By Jonathon Van Maren Justin Trudeau, who presides over the only democracy in the Western world with no abortion restrictions whatsoever, decided to utilize this bully pulpit of fetal corpses to rebuke certain American states for recognizing what science and embryology already tell us: That the baby developing in the womb of his or her…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is always amusing to me that Canadian left-wingers enjoy referring to Stephen Harper as an arch-conservative, a man so right-wing his very name is apparently supposed to send shivers down the progressive spine. In reality, his primary impact on the political landscape was one progressives should be thanking him for.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone who thought the abortion debate in America was going away has been sadly mistaken. It shaped the 2016 election, will probably shape the 2020 election, and the barrage of pro-life laws passing across the United States has been virtually nonstop. Pro-lifers are testing the waters, pushing to see if this…
While I must admit that I have no interest whatsoever in professional sports, the invasion of biological men identifying as so-called “trans women” into female sporting events has provided us with an interesting microcosm of the ongoing debate about whether or not a biological man can, in fact, be a female. The answer to that…
By Jonathon Van Maren In a tweet sent out on the afternoon of May 11, abortion activist and erstwhile actress Alyssa Milano sent the entire pro-life movement into side-splitting gales of laughter with her new strategy for battling the conveyor belt of anti-abortion legislation that has been passing across the United States this year: a “sex strike”…
By Jonathon Van Maren Buzzfeed News recently published the fascinating (and still unfolding) story of Katie McHugh, a one-time conservative gadfly who wrote for the Daily Caller and other right-wing publications before becoming so embedded in the alt-right she managed to get canned from Breitbart in 2017. I found it particularly interesting because McHugh went…
Over at The Spectator, James Kirkup published a long-form analysis of why transgender rights are eliminating women’s rights by destroying any objective definition of what it means to be a woman in the first place. (Can you think of anything more “patriarchal” than women’s records in sports being held by biological men?) He cites one…
By Jonathon Van Maren When I spotted the headline in the Charlotte Observer earlier this week, I had to do a double-take: “The man in the maternity ward,” it read. The tenderly written story, framed as a beautiful human interest piece, begins like this: Liam Johns steps inside the ultrasound clinic and looks around. He’s relieved the waiting room…
By Jonathon Van Maren Across the country yesterday, Canadians marched to mourn fifty years of legal abortion and to renew our collective commitment to fight on. Nearly 10,000 people marched on Parliament Hill, triggering a new round of fervent declarations of support for abortion from Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Four hundred more rallied at Queen’s Park…