By Jonathon Van Maren The commentary surrounding the decision of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government to respond to parental requests and repeal former Kathleen Wynne’s radical sex education curriculum has been predictably infuriating. First, there is NDP leader Andrea Horwath (who has been spurned by the voters of Ontario in her attempts to become premier many…
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By Jonathon Van Maren Earlier this week, South Korea witnessed a stomach-churning protest: 125 women swallowed abortion pills in front of the Bosinga Pavilion in Seoul, with another thirty women joining them to take vitamins to ensure that authorities would not be able to tell which women were taking the abortifacients. Clad unironically in funeral…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It would appear that one university is attempting to actively incur ridicule and take the term “snowflake” to the next level. A prestigious British institution is apparently willing to go to great lengths to ensure that their students feel as safe and cozy as a toddler in a bath towel: A…
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By Jonathon Van Maren China’s brutal One Child Policy may at long last be coming to end, according a report from Reuters earlier this week—and the motivating reason for the change appears to be demographic decline: China, the world’s most populous nation, appears to be setting the stage to end its decades-long policy of determining…
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August 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Last year, I was invited onto my friend Andrew Lawton’s radio show to discuss one of the strangest subjects I’ve ever been asked to address: The rise of so-called “sex robots.” In some countries—most notably Japan—these robots have been perfected to the point of apparently becoming very human-like, and aside from being…
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By Jonathon Van Maren There is something uniquely tragic about abortion. It is a procedure that gruesomely ends the life of a tiny baby, but the ugliness is rarely ever seen. The child was only briefly alive, yet often leaves an enormous absence that intrudes on the peripheries of those who dispatched the little one…
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NOTE: This is an excerpt from Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion by Jonathon Van Maren. It can be purchased here. I first heard of “fetus dreams” in university It was an essay published in a Norton anthology I had to purchase for one of my first university English…
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By Jonathon Van Maren August 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In 2016, Mary Eberstadt’s short, powerful book It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies was released. It is a sweeping analysis, and details the cultural shift that has effectively reduced the once-Christian majority into an increasingly despised minority. To ascribe to the Christian worldview on sexuality,…
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By Jonathon Van Maren August 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As pro-life activists successfully expose the public to the truth about what abortion really does to the bodies of pre-born babies developing in the womb, abortion activists often push back by making an easily disprovable claim that still manages to gain a lot of traction: That abortion victim…
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By Jonathon Van Maren It’s always a reality check to see just how angry progressives in politics and the media get when a rogue politician decides to actually consult with parents and respect the fact that they are the primary guardians of their children. For example, consider the sort of language that iPolitics used in…
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