If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20) Developments in ultrasonic technology help us to clearly see that an unborn child is a human life deserving our love. Yesterday, on [...]
As I listened, all those years ago, to Rush Limbaugh defend Terry Schiavo's life and all human life, I remember thinking at the time that it was the most eloquent defense of life I had ever heard. Although it was 16 years ago, I remember it vividly. I was driving down I-270 in Maryland toward [...]
By linking it to the great moral issue of slavery, perhaps more people will find their way to the position that abortion too should be put on the road to ultimate extinction. If so, it’s possible that subsequent generations of Americans will come to regard our Stephen Douglas-popular sovereignty Republicans as having been on the [...]
When the law reckons with the matter of life, it inevitably reckons with its own foundation and its own essence. When we attempt to define life in law, in other words, we are necessarily, though implicitly, defining law in an analogous sense at the same time. The background assumption of my brief essay is that [...]
It is the best of times and the worst of times for the pro-life movement. Though the historic Dobbs decision was a great legal victory, the cause for life continues. And it continues in both states that have severely limited abortion and those that have made it a kind of untouchable secular sacrament. The Supreme [...]
Society has been reduced to those living in the present; but in being reduced, it has excluded the democracy of the dead and unborn. We, in the present, must fight for this most obscure of all classes. In the abortion debate, one of the pro-choice arguments is based on the idea of “personhood.” Personhood is [...]
Abortion long ago became a natural symbol for the loss of a spiritual center. Not divine law, but individual will is the measure, and rejecting the child within the body becomes its expression. Challenging Roe v. Wade is not a matter of standing in judgment against women, but of changing a culture of death. With [...]
Not only does the Supreme Court regularly overturn prior precedents, it has established rules for doing so. Here are eight reasons to overturn Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision, The Imaginative Conservative revisits some of its best essays on the topic of human life. With the widespread [...]
Walker Percy's fiction and especially his philosophical essays serve as an antidote to the often facile, shallow, and dishonest propaganda typical of pro-abortion advocacy. They are beautifully written, insightful, entertaining, and not least life-affirming. Walker Percy In January of 1988, fifteen years after Roe v. Wade, Walker Percy, doctor, novelist, philosophical writer, Catholic [...]
An unborn babe Is a thing of beauty, But handled roughly By white-coat clerisy – For them a lump of cells Brimming with utility. […]
Any vaccine that has been derived or developed through or in conjunction with abortion is nothing that the Christian conscience can accept. And it would be a relief if Christians could hear a message of clarity and unwavering orthodoxy on this issue of issues from the leaders of the Church. A death-dealing industry and a [...]
We love God, follow the reason implicit in sexual nature, and consider having children the greatest privilege bestowed on us, the greatest of gifts. Each child is a huge promise, a new world aborning, and I cannot imagine a financial anxiety so serious that it would make anyone think otherwise. In one of the customs [...]
October 2020 is likely to be the month when the birth restrictions in China, which should never have been implemented, are finally abolished. We look to the October Surprise with bated breath. Both DC and Beijing may yet pleasantly surprise everybody. The month of October will be an incredibly important one for the pro-life movement [...]
As a majority of states have rejected the application of capital punishment in certain cases, United States law has moved toward mercy, away from cruelty. Consensus about human dignity and the inception of human life now calls for a similar move at the beginning of life. Just Mercy In his book Just Mercy, attorney Bryan [...]