By Jonathon Van Maren A round-up of a few of the latest developments: *** The Daily Beast is reporting that New York City is set to allow a gender-neutral option on birth certificates, a policy that does not appear to be thought through: A new bill in New York City will soon allow non-binary people born in…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the most fascinating aspects of the transgender movement’s meteoric rise over the past half-dozen years is the increasingly overt hostility between old guard feminists and transgender activists. Veteran sexual revolutionaries like Germaine Greer have been “de-platformed” and protested for stating that biological males identifying…
By Jonathon Van Maren September 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Shortly after forming government, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals announced that the Office of Religious Freedom, set up by the Harper Government to defend religious liberty around the world, would be closed down. It was an unnecessary project, they contended—and their contempt for freedom of conscience over the next several…
By Jonathon Van Maren Alberta’s NDP government has made the next move against religious schools in the province—and this time, they’ve dropped any pretence that their ongoing attacks on religious schools are anything short of crass bigotry. At the end of August, Education Minister David Eggen announced that funding would be pulled from Christian schools…
By Jonathon Van Maren Good news out of Louisiana—another pro-life law has been upheld. From the National Post: A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that a Louisiana law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals does not violate women’s constitutional abortion rights. The 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is a matter of fact that sometimes, babies that are being aborted manage to survive and are born alive—and that when this happens, they are often left to die. I have interviewed both survivors of abortion who are part of a miniscule number of people who survived a procedure specifically…
By Jonathon Van Maren In Douglas Murray’s seminal work The Strange Death of Europe, he describes a civilization that has lost confidence in itself. These days, a brief survey of the news seems to confirm that succinct analysis time and again. A few examples caught my eye over the past week. In France, a court…
By Jonathon Van Maren Kathleen Clubb is the mother of thirteen children, one of Australia’s most prominent pro-life activists—and she homeschools, to boot. Last year, The Australian recently reported, Clubb became “the first person to be convicted under abortion protest laws in Victoria, which will play in what may become one of the most important…
By Jonathon Van Maren Like many others, I have been watching the recent series of conversations between Dr. Jordan Peterson, famous atheist Sam Harris, and British journalist Douglas Murray with great interest. On stages in Vancouver, Dublin, and London, they have discussed many of the 21st century’s most important questions: What must we do about…
Irish pro-life activist Tim Jackson joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss what’s next for the Republic and Northern Ireland–and Irish pro-life warriors deliver some of the greatest speeches in decades at a rally in Belfast.