great irony of history is that in Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court announced its adherence to a prescientific concept of fetal life.

For Dear Life

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Greer Cohn

During in utero fetal surgery, the unborn infant stretched out its little hand and clutched the finger of the surgeon.

Woe to the Bloody City!

THE HARVEST OF INNOCENTS

Joseph Collison

“Find out how you can turn your patient’s decision into something wonderful” reads a brochure sent to abortionists by a fetal tissue “wholesaler.”

Abortion in America: Legal & Unsafe

GRIM HARVEST FOR WOMEN

Joseph Collison

Unwanted Children? Disposable as Last Sunday's Paper

"The birth of every wanted child represents an act of faith...", say what?

From Abortion to Family Breakdown & Child Abuse

GUEST COLUMN

Joseph Collison

With today’s lax morals, children witness loose, impermanent, and immature relationships among the adults on whom they depend.

News Too Good to Be True

Is Baby Doe an irreplaceable historical landmark? Why, yes.

The Bishops' New Statement on Abortion

WHY IT ISN'T ACCOMPLISHING MUCH OF ANYTHING

Raymond B. Marcin

Ritualizing Abortion

OLD DEITIES, NEW SACRAMENT

W.A. Borst

To those who would invoke old gods at their convenience and choose human sacrifices for them: Be careful what god you pray to.

The Looming Civil War Over Abortion

A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND

Benjamin D. Wiker

Either Christianity will rebaptize the heart of the nation or secularism will drive out Christianity, but one or the other will be victorious.

Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas Today

"DECREASE THE SURPLUS POPULATION"

Lawrence D. Hogan

Scrooge stated, “Let those poor go to the prisons and the Union workhouses. And if they’d rather die, they had better do it."

When Abortion Discriminates

GUEST COLUMN

Preston Jones

Why is it wrong to abort unborn female babies because they are female, and not wrong to abort those who just happen to be female?

The Least of the Least of Our Brethren

THE NEW KILLING FIELDS

Jeffrey Ziegler

How can we convert this culture of death? Through education, public action, pastoral leadership — and faith.

A Woman's 'Right to Choose' Is a Woman's Right to Lose

WOMEN AS RENTAL CARS

Carol Crossed

Childhood hunger, single motherhood, and other problems that proponents of abortion claimed would be solved by abortion have only gotten worse.

You're an "Unborn Baby" if She Wants You, a "Terminated Fetus" if She Doesn't

DOUBLE TALK & DOUBLE STANDARDS

Brian Kurzhal

Time to Communicate What Catholicism Is & Is Not

EXCOMMUNICATION IS A NECESSARY FORM OF COMMUNICATION

Juli Loesch Wiley

Do you renounce Amerigod? Do you renounce the Spirit of Feelgood, the Motherfather, the Genderblender gods, and all their empty promises?

The Rose vs. the Venus Fly-Trap

Luis R. Gamez

Review of When Life and Choice Collide: Essays on Rhetoric and Abortion

What the Holocaust & Abortion Have in Common

DEFINING HUMAN BEINGS AS 'SUBHUMAN PARASITES'

William Brennan

Trapped In the Rhetoric of ‘Choice’

Patricia Wesley

A survey of 1,800 pro-life pregnancy centers found boyfriends and mothers are often the most vigorous promoters of abortion.

A “Pro-Choicer’s” Explicit No to Life

Laura Garcia

Review of Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn

America's Children Are in Jeopardy

CHILDHOOD BETRAYED — A PERSONALIST ANALYSIS

James G. Hanink

Suggesting that the very young, born or pre­born, are not persons is exclusivist. It makes the betrayal of children almost morally palatable.

Raymond Carver's Heart & Soul

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Joan Andrews's Stubborn Challenge to Prolifers

WHY, IN THE FACE OF EVIL, DO GOOD PEOPLE LOOK THE OTHER WAY?

Michael Gallagher

Fundamentalists and Abortion

HOW STRONG A PRO-LIFE STANCE DOES 'SCRIPTURE ALONE' YIELD?

Gary Crum

Times Square Journal: If 'My Body Is My Own,' Why Not Sell It?

GUEST COLUMN

Edmund B. Miller

The New Right & the Pro-life Movement: How Solid is the Marriage?

ON THE RIGHT WING’S “SEAMLESS GARMENT”

Stephen Settle

March for Life organizer Nellie Gray had little patience with those who would solicit pro-life support simply to boost the bomb, bolster corporate profits, or get fluoride out of the water.

Surveillance of the Unborn: A Human Rights Issue

GUEST COLUMN

Marika Wilson Smith

While the March of Dimes may do valuable work toward helping conquer birth defects, other unborn handicapped children are denied life because of its support of prenatal testing.

The Seamless Garment in a Fragmented World

WHAT THE CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE IS & IS NOT

Richard Doerflinger

The consistent ethic does not demand that everyone become a dilettante who dabbles a bit in every political issue involving human life.

The Conflict Between Civil Piety & the Right to Life

THE RADICAL IMPLICATIONS OF BEING ANTI-ABORTION

Stephen Settle & John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe

America is in desperate need of hard love. Whether or not pro-lifers are adequate to the task of provid­ing it only they themselves can answer.

A Chestertonian Adrift in an Ideological World

CONFESSIONS OF AN APOSTATE

Christopher Derrick

If you favor the cause of orthodoxy or tradition in Catholic faith and morals, you should break the close link that exists between that cause and the cause of the political Right.

Evangelical Protestant Leaders Look at Abortion

A SURPRISING AMBIVALENCE

Franky Schaeffer

A quality of life ethic tries to decide for others who can have a relationship with God and who cannot, who is or is not created in the image of God.

Further Thoughts on Abortion

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

A poor woman I knew regarded herself, when pregnant, as the recipient of a gift from God. For me, the matter was at once abstract and circumstantial.

Six-Day Fast for Life at an Abortion Clinic

“YOUR KIND NEVER CARES ABOUT WAR”

Juli Loesch

To women and men alike, just passing by or going into the clinic, I’d repeat my 22-second message with no nuance. You come quickly to the point. You have to.

Beyond “Left” & “Right”

ABORTION & NUCLEAR WAR

Peter Kreeft

How can we honestly ask God to re­move the scourge of abortion from our land when we are prepared to abort entire other countries with nuclear fire and brimstone?

The Consistent Pro-life Ethic

INTEGRAL TO PRO-LIFE SUCCESS

Bernard F. Law

The prophet gives words that echo an understanding of the heart. He understands the tragic situation and speaks of comfort, solace, hope, and then begins to help.

Stirring Things Up in Western Europe

AN UNUSUAL PRO-LIFE/PEACE JOURNEY

Juli Loesch

Many peace & anti-abortion advocates find themselves on opposite ends of the political spectrum. In the U.S. and Western Europe, stirring up the desire for reconciliation is a crucial task.

Anti-Abortion Atheist Doctor

Francis Canavan

Ex-abortionist Dr. Nathanson refers to “permissive abortion” as a “crime” and “an unmitigated evil."

The Seamless Garment

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

How can good-hearted people, whose hearts bleed for peace and for poor people, not feel the excruciating pain of the child who is de­stroyed in the womb?

Teenage Pregnancy: A Moral Matter

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Young women also are spiritually hungry for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, for something or someone to believe in, for moral direction.

Abortion as “Growth Experience”

Dave Andrusko

Almost all abortion ideologues refuse to address the core question: Is the unborn child a fellow member of the human family, one to whom we owe love, life, and justice?

The Return of Socrates

John F. Maguire

One’s heart can be too hardened to participate in dialogue; today’s Hero­dian slaughter of the innocents involves something more than intellectual blindness.

Failed Exposé

Juli Loesch

The author proves that rich fundamentalists give to fundamentalism, and rich Rightists give to the Right. A real eye-opener, for sure.

On Abortion

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In one way or another, through greed and aggressive manipula­tions and callousness and self-serving rationaliza­tions, we shun our obligations to others.

Abortion: The Hard Cases

WHAT IS THE COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE?

Jacqueline R. Kasun

It is as proper for Christians to work for laws to protect the unborn as to support and work for laws against water pollu­tion and kidnapping.

The Mansour & Kosnik Cases

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock